Individual Compensation (Chief executives &/or 5 top-paid staff & consultants)

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Nonprofit chief executive salaries rose 4.3% in fiscal 2002,
according to a national survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and
senior manager and fundraiser salaries rose 7% to 10%, according to
a survey of New York City charities conducted by Professionals for
NonProfits–but Giving USA reported that the increase in public
giving in 2002 fell below the rate of inflation for the first time in
12 years.
Salaries for other staff increased only 3% to 5%,
Professionals for NonProfits found.
The Pay column below combines salaries, benefit plan
contributions (if any), and expense accounts for the few individuals
who are not required to itemize expenses. Individual independent
contractors such as attorneys, accountants, and consultants are
listed as well as directors and regular staff.

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Starting on page 15 is our 14th annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related
charities, plus miscellaneous local activist groups, humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad. We offer their
data for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated in U.S.
dollars at average 2002 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by what
they do and stand for: A for advocacy, C for conservation of
habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting,
I for supporting the eradication of “invasive” feral or non-native
species, L for litigation, N for neutering, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance or sterilization project, U for
favoring either “sustainable” or aboriginal lethal use of wildlife,
and V for focus on vivisection.

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition, opposition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Budgets, Programs, Assets, & Overhead of Eight Opposition Organizations

Americans for Medical Progress
TYPE: AEV
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 493,932
EXPENDITURES: $ 495,541
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 329,150
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 166,391
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 34%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 34%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 91,980
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ 8,266
CASH & SECURITIES: $ 89,409

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Advocates for Animals (Scotland)
TYPE: AE
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 506.092
EXPENDITURES: $ 199,426
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 157,791
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 41,635
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 21%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 21%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 1,109,373
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ [none] CASH & SECURITIES: $ 1,109,373

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BOOKS: Hawk’s Rest

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Hawk’s Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson
National Geographic Adventure Press (1145 17th St., N.W.,
Washington, DC 20036), 2003. 240 pages, paperback. $15.00.

Hawk’s Rest is not about birds, but the joys and trials of
living in wilderness. Here on nine million acres deep in Yellowstone
National Park, granite turrets rise 2,000 feet into the air, giant
boulders tumble into deep gorges, and ice forms endless lakes.
Yellowstone Lake, covering 136 square miles, can switch in minutes
from calm to waves thrashing five to six feet high. According to
park historian Lee Whittlesy, no body of water in the park and
perhaps in all of the U.S. is more dangerous. The water averages 45
degrees Fahrenheit, which gives swimmers about 20 minutes before
they must get ashore.

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Animal obituaries

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Kin, 36, the last wild crested ibis to hatch in Japan, on
October 10 hurled herself headfirst into a door at the Sado Crested
Ibis Preservation Center, 190 miles northwest of Tokyo, and died of
a brain hemorrhage. Removed from the wild in 1968 for captive
breeding, Kin never produced offspring, and had been the last
wild-hatched crested ibis in Japan since her mate Midori died in
1995. Hunted to the verge of extinction, crested ibises won legal
protection in 1934. In 1999 the Sado Center received a pair of
crested ibises as a gift from former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
The Chinese crested ibises have now fledged 21 offspring, some of
whom are to be reintroduced to the wild in 2007.

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Obituaries

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Virginia Gillas, 82, died on October 5 in Hermitage,
Missouri, after an 8-year battle with lung cancer. Born in Orange,
New Jersey, raised in Kansas City, Gillas was daughter of Catherine
Basett Cornwell, R.N., longtime president of the Dade County Branch
of the Florida League for Humane Progress.
Gillas herself began helping animals at about age 12, she
told ANIMAL PEOPLE in 1995, recalling that she first saw animal
hoarding about five years later, when she met a girl her own age who
had accumulated an impossible number of cats.

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Roadkills of cats fall 90% in 10 years –are feral cats on their way out?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:
BALTIMORE, SALT LAKE CITY, MENTOR (Ohio)–Is the U.S.
outdoor cat population down 90% since 1992?
The feral cat population might be.
Roadkills of cats appear to have fallen 90% in 10 years,
after apparently rising sixfold while the pet cat population nearly
doubled during the 1980s.
An eightfold surge in the population of feral cats, mostly
descended from abandoned and free-roaming pets, probably accounted
for about two-thirds of the roadkill increase during the 1980s, but
the trend is now completely reversed.

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Cat-eaters may get, spread SARS

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

GUANGZHOU–Laboratory studies of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome directed by virologist Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus of the
Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, published in the October 30
edition of the British journal Nature, demonstrate that cats and
ferrets could potentially carry the disease from filthy live markets
to humans.
Osterhaus said his experimental goal was simply to find out
if either cats or ferrets could be used as a laboratory model for
SARS. His findings imply, however, that cats raised for human
consumption may become a SARS vector–especially if the cats are
caged at live markets near whatever as yet unidentified wildlife
species is the primary SARS vector.

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