A - The Wildlife Conservation Society paid 278 additional salaries above $50,000.
At least 10 topped $150,000.
B - The Nature Conservancy paid 961 additional salaries above $50,000. At least
10 topped $189,000.
C - The North Shore Animal League America paid 25 additional salaries above $50,000.
D - The Environmental Defense Fund paid 130 additional salaries above $50,000.
At least 10 topped $100,000.
E - Larry Hawk was ASPCA president through April 2003; former San Francisco
SPCA president Ed Sayres thereafter. Hawk is now president of the Massachusetts
SPCA, succeeding Gus Thornton, who retired. Hawk’s listed MSPCA compensation
includes pay from four subsidiaries. Hawk had total compensation from animal
charities in fiscal 2003 of $482,352. Sayres had total compensation from animal
charities in fiscal 2003 of $375,958. Sayres was succeeded at the San Francisco
SPCA by Daniel Crain. Peter Theran, Carter Luke, John Bowen, and Howard Levy
were also paid by MSPCA subsidiaries. Denis Frappier directs the subsidiary
American Fondouk Association hospital in Fez, Morocco. In addition to the salaries
listed here, the ASPCA paid 85 other people in excess of $50,000. The MSPA
paid 109 other people salaries in excess of $50,000.
F - Paul Irwin retired in May 2004, succeeded by Wayne Pacelle. HSUS paid 80
other salaries over $50,000.
G - The National Audubon Society paid 230 additional salaries above $50,000.
At least seven topped $100,000.
H - The National Wildlife Federation paid 171 other salaries above $50,000. At
least five topped $100,000.
I - The Natural Resources Defense Council paid 124 other salaries over $50,000.
Seven topped $100,000.
J - The World Wildlife Fund paid 228 additional salaries above $50,000. At least
three topped $150,000.
K - Defenders of Wildlife paid 35 additional salaries above $50,000. At least
five exceeded $100,000.
L - The Conservation Fund paid 53 other salaries above $50,000. At least 16 exceeded
$100,000. Founding chair Patrick Noonan retired in July 2003. He was succeeded
by Charles Jordan, a board member since 1986, who was paid $15,000 for the remainder
of the fiscal year.
M - The Wilderness Society paid 63 additional salaries above $50,000. At least
five exceeded $100,000.
N - Conservation International paid 190 additional salaries above $50,000, including
at least 14 above $100,000.
O - The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation paid 31 other salaries above
$50,000. At least six topped $100,000.
P - EarthJustice paid 71 additional salaries above $50,000, including at least
11 above $100,000.
Q - American Humane in February 2004 hired former American Red Cross interim
CEO Marie Belew Wheatley as president and CEO. The Wheatley hiring followed
the separate exits in June 2003 of former president and CEO Tim O’Brien, former
Film & TV Unit chief Karen Goschen, and former marketing and communications
director Bob Roth, after the earlier departure of Free Farmed program founder
Adele Douglass. Longtime American Humane Film & TV Unit staff member Karen
Rosa succeeded Goshen. Former Colorado Pork Producers Council executive director
Elena Metro was hired in November 2003 to head Free Farmed.
R - The Denver Dumb Friends League paid five other salaries above $50,000.
S - The African Wildlife Foundation paid 19 additional salaries in excess of
$50,000.
T - Peggy & Kenneth Cunniff are wife/husband. National Anti-Vivisection Society
Form 990 filings in 1989-1994 listed Kenneth Cunniff as an independent contractor.
ANIMAL PEOPLE noted in June 1996 that his pay from NAVS often exceeds $100,000/year
plus use of a vehicle, while he runs his own law firm. Since then, NAVS lists
him as “Kenneth Cunniff, Ltd.” Mrs. Cunniff is daughter of previous
NAVS head George Trapp.
U - William & Patricia Burnham are husband and wife.
V - Warren Cox retired from the SPCA of Texas in November 2003, succeeded by
James Bias, who previously headed the Humane Society & SPCA of Bexar County
in San Antonio, Albuquerque Animal Services, and the Humane Society of North
Texas in Fort Worth, and was operations director for Citizens for Animal Protection
in Houston. Cox, running animal shelters since 1952, spent most of 2004 as
interim executive director at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Dayton,
Ohio. Gary Hendel, formerly executive director of the Maui County Humane Society
and director of Multnomah County Animal Services in Portland, Oregon, was named
permanent executive director in Dayton in November 2004. Kent Robertson, formerly
executive director at the Humane Society of Missouri, left the Dallas/SPCA
of Texas earlier in 2003 to head Dallas Animal Services.
W - Sierra Club salaries are from the 2002 filing of IRS Form 990. The 2003
filing was unavailable at deadline. Other Sierra Club data is from the organization’s
annual report.
X - The Michigan Humane Society paid 13 other salaries of more than $50,000.
A board member is a partner in a law firm which is the MHS’ primary legal
counsel. The firm was paid $45,929 in 2003.
Y - Roseann Trezza, Associated Humane Societies assistant director since 1968,
in mid-2003 succeeded Lee Bernstein, executive director since 1967. Associated
Humane paid three other salaries in excess of $50,000.
Z - Bat Conservation International paid six other salaries in excess of $50,000.
AA - Mike Russell, 59, was in June 2004 named president and CEO of WWF/Canada,
succeeding Monte Hummel, president since 1978.
BB - The American Bird Conservancy paid eight other salaries in excess of $50,000.
CC - Priscilla Feral and Robert Orabona are wife & husband. Bill Clark
left FoA in late 2002. He now works for IFAW.
DD - Ronald Cohn and Francine Patterson are identified by other media as “partners.”
EE - Robin Greenwald left the Water Keeper Alliance in mid-2003. The Water
Keeper Alliance paid four other salaries in excess of $50,000. Water Keeper
Alliance president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a partner in Kennedy & Madonna
LLP, to which the Alliance paid $112,000 in 2003.
FF - Alan Berger, API executive director since July 1994, resigned in April 2003.
His successor, Michelle Thew, previously headed the British Union Against Vivisection.
Jodi Jordan also left API in mid-2003.
GG - Bonnie & Brad Miller are wife and husband.
HH - John Gleiber recently retired after 26 years with AWI. He remains on the
AWI board.
II - Kim Bartlett & Merritt Clifton are wife and husband.
JJ - Explains Statement 8 of the Lifesavers filing of IRS Form 990, “Jill
Starr leases her property to the organization. She also receives a salary of
$3,500 per month. She borrowed $5,000 from the organization and is making monthly
payments. The current balance is $4,039.” Lifesavers paid $10,800 for
occupancy in fiscal 2003.
KK - Lorri & Gene Bauston are wife & husband.
LL - Karen & Michael Budke are wife/husband.
MM - Recent Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge filings of IRS Form 990 omit statements
which on earlier filings declared that co-founder Tanya Smith, whose husband
is Scott Smith, leased land to the foundation “at the same cost as her
mortgage payment,” receiving both housing plus equity in the 463-acre site,
relatively little of which is used for the care of sanctuary animals. The most
recent available Turpentine Creek filing of Form 990, filed on November 15, 2003,
covering calendar year 2002, indicates that it still pays $5,000 per month ($60,000/year)
in “occupancy”––but also showed that Tanya Smith was
owed $144,442, $114,286 of it in unpaid rent. In 1998 Tanya Smith settled charges
filed as felonious theft of public benefits by pleading guilty to illegal use
of food stamps, in a case resulting from her failure to declare income received
from leasing land and vehicles to the sanctuary. Hilda Jackson and Robert Jackson
were also Turpentine Creek cofounders. Robert Jackson died on September 25,
2002. Darla Jackson is his widow.
NN - Brian Kortis is also a lawyer and film maker.
OO - “I gave up my salary a couple of years ago and get paid from the proceeds
of the Best Friends Pet Club, which is a side venture run by Steven Hirano, myself,
and one other person,” Michael Mountain wrote to ANIMAL PEOPLE in January
2004. “It sells T-shirts, mugs, the small books I did, etc. It is our hope
that the Pet Club will make sufficient money in years to come to be able to provide
for some of the older founders of Best Friends when they retire (some are in
their late sixties already), and to do other things for animals and rescuers
that we approve of but that don't quite meet the strict standards of what we
feel we should be using members' donations for. I took home approximately $30,000
[in 2003] from the Pet Club after taxes were paid. I do still get a few hundred
dollars from Best Friends––enough for me to be able to pay back
into our health insurance plan.”
PP - Diana Chontos lives at Wild Burro Rescue. Her living expenses during the
fiscal year were met by repayment of a past personal loan of $10,000 to WBR.
QQ - Leo Grillo heads direct mail and videography companies which perform contract
services for DELTA Rescue at competitive rates.
RR - Mark S. Meyers and his wife, Amy L. Meyers, claimed no remuneration from
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue on IRS Form 990. Statement #2 listed $17,632
in “administrative
expense” not itemized as professional fundraising, accounting, or legal
fees.
SS - The Primarily Primates board in 2002 voted to pay Wally Swett total compensation
of $61,649. Swett actually cashed only half of the checks, and has been living
on that money ever since, he told ANIMAL PEOPLE on December 4, 2004, after
calling to ask how two years’ worth of checks never cashed should be
reported on IRS Form 990.
TT - Brian Werner claimed no remuneration from Tiger Creek a.k.a. Tiger Missing
Link. His fiance Terri Block received $6,650. Statement #1 listed $11,756 in “administrative
expense” not itemized as professional fundraising, accounting, or legal
fees; $3,028 for “auto expense”; $3,803 for “meals and entertainment”;
$1,208 for “mileage”; $5,600 for “rent”; and $4,258 for “contract
labor.” The recipients and beneficiaries of these amounts were not identified.
UU - Ellen Whitehouse claimed on IRS Form 990 to be working “100+” hours
a week for Noah’s Lost Ark. Her husband, Douglas Whitehouse, was said to
be working “60+” hours a week for Noah’s Lost Ark. Neither
claimed remuneration from the sanctuary. Kristen Gelineau of Associated Press
reported on November 3, 2003 that Douglas Whitehouse also “works long hours
as a truck driver for Toys ‘R’ Us.”
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