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Compensation
notes
1 - Includes compensation from nine IFAW affiliates. Chris-topher
Tuite was paid on a part-time basis. Also in 1999, IFAW paid $197,296
to
the Boston law firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, in which IFAW board
member and legal counsel Michael O'Connell is a partner. IFAW in lieu
of
disclosing the top five salaries paid to non-board members reported on
IRS Form 990, Schedule A, part I that, "During the current year,
more than 86% of each key employee's compensation was reimbursed by the
other [IFAW affiliate] organizations [for which work was done.]"
But the purpose of Schedule A, part I is not to explain where compensation
comes from. Rather, the section is meant to enable donors to decide if
compensation is reasonable and in keeping with charitable purposes. Standard
practice is to disclose total compensation exceeding $50,000 from all
affiliates of an organization combined, and then footnote as necessary
to explain divisions of duties and pay sources.
2 - John C. Sawhill, 63, president of The Nature Conservancy
since 1990, died on 5/18/2000.
3 - Peggy & Kenneth Cunniff are wife and husband. NAVS Form 990
filings in 1989-1994 identified Kenneth Cunniff as an independent
contractor. ANIMAL PEOPLE pointed out 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."
4 - Richard Avanzino left the San Francisco SPCA on 12/31/98, to
head Maddie's Fund. The amount shown here was his last six months'
salary, a payout of accumulated unused vacation time and sick leave, and
a pension plan adjustment. Lynn Spivak was among many former SF/SPCA senior
staff who followed Avanzino to Maddie's Fund. Succeeding Avanzino at the
SF/SPCA was Ed Sayres, formerly head of PETsMART Charities and, before
that, the animal division of the American Humane Association.
5 - A note from Denver Dumb Friends League director Robert Rohde
explained that, "All employees were paid out for unused vacation
time" in
1999, as a "one-time deal," for which Rohde collected $20,384
amassed
over 26 years.
6 - William & Patricia Burnham are husband and wife.
7 - The Connecticut Humane Society reported the payment of
$260,078 in salary and benefits to officers, directors, trustees, and
key employees, but omitted the name of president Richard Johns-ton,
whose compensation is estimated by subtracting the amounts paid to
executive director Gus Helberg and finance director Stephen Zulli. Past
Connecticut Humane Society filings indicate no one else to whom any of
the balance might be paid.
8 - Robert F.X. Hart left AHA in October 1999. His successor is
six-year AHA board member Timothy O'Brien. Carol Moulton left AHA in June
1999. Her post was filled by Connie Howard. Adele Douglass is now
executive director of Farm Animal Services Inc., a new "stand-alone
nonprofit organization" formed by the AHA to run its Free Farmed
Certificate Program.
9 - Andrew Dickson heads WSPA worldwide.
10 - Bonnie Brown, DVM, left the North Shore Animal League
America in October 1999. She is not the same person as Bonney A. Brown
of Best Friends.
11 - The CEO of Dogs Home Battersea is Duncan Green.
12 - The CEO of the National Canine Defence League is Clarissa Baldwin.
13 - Mark & Delia
Owens are husband and wife. Their first book,
Cry of the Kalahari (1985), exposed the deaths from starvation and thirst
of thousands of migrating wildebeests whose route through Botswana was
blocked by cattle fencing funded by international development grants.
Rousted from Botswana, Mark and Delia Owens moved to Zambia, where in
1986 they formed the North Luanga Conservation Project to fight poaching
by improving the local economy. They left Zambia after an ABC Turning
Point episode seemed to implicate Mark Owens in killing a wounded poacher,
despite the statement of Turning Point senior producer Janice Tomlin that,
"I can assure you in the strongest way that neither Mark nor Delia
Owens nor any other North Luanga Conservation Project staff were even
in the area." Since 1998 Mark and Delia Owens have done surveying
for the proposed reintroduction of grizzly bears to the Bitterroot region
of Idaho. An October 2000 report to the agriculture ministry of Botswana
by British consultant Scott Wilson affirmed the Owens' 1985 contention
that no more long livestock fences should be built there.
14 - Ronald Cohn and Francine Patterson are identified by other
media as "partners."
15 - Chris Jordan is son of William Jordan, founder of Care For
The Wild. G.T. Craggs is husband of trustee V. Craggs.
16 - Javier Burgos leases an office to SUPRESS d.b.a The Nature of
Wellness, at $22,800 per year. Hoorik Davoudian, SUPRESS vice president,
took no salary in 1999. Her firm, New Health Inc., was paid $88,800 for
"Programs/campaigns design implementation and management."
17 - FACT compensation plus compensation from Nest Eggs Inc., a
for-profit FACT subsidiary.
18 - Esther Mechler founded Spay/USA in 1990. It became Pet
Savers Foundation program in 1993. Lynda Foro began Doing Things For Animals
in 1993. Hired by Pet Savers in 1999, Foro continues DTFA, which is still
independent, as part of her duties.
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19 - Alex Pacheco left PETA at the end of 1999 to cofound Humane
America.
20 - Bonnie & Brad Miller are wife and husband.
21 - Eric Mindell left Last Chance For Animals in January 2000 to
take a job with One2One Care Inc., an online veterinary information
service. Replacing Mindell at LCA is campaign director Jennifer
Winikoff.
22 - Carla Campbell-Robinson and Lisa Distefano have left the Sea
Shepherd Conser-vation Society. Valerie Shand succeeded Campbell-Robinson.
23 - Pat Derby and Ed Stewart are partners. PAWS provides their
housing and vehicles.
24 - Kim Bartlett & Merritt Clifton are wife/husband.
25 - Lorri & Gene Baus-ton are wife and husband. They also
receive housing and transportation from Farm Sanctuary.
26 - Alex Hershaft is not paid a salary but rents office space to FARM.
27 - Stephen Tello and Wally Swett also receive housing from Primarily
Primates.
28 - Gail Smith-Gliss was hired in midyear.
29 - Gene & Diana Chontos are husband and wife.
30 - Robin Duxbury is not paid but is reimbursed for expenses.
31 - Mary Lynn Parker is wife of Joseph Donovan Parker, the main public
voice of Tiger Haven until August 2000, when--days after the Parkers posed
together in a photo for the Christian Science Monitor--Mary Lynn Parker
said she had sued him for divorce. Joe Parker is a longtime bingo operator
whose games have repeatedly been halted by Tennessee and Kentucky law
enforcement. Accused of skimming $50,000 in 1986-1997 from bingo games
held to benefit a nursery school and kindergarten, Parker turned prosecution
witness in a joint federal/state probe of alleged bingo gambling corruption.
His 8-month sentence for conspiracy and tax evasion was cut to three months
in a halfway house. He opened a bingo hall to benefit Tiger Haven in May
1994. It closed in 1996.
32 - Turpentine Creek cofounder Tanya Alexenia Syrenia Smith, a.k.a. Tanya
Gonzalez Smith in 1998 settled charges originally filed as felonious theft
of public benefits by pleading guilty to illegal use of food stamps. Smith
allegedly declared in applying for food stamps and Medicaid that she and
her son had no income other than the son's Social Security payments, and
had no other resources. Turpentine Creek had paid Smith $5,000 per month
rent since April 1, 1994; paid her $20,000 plus 5% interest, 1992-1994;
and paid her $34,122 from January 1995 to the date the case was filed.
Smith was also paid for leasing two vehicles to the foundation until July
1, 1997. The current Turpentine Creek IRS Form 990 filing declares that
"Title of refuge land is in the name of the president (Smith), and
is reflected on the foundation's books as being leased from her at the
same cost as her mortgage payment. This is a book entry only, with no
actual money paid to the foundation's president. All mortgage payments
are made by the foundation. Living facilities at the refuge are furnished
to the on-site managers so they can be readily available to care
for the animals." Thus it appears that Smith receives housing plus
equity in the 450-acre site, relatively little of which is actually used
for the animals.
Opposition
33 - Don A. Young succeeded Matthew Connally as head of Ducks
Unlimited.
34 - Combined compensation from both the Wildlife Con-servation Fund of
America and the Wildlife Legislative Fund of America, which are affiliates.
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