2012 SNAP Annual Report

SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
Houston Mobile Clinic Project, providing free sterilizations to cats and dogs of
indigent families in Harris County, Texas
SNAP II, a second mobile clinic available as a backup to our Houston mobile clinic and for
special projects
Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic, providing reduced-cost
sterilizations and wellness services and products to dogs and cats of the general public at a
stationary clinic
San Antonio Mobile
Clinic Project, providing
free sterilizations to the dogs
and cats of the indigent in
Bexar County, Texas, with
some reduced-cost
sterilizations and wellness
services for the animals of the
general public; other counties
served by special funding
San Antonio SpayNeuter and Animal
Wellness Clinic, providing
reduced-cost sterilizations and
wellness services and products
for cats and dogs of the general
public at a stationary clinic
Additional Programs, occasional trips to other cities, states, and countries as requested
and funded—for example, our collaboration with the Sociedad Protectora de Animales de
Zihuatanejo to bring high-volume spay-neuter services and training to Zihuatanejo, Mexico;
service by our Houston mobile clinic to Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Liberty Counties; and
service by our San Antonio mobile clinic to Comal, Bandera, Kendall, Atascosa, Webb,
Brazos, Wilson, Medina, and Guadalupe Counties.
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
We sterilized 31,344 cats and dogs in all our projects, up 0.25 percent from last year. Of
these, 10,905 or 34.8 percent were free. That includes 16,839 dogs and 14,496 cats, of whom
2,356 were community cats.
Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic sterilized 13,411; Houston mobile clinic,
5,899; San Antonio Spay-Neuter & Animal Wellness Clinic, 8,493; and San Antonio mobile
clinic, 3,532.
We had 12,457 wellness patients at our Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic
and 4,256 at San Antonio Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic for a total of 16,713,
down 3.14 percent from last year.
We participated for the
eighteenth year in World Spay
Day during which our clinics in
Houston and San Antonio
spayed or neutered 176 dogs
and cats.
With funding from the Ray
Rowe 1988 Trust for Animals,
Susman Family Foundation, J.
Robert Nonemaker Foundation
for Small Animals, Carol and
Kent Landsberg Foundation,
ASPCA, and Corridor
C.A.R.E.S., SNAP was able to
continue helping in Houston’s infamous Corridor of Cruelty
and Neglect. The Houston
mobile clinic made eleven trips
to this area to spay and neuter 268 animals—both rescues and those with guardians in nearby
neighborhoods.
Our mobile clinics allowed us to serve neighboring counties beyond our home bases in Harris
and Bexar Counties. The San Antonio mobile clinic visited Comal County twice, Bandera
County three times, and Medina County six times, Guadalupe County once, and Webb
County twice for four days of surgeries, performing 529 spays and neuters. The Houston
mobile clinic went to Liberty County once, Brazoria County once, and Fort Bend County
twelve times for a total of 270 sterilizations.
The Houston Mobile Clinic Project continued its project in collaboration with the Bureau of
Animal Regulation and Care and PetSmart Charities in zip codes 77011 and 77023. Our Zip
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
Code Project for community cats focuses on two adjacent zip codes that BARC has
determined are among those most responsible for cat intake and shelter killing as well as
citizen complaints to the shelter. This is a pilot project designed to maximize the impact of
spay-neuter in a relatively small area and to allow us to measure the decrease in intake and
killing more easily. In FY2012, we made thirty-seven trips to these zip codes, sterilizing
1,059 community cats in 77011 and ninety-eight in 77023.
In addition to the Zip Code
Project, the Houston mobile
clinic held two special events
for cats. One was sponsored by
Charles Armstrong, and one
was funded by Harris County
Veterinary Public Health in
two adjacent zip codes with the
largest population of cats,
according to its data: 77039
and 77093. These two events
resulted in forty-eight sterilized
cats.
Special free events were held at
our San Antonio Spay-Neuter
and Animal Wellness Clinic,
including a free dachshund day,
a free cat day, a free Chi &
Gato day, and a free event on
Veteran’s Day in addition to those free surgeries sponsored by Animal Care Services,
totaling 1,327 free sterilizations. Another twelve half-price days served 634 more cats and
dogs.
Our Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic continued its Animal Aid program,
which began in 2000 to offer free sterilizations, free wellness exams, and wellness products
at cost to the dogs and cats living with people affected by HIV/AIDS. In FY2012, we helped
84 clients and 116 animals in this program.
The city of San Antonio contracted with us to provide free spays and neuters for cats and
dogs without regard to income qualifications of their guardians. The mobile clinic sterilized
676 animals on twenty-two trips and another 1,192 individual animals for a total of 1,868
animals sterilized for the general public.
563 volunteers provided 6,117 hours of assistance to SNAP while helping at special events,
during community outreach programs, and with administrative work.
SNAP received a fifth consecutive Winner of Distinction Award from the Better Business
Bureau. And every year since 2002, Independent Charities of America has selected SNAP as
one of the “best charities in America.” We also won a second Top-Rated NonProfit Award
from GreatNonprofits based on client reviews in 2012. And Charity Navigator gave SNAP its
coveted four-star rating two years in a row.
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
6,781 indigent clients, with 10,905 animals, who otherwise would not have been able to have
their animals sterilized—for either financial or transportation reasons—were empowered to
have their companion animals
spayed or neutered in our free
programs.
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The birth of 52,348 cats and
51,986 dogs was prevented by
all our programs, many of
whom might have been born
homeless and eventually killed
by a shelter or life on the
streets.
1,328 community cats, who
otherwise would not have been
sterilized, were spayed or
neutered, and as a result 10,044
births were likely to have been
prevented.
Wellness clients with 16,713 animals were able to obtain reduced-cost wellness services
(examinations, vaccinations, tests, preventatives, etc.) who might not have gotten them at
considerably higher priced private veterinary clinics. Included in this general group were
indigent clients in our Animal Aid and Disabled/Older Guardians programs at our Houston
Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic: disabled clients, elderly clients, and clients
HIV/AIDS-affected clients.
Performing about 38,000 high-quality sterilization surgeries for dogs and cats to prevent
an estimated 125,657 homeless animals from being born, depending on the mix of
species, gender, and proportion of community cats
Providing wellness services to dogs and cats to promote the health and well being of
19,000 animals and the community at large
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
Offering such high-quality service in state-of-the-art clinics by caring, friendly, and
professional staff that we have no more than a low 0.10 percent death rate and achieve
high client satisfaction of at least 95 percent positive evaluations
Open a new spay-neuter and animal wellness clinic in Pasadena, Texas, that will serve
Southeast Harris County with the objective of sterilizing 10,000 cats and dogs annually
An all-volunteer board of directors, serving without compensation, governs SNAP. The board by
the end of FY2012 consisted of the following members:
David L. Smith, Board President
Neil Sackheim, Board Vice President
Linné Girouard, Board Secretary
Terry Blair Sidwell, Treasurer
Kathy Bartlett, Board Member
Carla Bennett, Board Member
Catarina Gonzales Cron, Board Member
Paul Pettie, Board Member
Kate Smargiasso, Board Member
Ria van Dright, Board Member
James R. Weedon, DVM, MPH, Executive Director and Director of Operations
Laura E. Welch, Director of Development
JR Valdez, Director of Finance and Accounting
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
Total Revenue
Program Expenses
Management & General Expenses
Fundraising Expenses
End of Year Net Asset Balance
Expense Ratio of Revenue
$5,013,469
$3,917,405
$ 305,644
$ 328,770
$1,146,906
12.65%
Note: The figures in this chart are calculated as a percentage of revenue. When calculated as a
percentage of expenses, program expenses are 86.06, percent, management and general
expenses are 6.72 percent, and fundraising expenses are 7.22 percent. This yields an expense
ratio of 13.94 percent.
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
We thank the following donors and friends for their gifts in FY2012:
$50,000+
Animal Charities of America
Brown Foundation
Houston Endowment
$25,000 - $49,999
Kronkosky Charitable Foundation
PetSmart Charities, Inc.
$10,000 - $24,999
ASPCA
Elinor Patterson Baker Trust
Mary M. Diggs Foundation
Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation
Petco Foundation
Selz Foundation
Vivian L. Smith Foundation
Tapeats Fund
George & Fay Young Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Banfield Charitable Trust
Corridor Rescue, Inc.
Faye L. & William Cowden Charitable
Foundation
Irene C. Evans Charity Trust
George and Mary Josephine Hamman
Foundation
HEB (San Antonio)
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Foundation
Carol & Kent Landsberg Foundation
Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust
PetHub Animal Rescue of Pearland
Charlotte B. Proehl Foundation
Ray Rowe 1988 Trust for Animals
Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation
Florence S. Ducey Foundation
The Alfred S. Gage Foundation, Roxana C.
Hayne, Joan N. Kelleher, Julie Stacy &
Nancy Hayne, Directors
HEB San Antonio
Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
Houston PetSet
The Kroger Company
Huffington Foundation
Robert & Pearl Knox Foundation
Carl E. Kessler Family Foundation
Lost Pawses
Merial
Momentum Porsche
On Shore Foundation
Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation
David & Betty Sacks Foundation
Stern Memorial Trust
Susman Family Foundation
Walmart Foundation
Marjorie T. Walthall Perpetual Trust
$500 - $999
BP Fabric of America-On Shore Foundation
Robertson-Finley Foundation
J. Harry & Winnie Converse Tappan
Foundation
$1,000 - $4,999
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Nathalie & Gladys Dalkowitz Foundation
SPAY-NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
P.O. Box 70286  Houston, Texas 77270  P 713.862.3863  800.762-7762  F 713.880.3172  snapus.org
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