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Anti's efforts to stop hunting backed by multi-million dollar budgets (12/31/2003)

As in previous years, Animal People magazine has published financial information for 136 animal charities, based on analysis of the groups' IRS reports for FY 2002.

Below are the figures for several leading animal rights groups that are working to end hunting, fishing and trapping in America, as presented in Animal People. In parentheses are the budgets for the immediate past years.

The budgets for most of the groups stayed level or dipped somewhat, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) budget grew from $13.5 million to $16.4 million in 2002. The Humane Society of the United States had an even bigger increase in its budget, from $58.8 million to $67 million.

Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)

• budget $3,208,308 ($3,360,728 / $3,133,399 / 2,929,360)
• programs 2,543,747
• overhead 664,561
• net assets 2,407,032

Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) (previous years not immediately available)

• budget $1,260,416 ($1,072,951)
• programs 1,117,926
• overhead 142,490
• net assets 2,486,967

Doris Day Animal League (DDAL)

• budget $2,570,372 ($2,844,347 / $2,743,811 / $2,298,227)
• programs 1,977,752
• overhead 592,620
• net assets 753,186

Fund for Animals

• budget $7,358,158 ($5,600,721 / $5,386,201 / $6,383,888)
• programs 5,766,004
• overhead 1,592,154
• net assets 20,225,940

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

• budget $67,272,795 ($58,865,207 / $50,431,797 / $51,560,147)
• programs 38,620,876
• overhead 23,453,737
• net assets 85,810,587

In Defense of Animals (IDA)

• budget $2,304.433 ($2,339,784 /$1,841,705 / $1,707,270)
• programs 1,878,120
• overhead 426,313
• net assets 2,512,588

PETA and PCRM: Partners in Fundraising

The Animal People report indicates that PETA and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) should be considered as a single fundraising unit because of its joint partnership in Foundation to Support Animal Protection. Here are the numbers for the three entities:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

• budget $16,414,174 ($13,499,614 /$17,668,699 / $16,487,851)
• programs 13,741,587
• overhead 2,672,587
• net assets 5,079,120

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

• budget $2,667,912 ($2,915,847 / $2,533,289 / $2,350,143)
• programs 2,107,232
• overhead 560,680
• net assets 887,109

Foundation to Support Animal Protection (FSAP)

• budget $2,192,281 ($2,430,555)
• programs 29,718
• overhead 2,162,563
• net assets 9,616,986

***Information provided by Americans for Medical Progress.

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