2020-02-01T18:38:37-07:00 2019-12-31 990EZ 2019-01-01 743230332 ANIMAL-KIND INTERNATIONAL ANIM 5758340908 PO Box 300 Jemez Springs NM 87025 Karen Menczer Executive Director 5758340908 2020-02-03 98.19.22.247 2019 2020-09-23 17:36:50Z X https://www.animal-kind.org/ X X 109009 X 108632 0 0 377 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 109009 70946 0 0 0 0 0 376 71322 37687 47529 0 85216 47529 85216 0 0 0 0 47529 85216 0 0 47529 85216 Animal-Kind International supports animal welfare organizations in poor countries, primarily in Africa, secondarily in Latin America/Caribbean, and in Armenia. We raise money for them and raise visibility of their work. We track their use of AKI funds so we can provide this information to our supporters. We support our Partner Organizations through ongoing disbursements. Additionally, we implement an annual Small Grant Program for Animal Welfare Organizations in Africa. We also provide technical and administrative assistance to our partners and grantees, such as editing their reports and websites, advice on promoting their organizations on social media and through crowd funding, and technical advice about running shelters, rescues, and implementing other animal welfare activities. Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization, Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of Animals: AKI support to the USPCA covers almost 50% of the operating costs of the USPCA Haven animal shelter, which houses more than 200 cats and dogs and rescues, on average, more than one animal/day. AKI funds covered: rent of The Haven shelter; a portion of The Haven Shelter Manager's 2019 salary and bonus; the USPCA Assistant Manager's salary; transport for rescues of cats and dogs and for pre- and post-adoption home visits; electricity at The Haven; medicines for (rabies, parvo, and DHPPIL vaccines, de-wormers, vaccines, flea/tick control, etc.); food for Haven puppies and kittens and for adult animals; firewood to cook dog food; cat litter; and air time for the USPCA phone. We continue to raise funds to purchase land to create a larger Haven. AKI holds (does not and will not disburse) land purchase funds to the USPCA until enough is raised and suitable land is identified. 13750 X 13750 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Mbwa wa Africa, Tanzania: AKI support covers about 33% of the costs of running Mbwa wa Africa's animal shelter in Arusha, which, on average, houses 34 dogs and 5 cats. Mbwa wa Africa used AKI funds to pay salaries of shelter staff; to purchase cat and dog food; to pay for medicine, vet supplies, and surgeries; for minor repair and construction of shelter infrastructure; for expenses of community spay/neuter clinics (transport of vets, refreshments for volunteers); and for general shelter supplies, such as washing powder, cooking gas, diesel fuel, doggy diapers, and other supplies that are needed to run an animal shelter. 11000 X 11000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Tanzania Animal Welfare Society:With AKI funds, TAWESO conducted a one-week donkey welfare outreach clinic in the Lake Zone, Tanzania. TAWESO purchased medicines and supplies (with about 80% of the AKI funding) to cover additional donkey clinics in the Lake Zone and used funds to pay office rent for the Lake Zone office and for humane education material. 4000 X 4000 Disbursements to Partner Namibia rural area animal welfare: (1) Rural SPCAs used AKI funds to purchase cat and dog food (Oshana, Tsumeb, Grootfontein, Otjiwarongo, Walvis Bay, & Luderitz SPCAs); for vet care, including spay/neuter (Luderitz, Grootfontein, Windhoek SPCAs); to purchase medicines and dip for external parasite preventation (Tsumeb, Otjiwarongo, Walvis Bay, & Rundu SPCAs). (2) Have A Heart-Namibia used AKI funds for booster vaccinations and parasite treatment for dogs and cats that return to the HAH mobile clinic (47 cats and 259 dogs) after they are spayed or neutered; for emergency care of cats and dogs; and for spay/neuter of cats. (3) Katutura Pet Care Project used AKI funds for vet care and purchase of cat and dog food for the volunteer team's monthly visits to Katutura, where they hand out food, dip dogs, flea powder cats, de-worm, and provide basic check-ups. (4) Aranos-in this agricultural village, with no accessible vet care, AKI funds were used to spay 2 dogs (transport to vet and return + cost of surgeries). 5000 X 5000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society: AKI support to LAWCS is for their Humane Education Program, Community Animal Care Clinics, and Community Animal Feeding, and for general operating costs. AKI funding in 2019 paid the salaries of three LAWCS staff, office rent for 10 months, setting up the permanent animal care clinic at the LAWCS office (purchase of clinic supplies, furniture, painting), purchase of medications, purchase of cat and dog food for community animal feeding, fuel, oil, and maintenance of LAWCS motorbikes, humane education material, and a monthly animal welfare radio show. 5000 X 5000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Ghana Society for the Protection & Care of Animals: AKI covers almost 100% of the costs of GSPCA's Humane Education Program. In 2019, GSPCA used AKI funds to take Humane Education Program students on 6 field trips to Lemla Vet Clinic; Atomic Energy Vet Clinic; La Veterinary Hospital; Livestock & Poultry Research & Education Center, and the Accra Polo Club. AKI funds cover bus hire, snacks for the students and teachers, small stipends for the Humane Ed teachers, transport for 2 GSPCA volunteers to accompany the students, and photos and frames to each school to memorialize the field trips. 245 students from 4 schools participated in the 6 field trips. In addition to the field trips, GSPCA used AKI funds for a rabies awareness day (transport for 3 vets and for equipment hire) and for a community rabies vaccination clinic; for transport for GSPCA's Humane Ed volunteers to the schools where their Humane Education Program is taught and photocopying and binding of Humane Ed booklets. 5000 X 5000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Kingston Community Animal Welfare: AKI donors cover about 90% of the costs of KCAW's program to care for Kingston's street cats and dogs, and pets that belong to poor families. KCAW used AKI funds to purchase cat and dog food; to spay 27 female dogs and 6 cats and neuter 2 male dogs and 1 cat; vet supplies and medicines for mange, de-worming, maggot spray, wound powder; vet care/hospitalization for an old dog with multiple maggot wounds, who had to be euthanized, a feral cat with a corneal ulceration, three rescued pups severely dehydrated and passing blood in their stools, a dog with serious maggot wounds, a dog who had gotten into a fight and ended up with a mangled hind leg, and a dog who was hit by a car, whose eye had to be removed. 5000 X 5000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras: AKI covers about 90% of HHHH's costs of operating their sanctuary, which mainly shelters older dogs and cats and/or seriously injured (emotionally and/or physically) animals-serving as a hospice/rehab center. HHHH used AKI funds for cat and dog food for more than 9 months for the +/-25 dogs and 3-5 cats at the sanctuary; for helpers to clean the sanctuary's yards; for medicines and vet supplies, such as de-wormers, flea/tick preventatives, and antibiotics; and for vet care, including blood tests, vaccinations, spay/neuters, e.g., surgery to remove a tumor from dog Suyapa, neuter of dogs Frode and Toncontin, spay of dog Ash, dog Sadey, cat Popis, and dog Gatubela. 5000 X 5000 Disbursements to AKI Partner Organization Save the Animals-Armenia: SA-Armenia used AKI funds to purchase food for the approximately 60 dogs at the SA-A shelter. Besides purchasing dry dog food, rice, oatmeal, and meat, SA-Armenia used AKI funds to pay one worker's salary, and for vet care and medicines, which is significant given the advanced age of many of the shelter dogs, and in 2019 included: general vet check-ups, blood tests, vet care for tooth problems, for arthritis, for skin problems, and dogs with cancer. 5000 X 5000 In 2019, we held our 2nd annual grant competition for Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organizations and awarded grants, as follows: (1) Animal Welfare-Ilha (Mozambique) to trap, vaccinate, neuter, release 45 cats and dogs ($990) (2) Egyptian Society of Animal Friends to trap, vaccinate, neuter, release 75 dogs ($2000) (3) OIPA-Cameroon ($1790) to hold a rabies sensitization and vet care clinic and provide at least two years of care for a rescued puppy, including a dog house, spay, vaccinations, and food (4) Giving is Living (South Africa) to build fenced yards for at least 10 dogs to get them off of their lives on chains ($1075) (5) Bam Animal Clinics-Uganda to train donkey owners to make sisal saddle packs to protect donkeys when they carry supplies ($1986) (6) Sibanye Animal Welfare & Conservancy Trust-Zimbabwe to hold vet clinics for dogs, cats, and donkeys and educate pet owners and children in Lupane district ($1055) (7) Nyenda Mobile Vet Clinic-Zambia to provide veterinary care (rabies, de-worming, wound care, etc.) of cats and dogs in Muswishi villages in Chisamba district and educate school children and other community members ($1700) (8) Save Animals-Democratic Republic of Congo to hold six months of pet care/ownership awareness raising activities: three months of a new TV show about animals, visits schools to talk about animal welfare, create dog and cat accessories (beds, cat scratching posts), hold a Sanitation Day-clean up an animal facility, which could be a farm, a zoo, or other facility, and facilitate a 2-day workshop with the aim of promoting dogs and cats as pets ($1600). 12196 X 12196 70946 Karen Menczer Executive Director 25 0 0 0 Betsie Van Dyke Secretary 3.0 0 0 0 Ron Stryker Treasurer 1 0 0 0 Jean Merriman Board Member 1 0 0 0 Barbara Brown Abolafia Board Member 1 0 0 0 Dipesh Pabari Board Member 1 0 0 0 Karen Rae Board Member 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NM Karen Menczer PO Box 300 Jemez Springs NM 87025 5758340908 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 47588 53610 63800 82247 108632 355877 47588 53610 63800 82247 108632 355877 0 17729 24110 41839 0 0 0 17729 24110 41839 314038 86 123 123 228 377 937 86 123 123 228 377 937 47674 53733 63923 82475 109009 356814 0.88012 0.93446 0.00263 0.00230 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 7a 2018 return showed that we received donations from disqualified persons. That amount in line 7a, $17,729 should have been on line 7b. these donations were not from disqualified persons. The people who donated were not and are not in a position to exercise substantial influence. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Electronic transfer fees for incoming donations e.g., Donorbox and outgoing disbursements e.g., wire fees