2011-02-01T12:25:37-08:00 2010-06-30 Blazek & Vetterling 2900 Weslayan Suite 200 Houston TX 770275132 990 2009-07-01 760608925 Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc SPAY 7138623863 PO Box 70286 Houston TX 77270 James R Weedon 2011-02-01 Jody Blazek 7134395739 X 2009 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z James R Weedon PO Box 70286 Houston TX 77270 4749359 false false X www.snapus.org X 1999 TX SNAP's mission is to prevent the suffering and death of cats and dogs due to overpopulation and preventable diseases, especially in low-income areas. We accomplish this in Houston and San Antonio, Texas by means of sterilization, education, and wellness services. 10 10 81 1217 0 1368145 1087368 2539890 2642127 2897 -30061 414761 399717 4325693 4099151 0 0 2620532 2653545 0 316819 1532428 1610856 4152960 4264401 172733 -165250 1349943 1135650 499437 450394 850506 685256 SNAP's mission is to prevent the suffering and death of cats and dogs due to overpopulation and preventable diseases, especially in low-income areas. false false 2923316 2969303 SNAP has reduced-cost stationary surgery/wellness clinics in Houston and San Antonio. In FY2010, the newly combined and expanded Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic sterilized 12,165 dogs and cats, and the San Antonio Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic did 9,679. In addition, the San Antonio clinic saw 2,569 wellness patients, and the clinic in Houston treated 13,046. Our program of special cat days charging only a $20 co-pay spayed and neutered 1,061 cats on seventeen days at our San Antonio clinic. On nineteen $30 co-pay dog days, we sterilized 836 dogs, including special Dachshund-only and Chihuahua-only events. Both clinics participated in Neuter Scooter for a Nickel, neutering 425 cats for five cents each on the official Spay Day USA, and the Houston clinic spayed sixty female cats free of charge for Valentine's Day in the same month. The Houston clinic completed the sterilization of 625 community cats begun the year before in collaboration with four TNR groups by a grant from PetSmart Charities. The Houston clinic continued its successful 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. This program also involves a collaborative effort with Pet Patrol to offer free transportation and/or pickup services between the client's home and our clinics. Our participation in AIDS Walk 2010 was quite successful in helping fund Animal Aid. In FY2010, we helped over 103 clients in this program. A similar program for the elderly and disabled has been funded but did not get started in FY2010. 423648 31018 The Houston Mobile Clinic Project provides free spay-neuter surgeries for the cats and dogs of income-qualifying people in their own neighborhoods. The two clinics that now constitute this project sterilized 4,020 animals in FY2010. Once the state Animal Friendly grant ended, this clinic continued free service to Liberty County via funding from the city of Liberty, the Lions Club, the Rotary Club, private donors, and the Gilmore Foundation in Cleveland, enabling us to spay/neuter 278 animals free of charge in FY2010. During our Neuter Scooter for a Nickel promotion as part of Spay Day USA, during which we have neutered male cats for five cents each for sixteen years, the mobile clinic neutered fifty-seven male cats and spayed one female (brought in by accident). The clinic's valuable aid in the area dubbed the Corridor of Cruelty and Neglect continued throughout the fiscal year, enabling us to sterilize 314 animals in the area. This shameful place earned this name because it is a dumping ground for sick, injured, abused dogs (mostly), who live in horrible conditions. Not only did we make fourteen trips there to sterilize and provide some wellness services for rescued dogs as well as those living in the nearby neighborhood, but we were also able to promote awareness of the need to prevent such places from existing by spaying and neutering and treating animals humanely. In fact, the animal assistant on the mobile clinic volunteers in the Corridor and while filling up the feed stations witnessed a dog being dumped, and she was responsible for the first arrest in the Corridor. We made fifteen trips out of county in FY2010, totaling 355 spays and neuters in twelve trips to Liberty County, two trips to Brazoria County, and one trip to Fort Bend County. A program we do collaboratively with the city shelter (BARC) called the Blitz Project targeted at-risk neighborhoods with consecutive days of mobile clinic visits and with overflow going to BARC over the weekend. In FY2010 we made eleven trips to four needy areas, sterilizing 223 cats and dogs. Another collaborative effort, the Zip Code project, targeted community cats by blitzing a single zip code, 77023. During five trips, we sterilized 128 cats in the context of trap-neuter-release. A great accomplishment came out of this partnership as BARC was persuaded not to kill community cats but to neuter and return them instead. The idea is to do enough sterilizations in one limited area to more effectively stop the cycle of reproduction among free-roaming cats, who are responsible for 78.6 percent of kitten births in the U.S. Only 2 percent of these cats have been sterilized. We expect to see intake and killing at BARC go down from this zip code as well as complaint calls to the shelter about cats. This series actually began with a community cat day at BARC in November 2009 at which we sterilized thirty-one cats. 279517 35066 The San Antonio Mobile Clinic Project sterilized 3,003 animals in FY2010, 97.8 percent of those were free. The clinic made 134 trips to twenty-eight unique sites, including two new ones. We averaged 22.4 animals per trip, thus maximizing the efficiency of the clinic despite a decrease in total surgeries. Overall, we were forced to turn away 922 animals in Bexar County in FY2009 and thirty-eight animals in other counties. Since 2005, we have increased the clinic's free surgeries every year. Special events on the mobile clinic included two male-only days in July, August, and September-sponsored by Animal Care Services (ACS)-at which 165 dogs and cats were sterilized. We had a wildly successful free Chihuahua day in September in combination with our surgery clinic, at which the mobile sterilized sixteen dogs. For some of the people who showed up for this promotion, this was the first animal who had ever been sterilized in their family. Others brought a mother dog and puppies they had found on the street or had been given to the family. ACS sponsored twenty free-to-the-public days this fiscal year, no income qualifiers required. The Hollomon Price Foundation sponsored nine "military" days for the three bases in San Antonio for a total of 205 surgeries, particularly for military personnel. Fourteen trips out of Bexar County resulted in a total of 312 dogs and cats being sterilized for free who otherwise would not have been. Funded by The Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, we made three trips to Comal County (Canyon Lake and Spring Branch) and five trips to Bandera County (Lake Medina Shores, The Plaza, Pipe Creek Community Center, and Lake Hills), for a total of 190 spays and neuters. The city of Hondo brought us out to Medina County in February to sterilize eighteen cats and dogs. The Roger and Phyllis Sherman Foundation sponsored four trips to Atascosa (Lytle), Wilson (Floresville, twice), and Medina (Hondo) Counties for 104 animals. 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Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees See above process followed for individuals described in question 15b. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts When a new member joins the board of directors they are asked to complete a conflict of interest questionnaire. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11 Form 990, Part VI, Line 11: Form 990 Review Process The draft version of the 990 is presented to the director of finance and accounting for preliminary review before it is forwarded to the executive director and the board. If there are no objections or concerns, the director of finance and accounting approves the draft to be finalized in order to file with the IRS. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Form 990, Part III, Line 4d : Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Public education is one of the ways we accomplish our mission. We have a PR person and two humane educators in Houston and San Antonio who make sure that the word gets out through all media-newspapers, radio, TV, and the Internet. They also make personal contacts by participation in public events, networking meetings, and lectures/workshops. This past year we increased our outreach to the Hispanic community by adding all information on the website in Spanish and providing educational materials in Spanish. We also partnered with the Cesar Millan Foundation in its national spay-neuter campaign. SNAP participated in a hurricane preparation event for dogs and cats with Pet Paradise in Houston. This event helped to educate the community about the importance of vaccinating and microchipping. In San Antonio, we exceeded our objectives in outreach. Flyer distribution in FY2010 totaled 41,700, by mail, email, and fax; posting; personal distribution at public events; and availability at our clinics. This number includes public service announcements submitted via mail, fax, and email monthly to thirty-three contacts at four television stations, thirteen radio stations, and ten newspapers. The effectiveness of these 363 PSAs is multiplied many thousands of times. We also participated in sixty-eight health fairs and other public events, distributing 11,915 flyers personally at these events. Moreover, ninety-one networking meetings with 1,239 people also contributed to SNAP's standing in and collaboration with the San Antonio community. In Houston, in terms of outreach/education efforts, we distributed 41,469 calendars this year-by mail, fax, or email; posting at key locations; distribution by animal control officers; distribution to the media; and availability at the mobile clinic. Many of the calendars are delivered personally to health clinics, multi-service centers, WIC offices, Food Stamp offices, food pantries, etc., some two or three times a week, where staff or volunteers speak about our program directly with people who gather at these places, hand them a flyer, and enlist their aid in spreading the word about animal overpopulation and SNAP, thus creating 1,217 "neighborhood volunteers" in FY2010. Eight lectures/presentations added to our humane education activities, reaching 191 people directly. Four presentations were about our relatively new zip code approach to trap-neuter-return in an attempt to enlist neighborhood volunteers to trap community cats and bring them to the mobile clinic for sterilization then return them to where they were trapped. This effort also involves walking the neighborhoods that have been reported to have lots of community cats and finding ways to publicize the project as widely as possible since its success depends on community involvement. All these cats would have been killed if animal control officers had picked them up. Other personal contacts made through networking and coordinating meetings certainly helped garner both support and work for the mobile clinic. The mobile clinic program manager attended fifty-one meetings and made 334 contacts, many at BARC, which has become very supportive of spay-neuter. The total number of personal outreach contacts was 1,819 for FY2010. Media attention continued to be given to SNAP. A total of 633 public service announcements were sent to relevant area newspapers on a regular basis. Of the twenty-three newspapers in Harris County's media guide, we regularly contact eleven that are appropriate for mobile clinic locations.