By moving homeless animals from places of low demand to locations with high demand, we reduce the overcrowding that can lead to tragic and unnecessary outcomes. Matt Bershadker, ASPCA President & CEO As many of you know well, the consequences of poverty's impact on dogs, cats, and horses are felt very intensely by community shelters and rescues, The good news is that the animal welfare community is very resilientperhaps taking our cue from irrepressible animals themselves. Please enter valid email address to continue. Arrests of alleged animal abusers also tripled, from circa 40-45 per year under the ASPCA to more than 130 under the NYPC. Matthew Bershadker is President and CEO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the first animal welfare organization in America and a national leader in the rescue and protection of at-risk animals. There are all volunteer rescues out there with very little resources, begging for donations. Coming from a background in finance, Bershadker previously served as the ASPCA vice president for development, meaning he was a fundraiser, and then for a time was senior vice president of anti-cruelty programs, back before the ASPCA returned responsibility for doing anti-cruelty law enforcementthe first and oldest ASPCA missionto the New York City police department. Those images stayed with me. Matts interviews and broadcast appearances have appeared in national media ranging fromThe New York Times,The Washington Post, andThe Wall Street JournaltoRolling Stonemagazine,The Today Show,andGood Morning America. In that time, it has spent $146 million, or about 7% of the total money raised, in grants to local animal welfare groups. The ASPCA is not an umbrella organization for local organizations with SPCA in their names a fact the ASPCA says donors know. Bless your organization. According to its own 2017 survey, ASPCAsaid 84% of its donors also donated to a local animal charity. Latest news and commentary on Matthew Bershadker including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. Bershadker in 2018 was paid $712,397, plus $57,129 in benefits, for total compensation of $769,526. The ASPCA has never had affiliates anywhere else. BUT WHEN A NON-PROFIT IS SO UNMINDFUL OF THE BOTTOM LINE TO FORGET ABOUT THEIR PURPOSE NO THANKS. Each of the last 15 editions covered more than 150 leading charities. In cases like this, consideration for where the funds come from and for their intended use, should be a top consideration in whether it is ethical to make a millionaire out of its CEO. Jo Sullivan was an executive vice president at the ASPCA when the commercials came out and was part of the team that created them. Oh I forgot, this the ME GENERATION. The ASPCA says the vast majority of donor dollars go directlytoward its mission, Axelroad intoned, but a CBS News investigation found there arequestions about whether the money is going where donors expect.. The rest goes toward fundraising, image-building, fundraising and image-building done in the name of public education, and management expense. Source and destination shelters are collaborating with each other and with a wide range of logistical and animal welfare partners more than ever to make these lifesaving transfers happen, and I look forward to continuing that momentum with even more determination after the pandemic. It is also exasperating that the ASPCA meanwhile does not support, and even essentially opposes, animal-free vegan eating and instead puts donor money into falsely promoted humane poultry/animal production. Text STOP to opt-out, HELP for more info. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation with more than two million supporters nationwide, the ASPCA is committed to preventing cruelty to dogs, cats, equines, and farm animals throughout the United States. Most, like in Nassau County and Houston, had gotten nothing. For more information, visitwww.ASPCA.org, and follow the ASPCA onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram. We are honored by, and grateful for, the eight-dollar-a-month donors who have helped us and ANIMALS 24-7 to get this far. I would wager a guess that there are plenty of individuals who could, likewise, do the same level of work while earning a lot less. The ASPCA paid $9.2 million to Ringling Brothers to settle RICO charges. Fostering has been particularly impactful during this anxious period. Terms & Conditions / Privacy Policy, 2023American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I, along with the rest of the Board, look forward to working with him in his new role. I read an article about the politics of dog rescue just this past week that states that those commercials have become a kind of cultural touchtone for young adults, with many being traumatized by them in childhood. Before joining the ASPCA, Mr. Bershadker worked for ICF Consulting and Share Our Strength (SOS). Matt: My inspiration comes from the animals and the dedicated animal welfare professionals and volunteers who work tirelessly to protect them. Even in a contentious political climate, maybe more than you think. We dont like running deficits, even after squeezing and trimming all that we can. As a business man, I know we have to pay serious money for special talent but close to a million USD to head a charity??? Or they just dont care. More and more animal control agencies understand and embrace the idea that keeping pets safely at home and out of shelters is a primary goal. Matthew Bershadker, Self: Today. All of our work, including collaborations with local animal welfare organizations, rescue groups, law enforcement agencies, policy makers, and many others, is aimed at rescuing, protecting, and caring for animals in need. Watch Live: Closing arguments begin in double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege, Watch Live: Garland testifies amid ongoing special counsel investigations, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. Frederick Tanne. Thank you for what you do!!!!! Boggles my mind how long they have gotten away with this. What is their thinking on how much of the publics donations should go to the animals? More distinguished predecessors, all of whom ANIMALS 24-7 found lacking in some aspects of leadership, included, besides immediate predecessor Ed Sayres, Larry Hawk, the late Roger Caras, and the late John Kullberg. What caused a Board of Directors to agree to pay the CEO of the ASPCA an obscene salary like that? Thats pathetic and how much of that are they giving back to save these precious animals ?????? Darryl Hinton YouTube: AmericanTortRescue A big part of that ongoing series of scoops included covering why the big animal charities that existed even thenlike the ASPCAwere not managing to make much headway against the entrenched animal use industries, nor even in promoting spay/neuter and adoptions, so distracted were they with their then-focal role of killing tens of millions of cast-off and stray dogs and cats each year. It would seem to me that the president and CEO of ASPCA would be embarrassed and ashamed of accepting such and exhorbinant salary, as well as the salaries of the other officers of the organization while most line level staff are being paid a paltry sum. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns http://www.upc-online.org. ASPCApro: Have you seen similar changes in animal shelters? I just think everyone else should get proportionate consideration. CBS News decided to look at how each $19 donation is being spent. For 2019, when the ASPCA claimed assets of $393 million, Bershadker was paid $762,996, but that was not the slight cut it appeared to be at a glance because Bershadker also collected $80,543 in benefits. It is not just large shelters this happens in. "We have made significant strides on behalf of animals around the country, but there is much more to do. In 2018, Matt envisioned and led the creation of the ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center. Contrast this to a Charity Navigator study that showed the average non-profit CEO's compensation is $123,000. These trees are where hundreds of egrets like to sleep. ITS A SHAME ! Then in 2019 Bershakers total compensation rebounded to $843,539. They never got a dime from me and never will. From right: Fred Myer, Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers), Cleveland Amory, Ann Cottrell Free, & Henry Spira. Doris. Matthew E. Bershadker was named president and CEO of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in May 2013 and serves on the Global Animal Partnerships Board of Directors. Previously, Matthew was the Board Member at Gruber Family Foundation and also held positions at GFAS, Share Our Strength, RAINN. Privacy Policy Legal Info, Underwritten by United States Fire Insurance Company. They also started nesting there in the past few years. Under Mr. Bershadker's leadership, the ASPCA has risen to new heights in its response to cruelty and natural disasters. The focal issue, however, for Axelrod, Towey, and Bailey of CBS, was that ASPCA fundraising pitches allegedly mislead donors into mistakenly believing that the ASPCA is the fundraising umbrella for all 303 U.S. animal charities incorporated as Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Perhaps thats why they increased their fund raising so much; but it may mean that a large portion of it actually went to the media for advertising. YUCK! Located in Weaverville, North Carolina, the Center is the first-ever facility dedicated to providing behavioral rehabilitation to canine victims of cruelty and neglect. You might also have seen our IRS Form 990 filings, posted annually. Merritt Clifton & feline news source, 1984. Explained Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA president Ken White, It is not honest to say to people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area that sending the largest gift you can manage to help the ASPCA in Manhattan is the best way for them to help protect an innocent and helpless animal, a particular animal, an animal not far from where that donor lives., Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Gary Rogers, Jim Axelrod, Jo Sullivan, Ken White, Matt Bershadker, Megan Towey, Merritt Clifton, Patti Mercer, Rachel Bailey. The staff was dedicated, but they simply didnt have the resources they needed to place more of their dogs and cats into loving homes. A Board Member of the Global Animal Partnership, Matt received his Master of Business Administration degree from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Ohio University. Since 2008, the ASPCA has raised more than $2 billion for animal welfare, Axelrod summarized. And at that, the ASPCA adoption transport program in May 2019 had a disaster still inadequately acknowledged, let alone addressed in a transparent manner. I live in Concord, California, in a neighborhood called concord Northwood. But I hope action will be taken. We need our donors and the people in our community to know where their money is going., Agreed Gary Rogers, president of the Nassau County SPCA on Long Island, The major problem that most SPCAs have is that the ASPCAdoes not fund these agencies. [2] He holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School[3] and a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Ohio University. Muckrake (n): synonym for crusading journalist. It SHOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO BE PAID $852,372 thousand dollars that was donated!!!!! The national and local orgs are different. Mittendorf says that strategy isn't wrong, but it all comes down to expectations. Their breakdown showed that about 41 cents of each dollar donated to the ASPCA goes toward hands-on help withanimals across the country.. Thats enough to make me almost vomit!!!! Here, also, is the link to the CBS article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aspca-spending-donor-cbs-news-investigation/. In 2020, our ASPCA Shelter Medicine Services (SMS) team established the Julie Morris Shelter Medicine Residency Program, a New York City-based training program designed to provide intensive clinical training for licensed veterinarians interested in developing deep expertise in Shelter Medicine Practice, a very important and influential discipline weve supported for many years. By providing my mobile number, I agree to receive 2-4 text messages per month from the ASPCA, which may include requests for charitable donations. Im guessing you have no problem with the above. Additional Contacts at ASPCA. A few days ago we happened to have occasion to look at the recently posted American SPCA filing of IRS Form 990 for 2020. . I see animal cruelty non stop here it breaks my heart. Twitter/Insta: @tortoiserescue @worldturtleday. I fully agree with you but then the animals suffer even more! CEO of HSUS earns about $400,000 and no others much over $200,000. There is some colossal confusion here. This sadness is compounded by the fact that the ASPCA gives viewers the false impression that the organization is literally rescuing dogs and cats from the cold, and finding good homes for them, whereas that isnt so. We advertised it for four months, while discovering that keeping up with a 24-7 news cycle did not allow time for doing anything else as time-consuming (and non-lucrative) as the financial reviews of charities had been. Matthew E.s income mostly comes from and basic source is being a successful American President and CEO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Visit: http://www.aspca.org/ Matt Bershadker. And Matt Bershadker has perhaps the most mediocre record on actual behalf of animals of any ASPCA president in more than four decades. I have pleaded with the ASPCA to help animals in need in Oregon to no avail. The group is an advocacy organization that seeks to prevent cruelty toward animals. And did not get one reply or even a person on the phone. Matt Bershadker is president and CEO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the first animal welfare organization in America and a national leader in the rescue and protection of at-risk animals. The term humane society is also generic, and is used by more than 3,000 independent animal charities in the U.S. alone; many more abroad. Then in 2019 Bershaker's total compensation rebounded to $843,539. That increase in interest and activity is very good news for shelters, animals, and communities. But Charity Navigator only gave the ASPCA two out of four stars for its financials based on efficiency of fundraising, the percentage of revenue spent on fundraising and the practice of selling donor lists. It helps to already be famous to become a social media influencer, but he demonstrates that you need to have a raw or personal touch and engage with your followers if you want to do well on Instagram Facebook, Twiter, Youtube, etc. Before joining the ASPCA in 2001, Matt worked for ICF Consulting and organizations including Share Our Strength. There is no reason they should be making the kind of money they are getting. I think I speak for all of us when I say our work is primarily inspired and grounded by our drive to help animals in need, a principle that has guided me both personally and professionally over the past two decades. Perhaps you can be among them? How do they keep non-profit status? The ASPCA donates on average, 7% of its collected donations in the form of grants to pet shelters, annually. This is an expos (and appeal) that Beth & I really did not want to have to write, but one of our faithful & reliable donors of $8.00 per month persuaded us that we had to because donors like her, for the most part, are paying not only for the existence of ANIMALS 24-7, but for the existence of the entire animal protection & advocacy cause. For small shelters, unlike the ASPCA, which does intensive image-building advertising that boosts fundraising, advertising animals for adoption is often the most expensive part of rehoming the animals. Fortunately, most U.S. non-profit animal shelters and spay/neuter clinics appear to have disregarded the ASPCA advice. But during that same time period it spent nearly three times that, at least $421 million, on fundraising. Most, like inNassau County and Houston, had gotten nothing. The next year, 2018, Bershadker was paid $712,397, plus $57,129 in benefits, for total compensation of $769,526. Upon launching ANIMALS 24-7, in 2014, Beth & I initially hoped to continue this project in an online format. The Centers Learning Lab also disseminates rehabilitative innovations and best practices to shelters around the country. As a volunteer at the North West SPCA, in Oroville, California, Ive frequently had people tell me, I give money to you guys all the time. Mr. Bershadker is a 12-year veteran of the ASPCA, serving most recently as Senior Vice President of the Anti-Cruelty Group (ACG). The heartbreaking commercials are almost impossible to ignore: Sarah McLachlan singing to images of suffering animals and making an urgent appeal for donations to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA. (See ASPCA spending may not be what donors expect, CBS News investigation finds. While it does fund projects in California, such expenditure is insignificant in comparison to the amount of money the organization raises in this state, Hughes charged. "If we just look at how much of the spending goes toward shelter and veterinary services, and toward grants to local humane societies, it's hovering around 40%.". For several years after that an ASPCA flagship program wasand remainscross-country translocation of dogs from southern and rural pounds to northern cities where they might have better chances of adoption. Mr. Bershadker serves on the board of the Gruber Family Foundation and Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. These days, Axelrod explained, Sullivan is the chief community and development officer at the Houston SPCA in Texas. l live in western Colorado. At the age of years, Matthew E. Bershadker weight not available right now. Seven other ASPCA executives received compensation ranging from more than $300,000 to more than $400,000, in the pay range of the chief executives of the four other most affluent U.S. humane societies. They have all meant so much to me and my family. Ive had several adopted dogs since, including my current pair: five-year-old Tarzan from a rescue in Texas, and three-year-old Loki, a service dog dropout from Missouri. This includes things that include appeals for donations like telemarketing and direct mailings. We always have. News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & nature, Beth and Merritt with our friends(Beth Clifton collage). Thank you for your many years of alerting people to such grotesquely excessive financial compensation. Even after taking a pay cut of $91,975, which happens to be more than the top salary paid by most local humane societies around the U.S., ANIMALS 24-7 noted, Bershadker remained the highest paid person in the history of the humane movement, by a considerable margin.. Before becoming President and CEO, Matt served the ASPCA as Senior Vice President of ASPCA Anti-Cruelty, Vice President of Development, Senior Director of Major Gifts and Special Events, and Senior Director of Partnership Marketing. These comments that all these people are making against the CEO making a $852,000 as a total salary and compensation well, I agree with their comments. That visit changed the course of his career. Gary Rogers Nassau County SPCA(Beth Clifton collage), Said Sullivan, It is frustrating on this side of the table to realize that the bulk of our time and our staff time is spent trying to explain the difference between national and local. I love ANIMALS 24-7 and the great work you do to save animals. But according to Jo Sullivan at the Houston SPCA, not everyone is granted access to the list, even if they are willing to pay. Donor ignorance, not mendacity of the two national orgs, is the problemif there is a problem, which I dont think there is. But its clear that modern shelters need to look broadly at the needs of people and pets in their communities versus just the needs of animals in their facilities, focusing more on the causes of animal homelessnesslike financial strain and barriers to resourcesversus the consequences of animal homelessnessnamely, ending up in a shelter or worse. A few had received grants worth a few thousand dollarsfrom the ASPCA, which they had applied for. The nation-shocking expos that followed, researched by CBS reporters Megan Towey and Rachel Bailey, was partially informed by information shared by ANIMALS 24-7, and reported many times, over decades, with frequent updates. Take the donations and doesnt help ALL the animals they say they will?? The ASPCA is among the oldest humane organizations in the world, founded in 1866, and has been among the richest right from the beginning, when founder Henry Bergh passed his famously deep top hat among fellow New York City investors, industrialists, and socialites to get it started. It is because people including yourselves and ourselves, legions of eight-dollar-a-month donors and $9.70 an hour workers and volunteers, together built a movement. Between 2009 and 2019, the ASPCA made more than $3.2 million selling donor lists. Maybe the compensation numbers are a little high. Artists conception of Matt Bershadker and friend. Bershadker has now been at the ASPCA for 21 years. If they truly care about their work, they shouldnt need to live rich while doing it. Neither is any local SPCA across the country. Originally the term SPCA specifically meant a humane society with limited law enforcement powers, but few such humane societies exist in the 21st century, and none are anywhere near Grand Junction, Colorado. Many of our vets are paid more than Vinod and Dawn! Matthew's ethnicity is Native American, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Democrat; and religious views are listed as unknown. This is not something that can be discovered from public records. And with a rating like that, I'm confused why ASPCA's CEO Matthew Bershadker received an annual salary of $800,000 in 2017 and $770,000 in 2018! After college, I was a pet-sitter for some of my friends, and when one of them wanted to adopt a second dog, I went with him to a local Washington, DCshelter. The Anti-Cruelty Group evolved from a fledgling team of responders to a robust, national program that confronts animal cruelty and suffering on all levels across the country. Steve Hindi, arguably the most accomplished animal rights advocate of the past 30 years, has never taken a cent of compensation from his organization, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK]. President And CEO Of The American Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (ASPCA) Thank you for replying. This is why we provided $5 million in grant funding to help shelter and rescue organizations cover operating and program expenses and receive capacity support. Cattle egrets, in short, tend not to have many friends, even among the most avid bird advocates, despite being a very useful species for their contributions to insect control, and a readily watchable species. The team has investigated hundreds of cases around the country. Hello, SERIOUSLY, that is an UNMITIGATED DISGRACE if the head of the ASPCA gets that much money. The ASPCA says the vast majority of donor dollars go directly toward its mission, but a CBS News investigation found there are questions about whether the money is going where donors expect. Rather, for most of our donors, as for most donors to every animal charity, there are just too many hard choices to be made among worthwhile-sounding organizations and projects, with not enough ways to meaningfully divide eight bucks. Currently working as President and Chief Executive Officer at ASPCA in New york, United States. Board Member. The nearest ASPCA is in Grand Junction Colo. A lifelong animal lover, he first joined the nation's first animal welfare organization in 2001, serving most recently as Senior Vice President of the ASPCA Anti-Cruelty Group, the division responsible for programs that confront animal cruelty and suffering across the country. Chief executive Matthew Bershadker took home $966,004 in pay for the year, including $856,673 from the ASPCA itself and $109,331 from ASPCA subsidiaries--which most donors would consider an excellent annual income by itself. Do you know how much the ASPCA spends on advertising? Nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator gives the ASPCA three out of four stars overall, which is a "good" rating meaning that the charity meets or exceeds industry standards and performs as well or better than most charities in that cause. 0. Here we are updating just estimated networth of Matthew E. Bershadker salary, income and assets. In that time, it has spent $146 million, or about 7% of the total money raised, in grants to local animal welfare groups. The good news is that the animal welfare community is very resilientperhaps taking our cue from irrepressible animals themselves. 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