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OMB No. 1545-0047
2021
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Inspection
Inspection
Name of the organization
ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION
Employer identification number
82-5477192
82-5477192
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| FORM 990, PART III, LINES 1, 4A, 4B AND 4C | ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION (AWA), ALONG WITH ITS AFFILIATES THE CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY, INC. (CENTER) AND ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION (AWF), WORK TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO ALL ANIMALS, TAKING ON THE ANIMAL-USE SECTORS THAT THREATEN TO DO THE MOST HARM TO ANIMALS. AWA CLOSED 2022 WITH VERY TANGIBLE VICTORIES TO HELP ANIMALS AT RISK FROM LONG-STANDING AND EXTREMELY HARMFUL PRACTICES CONDUCTED IN SEVERAL MAJOR SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY. THESE WERE SIGNATURE GAINS IN OUR BROADER QUEST TO SET GUARDRAILS ON HOW PEOPLE, AT LEAST IN SOME INDUSTRIES, SHOULD TREAT ANIMALS. THESE NEW LEGAL STANDARDS, IF PROPERLY ADHERED TO BY CITIZENS AND ENFORCED BY AUTHORITIES, WILL YIELD BENEFITS FOR COUNTLESS BILLIONS OF ANIMALS OVER TIME, WITHIN TERRESTRIAL AND OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS. WE WORKED TO PASS FIVE MAJOR NEW FEDERAL LAWS FOR ANIMALS AND ALSO SECURED MILLIONS IN NEW FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OF PREVIOUSLY ENACTED LAWS. EVERY YEAR, THE CONGRESS CONSIDERS UPWARDS OF 15,000 BILLS, WITH ONLY ABOUT 250 CROSSING THE FINISH LINE. SECURING THE ANIMAL PROTECTION LAWS IN 2002, FROM PERHAPS A TOTAL OF 15 ANIMAL PROTECTION REFORM MEASURES THAT WE CONCENTRATED ON PRESENTING TO CONGRESS, IS A REMARKABLE SUCCESS RATIO, ESPECIALLY COMPARING IT TO THE BROADER FAILURE RATE OF INTRODUCED LEGISLATION. OUR SUCCESS RATE IS WITHOUT PEER IN THE ANIMAL PROTECTION MOVEMENT. AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IN TERMS OF DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY AND MASS NUMBER OF POTENTIAL ANIMALS SAVED IS OUR WIN TO ADDRESS THE MASS USE OF ANIMALS IN SCIENCE FOR TESTING: AWA ELIMINATED THE FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETIC ACT'S 84-YEAR-OLD MANDATE FOR ANIMAL TESTING FOR NEW DRUG DEVELOPMENT. THE FDA MODERNIZATION ACT 2.0 WILL BENEFIT DOGS, RABBITS, AND OTHER DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. BUT IT WILL ALSO BENEFIT WILDLIFE, INCLUDING PRIMATES CAPTURED IN THE WILD AND SENT TO LABORATORIES IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING ENDANGERED ANIMALS. INDEED, PROTECTING WILDLIFE WAS A BIG THEME FOR US IN 2022. ALSO IN CONGRESS, WE HELPED GET THE SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT OVER THE FINISH LINE - SHUTTING DOWN THE TRADE IN FINS FOR SOUP IN THE U.S. THAT COMES FROM THE RUTHLESS PRACTICE OF PEOPLE CATCHING SHARKS IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS AND CUTTING OFF THE APPENDAGES THAT ALLOW THEM TO MOVE IN OCEAN WATERS. WE ALSO HAD A SIGNATURE WIN FOR TERRESTRIAL PREDATORS. WITH A WIDE RANGE OF OTHER ANIMAL WELFARE AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, WE SUCCEEDED IN A MAJOR LAWSUIT TO RESTORE FEDERAL PROTECTIONS FOR WOLVES ACROSS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SQUARE MILES OF THEIR RANGE IN THE LOWER 48 STATES. WE GOT CLOSE TO ENDING MINK FARMING BY WINNING A FIRST-EVER VOTE IN THE HOUSE ON THE RANK ABUSE OF WILD MINK ON FACTORY FARMS. WE DID, HOWEVER, COME UP SHORT IN THE SENATE, WHOSE MEMBERS DID NOT PROPERLY ASSESS THE ZOONOTIC DISEASE THREATS POSED BY KEEPING WILD, SOLITARY MINK IN EXTREME CONFINEMENT - ALL TO SELL MINK PELTS TO THE CHINESE, WHO ARE HAPPY TO OUTSOURCE THESE VIRAL THREATS TO THE U.S. BUT WE ARE ENCOURAGED ABOUT A PROPOSED RULEMAKING TO ESTABLISH THE FIRST ANTI-CONFINEMENT STANDARDS IN FEDERAL LAW FOR HENS, PIGS, AND COWS RAISED UNDER THE ORGANIC LABEL. AND WE CONTINUE TO BE THE LEADING ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION FOR HORSES - FIGHTING TO HALT HORSE SORING AND SLAUGHTER, END ABUSES AND MISCONDUCT IN HORSE RACING, AND KEEP WILD HORSES AND BURROS FREE AND SAFE ON THE RANGE. THIS YEAR, WE ALSO CONVINCED THE U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL TO BREAK ITS ABSOLUTE BAN ON IMPORTS OF DOGS FROM MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES, AFTER THE AGENCY OVERREACTED TO A HANDFUL OF DOGS WITH RABIES WHO WERE PRESENTED FOR IMPORT BUT NEVER CLEARED THE SCREENING PROCESS FOR ENTRY INTO THE U.S. IN 2022, WE HELPED SECURE A SERIES OF WINS IN THE FEDERAL COURTS TO BEAT BACK EFFORTS BY COCKFIGHTERS TO CHALLENGE THE NATIONAL ANIMAL FIGHTING LAW AND TO ESTABLISH THAT STAGED ANIMAL FIGHTING IS BANNED ON EVERY INCH OF U.S SOIL - FROM PUERTO RICO TO OKLAHOMA TO GUAM. MEANWHILE ON THE GROUND, WE WORKED TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE AND WORK WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO TARGET KINGPINS IN THE BUSINESS OF COCKFIGHTING AND TO DISMANTLE THE NETWORK OF COCKFIGHTING TRAFFICKERS OPERATING THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AWA IS A LEAN, HARD-HITTING, HIGHLY STRATEGIC, AND EXTRAORDINARILY EFFECTIVE POLICY AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, WORKING TO CHANGE LEGAL STANDARDS FOR ANIMALS AND TO SEE THAT LAWS ARE ENFORCED. WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AWF ON DIRECT CARE AND WITH THE CENTER ON CORPORATE REFORMS, WE ARE A TRIUMVIRATE OF ORGANIZATIONS, WITH SEVERAL KEY AND CLOSELY ALLIED OTHER PARTNERS, THAT ARE DRIVING CHANGE FOR ANIMALS ON THE BIGGEST LEVELS. A LANDSLIDE OF LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES IN 2022: AWA CONCEIVED OR PLAYED A LEADING OR CRITICAL ROLE IN THE NOVEL PASSAGE OF BILLS AND ENACTMENT OF LAWS, AS WELL AS FIXING OR STRENGTHENING ANIMAL-PROTECTION MEASURES. HERE IS A LIST WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR SUCCESSFUL CONGRESSIONAL WORK IN 2022: FDA MODERNIZATION ACT AND REDUCING ANIMAL TESTING ACT THESE MEASURES ELIMINATE THE 84-YEAR-OLD FEDERAL MANDATE THAT ALL NEW DRUGS AND BIOSIMILARS MUST BE TESTED FIRST ON LIVE ANIMALS BEFORE GOING TO HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS. AWA ALSO HELPED SECURED $12.5 MILLION TO SUPPORT AN FDA-WIDE NEW ALTERNATIVE METHODS PROGRAM THAT WILL BE USED TO REDUCE ANIMAL TESTING AND IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE FDA MODERNIZATION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT BIDEN IN DECEMBER. BIG CAT PUBLIC SAFETY ACT AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE-LONG FIGHT, WE HELPED ENGINEER THE PASSAGE OF THE BIG CAT PUBLIC SAFETY ACT TO STRENGTHEN THE FEDERAL LAW BANNING TRADE IN BIG CATS AS PETS AND THEN SHUTTING DOWN THE COMMERCIAL CUB-PETTING OPERATIONS THAT USE TIGER CUBS AND KITTENS AS PROPS. IT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW BY PRESIDENT BIDEN IN DECEMBER. SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT THIS NEW LAW PROHIBITS THE SALE OF SHARK FINS IN THE U.S., TAKING FINS OFF THE MENU AT ANY RESTAURANT AND RETAILER OFFERING UP THIS PRODUCT FOR USE IN SOUPS. THE KILLING OF SHARKS FOR FINS PRODUCES TENS OF MILLIONS OF SHARKS MUTILATED AND KILLED ACROSS THE OCEANS EVERY YEAR, AND THE ENACTMENT OF THIS BILL CLOSES OFF THE MAJOR U.S. MARKET FOR THIS COMMERCE. IT ALSO SIGNALS TO OTHER NATIONS THAT THE TRADE IN THE PARTS OF THESE ANIMALS SHOULD END THERE AS WELL. IT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT. HORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY ACT THIS MEASURE FIXES A PROVISION OF THE EXISTING HORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY ACT (HISA) TO KEEP A NATIONAL LAW IN PLACE DESIGNED TO END RACE-DAY DOPING IN THE THOROUGHBRED INDUSTRY. THE HORSE PROTECTION ACT WHILE WE HAVEN'T YET SUCCEEDED IN UPGRADING THE FEDERAL LAW BANNING THE BARBARIC PRACTICE OF HORSE SORING, WE DID SECURE RECORD FUNDING OF $4.1 MILLION FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THE EXISTING HORSE PROTECTION ACT (HPA), WHICH DOES LIMIT PLACING SORED HORSES (HORSES THAT ARE INTENTIONALLY HARMED AND GIVEN SORES TO FORCE A DESIRED GAIT) IN HORSE SHOW COMPETITIONS. |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINES 1, 4A, 4B AND 4C - CONTINUED | ANMAL WELFARE CAMPAIGNS IN ACTION THIS YEAR THERE IS MUCH TO CELEBRATE FOR AWA AND ITS GAME-CHANGING WINS IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS, BUT EVERY ONE OF OUR DETAILED AND WELL-DEFINED CAMPAIGNS THIS YEAR INVOLVES OTHER PATHWAYS TOWARD PROVEN SUCCESS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE, TOO. IN ADDITION TO SECURING KEY GAINS, WE MOVED FORWARD A WIDE RANGE OF OTHER EFFORTS, PUTTING US IN A POSITION TO SUCCEED IN 2023 AND BEYOND. CAMPAIGN: MODERNIZE TESTING LANDMARK MEASURES ENACTED TO REDUCE ANIMAL TESTING AWA'S BIGGEST WIN THIS YEAR IN TERMS OF SHEER NUMBERS OF ANIMALS THAT WILL BE POSITIVELY AFFECTED CAME IN DECEMBER WHEN FEDERAL LAWMAKERS PASSED THE FDA MODERNIZATION ACT 2.0 - INCLUDING BOTH THE ORIGINAL FDA MODERNIZATION ACT AND ALSO THE REDUCING ANIMAL TESTING ACT - TO ELIMINATE A FEDERAL MANDATE FOR ANIMAL TESTING FOR NEW DRUGS AND FOR BIOSIMILARS. THIS MEASURE THAT IS NOW LAW AFTER BEING SIGNED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON DECEMBER 23 WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE COUNTLESS SCORES OF ANIMALS - DOGS, RABBITS, CHIMPANZEES, MICE, RATS AND MORE - BRED AND SOLD EVERY YEAR FOR LABORATORY TESTING, BECAUSE THE LARGE MAJORITY OF LAB ANIMALS ARE USED FOR DRUG PROTOCOLS. THERE WERE TWO MAJOR ROUTES TO VICTORY, AND IN THE END, WE SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THE MEASURE HITCHED TO A MASSIVE, END-OF-YEAR SPENDING BILL. WE'D BEEN SET UP FOR SUCCESS BECAUSE SENS. RAND PAUL AND CORY BOOKER LED AN EFFORT TO PASS IT AS A STAND-ALONE MEASURE IN THE SENATE IN LATE SEPTEMBER AND KEY HOUSE ALLIES ATTACHED A VERSION OF THE LEGISLATION AS AN AMENDMENT TO A LARGER HOUSE LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE EARLIER IN THE YEAR. IN SHORT, WE'VE PASSED THE MEASURE TWICE IN BOTH CHAMBERS, UNDERSCORING THAT WE FRAMED THE ISSUE IN THE RIGHT WAY, BUILT A BASE OF REMARKABLE BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, AND THEN DROVE IT HOME BY BUILDING A DIVERSE COALITION OF STAKEHOLDERS AND GENERATING GRASSROOTS ENERGY TO PROMPT THE CONGRESS TO MOVE. ENACTMENT OF THE MEASURE PUNCTUATES THE BIGGEST POLICY WIN ON THE ISSUE OF ANIMAL TESTING IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. ON A SIGNIFICANT PARALLEL TRACK, WE SUCCEEDED IN SECURING $12.5 MILLION (INCLUDING $5 MILLION IN NEW MONEY) TO SUPPORT AN FDA-WIDE NEW ALTERNATIVE METHODS PROGRAM TO REDUCE ANIMAL TESTING. THIS ADDITIONAL MONEY WILL BUILD THE TOOLKIT ON ALTERNATIVES, AS WE TURN TO PRESSING FDA AND PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DRUG DEVELOPERS TO EMBRACE ALTERNATIVE METHODS AND WORK ON DRAMATICALLY REDUCING THE NUMBERS OF DOGS, PRIMATES, MICE, RATS, AND OTHER ANIMALS USED IN TESTING. ENACTMENT OF THE FDA MODERNIZATION ACT WILL REBOOT A BROKEN DRUG DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM, AND IF FOLLOW-UP WORK IS DILIGENT, IT WILL DELIVER SAFER, MORE EFFECTIVE, MORE RELIABLE PALLIATIVES AND CURES TO PEOPLE IN NEED. WE ARE PLANNING ON GLOBALIZING THE CAMPAIGN AND SECURING SIMILAR POLICIES IN OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS. GLOBAL DRUG COMPANIES WILL WANT TO HARMONIZE THE RULES OF DRUG DEVELOPMENT. RELATED TO FDA: PUTTING ANIMALS IN POLITICS AWA PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN DEFEATING ANIMAL-TESTING PRACTITIONER IN SENATE RACE IN A DEFT AND TIMELY MOVE THAT IS INTIMATELY TIED TO VALUES AND GOALS WITHIN AWA'S MODERNIZE TESTING CAMPAIGN, AWA PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN DEFEATING DR. MEHMET OZ AS HE RAN FOR A SENATE SEAT IN PENNSYLVANIA IN 2022 BY SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON HIS EGREGIOUS ACTS TOWARD ANIMALS IN A LABORATORY HE OVERSAW. IN FACT, ANIMAL ISSUES NEVER HAD A MORE PROMINENT ROLE IN A MAJOR POLITICAL RACE IN AMERICA THAN IN THIS RACE. AWA AND OTHER OUTSIDE GROUPS SPENT MORE THAN $3 MILLION ON TV AND DIGITAL ADS TO ELEVATE THE ISSUE OF ANIMAL TESTING BECAUSE OF DR. OZ'S STARTLING RECORD OF INHUMANE ANIMAL TESTING AND HIS FAILURE TO PROVIDE ASSURANCES THAT HE WOULD SUPPORT POLICY EFFORTS TO REDUCE ANIMAL TESTING. THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER REPORTED THAT DR. OZ'S EXPERIMENT ON DOGS MAY HAVE DOOMED HIS CAMPAIGN, WITH OZ AND HIS RESEARCH TEAM CONDUCTING TESTS ON MORE THAN 1,000 ANIMALS, INCLUDING 330 BEAGLES, BETWEEN 1989 AND 2010 AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. THE MISTREATMENT WAS SEVERE ENOUGH TO PROMPT USDA TO ISSUE CITATIONS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ACT VIOLATIONS AND FINE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FOR THE ABUSES. WE VERY CAREFULLY TARGET LAWMAKERS, WHETHER DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS, IF THEY ACTIVELY WORK AGAINST ANIMAL PROTECTION VALUES. IT'S OUR VIEW THAT OPPOSITION TO ANIMAL CRUELTY SHOULD BE A UNIVERSAL VALUE AND THAT LAWMAKERS OF ALL IDEOLOGICAL TYPES SHOULD FAVOR MAINSTREAM REFORMS TO SPARE ANIMALS FROM ABUSE. CAMPAIGN: NO BIG CATS AS PETS (OR PROPS) COMMERCIAL TIGER AND LION CUB-PETTING INDUSTRY SHUT DOWN JUST LIKE WITH ANIMAL TESTING, OUR WORK TO SHUT DOWN THE DANGEROUS AND CRUEL BUSINESS OF KEEPING BIG CATS - MOSTLY LIONS AND TIGERS - FOR COMMERCIAL CUB-PETTING OPERATIONS HAS BEEN A TOUGH ONE TO SHUT DOWN. BUT AFTER A LONG, 11-YEAR CAMPAIGN TO END THE TRADE IN BIG CATS AS PETS AND SHUT DOWN THESE ROADSIDE ZOOS AND FAKE SANCTUARIES, 2022 WAS THE YEAR AWA CLOSED THE DOOR ON THESE POORLY THOUGHT-OUT OPERATIONS AFTER THE HOUSE AND SENATE TOOK FINAL ACTION ON THE MEASURES AND THEN PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNED THE BIG CAT PUBLIC SAFETY ACT, H.R. 263, INTO LAW. THIS BILL CLOSES OUT THE CUB-PETTING INDUSTRY, WHICH BREEDS TIGERS AND LIONS TO ALLOW PATRONS TO HANDLE CUBS FOR A FEE. THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF BIG CATS KEPT IN PRIVATE HANDS, AND JUST A DECADE AGO, THERE WERE MORE THAN 60 CUB-PETTING MENAGERIES. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, IN ADDITION TO SECURING THE SUPPORT OF ALL DEMOCRATS AND DOZENS OF REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE, AWA WORKED WITH ALL 50 REPUBLICANS AND ALL 50 DEMOCRATS TO SECURE THEIR SUPPORT. EVEN A SINGLE SENATOR COULD HAVE BLOCKED THE BILL, AND WE CREDIT EVERY ONE OF THE SENATORS FOR SUPPORTING THE IDEA OF STOPPING INHUMANE TREATMENT OF BIG CATS. WE WORKED PARTICULARLY CLOSELY WITH HOWARD AND CAROLE BASKIN AND BIG CAT RESCUE ON THE MEASURE, AND THEY WERE STEADFAST AND HIGH-IMPACT PARTNERS, ALONG WITH THE NATIONAL SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION AND THE ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS. CAMPAIGN: BANNING THE SHARK FIN TRADE SHARK FIN SALES OUTLAWED IN THE UNITED STATES SIMILAR TO THE BIG CAT BILL, WHICH WAS FIRST INTRODUCED IN 2011, IT'S BEEN A STRUGGLE TO SECURE AN END TO A PRACTICE CALLED SHARK FINNING IN OUR COUNTRY, NOT TO MENTION THE WORLD. BUT IN 2022, AWA SAW ITS WORK TO BAN SHARK FINNING SUCCEED WITH PASSAGE OF THE SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT. SHARK FINNING IS THE ABHORRENT AND IRRESPONSIBLE ACT OF SHARK HUNTERS WHO CAN MAKE A BUCK FROM SLICING OFF A SHARK'S FIN AND DISCARDING THE LIVING BODY BACK INTO THE WATERS TO DROWN. REMOVING APEX PREDATORS IN THIS MANNER IS NOT ONLY INHUMANE, BUT LOSSES OF LARGE NUMBERS FOR THE SHARK FIN SOUP INDUSTRY CAN HAVE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOR WHOLE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. "SHARK FINNING CONJURES UP THE CRUELTY AND WANTON DESTRUCTION OF THE MEDIEVAL ERA. BUT IT'S MORE OF A MODERN EVIL, AND THE UNITED STATES HAS DETERMINED THIS TRADE IS NO LONGER LEGAL IN OUR NATION. NOBODY REALLY KNOWS THE GLOBAL TOLL ON SHARKS KILLED FOR THEIR FINS, BUT IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED AT AN EYE-POPPING 70 MILLION A YEAR." AWA PRESIDENT WAYNE PACELLE THE SHARK FIN SALES PROHIBITION BILL HAD AMASSED OVERWHELMING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE, WITH THE FIRST FORMULATION INTRODUCED MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS AGO. BUT IT HAD NEVER GOTTEN OVER THE FINISH LINE. THIS ANTI-FIN-SALES LEGISLATION CAME IN THE WAKE OF TWO OTHER SHARK PROTECTION MEASURES IN THE LAST TWO DECADES: 1) THE SHARK FINNING PROHIBITION ACT OF 2000 AMENDED THE MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT (MSA) TO PROHIBIT SHARK FINNING IN U.S. WATERS, AND 2) THE SHARK CONSERVATION ACT OF 2010 AMENDED THE HIGH SEAS DRIFTNET FISHING MORATORIUM PROTECTION ACT AND THE MSA TO REQUIRE THAT SHARKS BROUGHT TO AMERICAN SHORES HAVE FINS INTACT. IN 2022, AWA CAN PROUDLY SAY THAT SHARK FINS ARE OFF ALL MENUS IN THE UNITED STATES, SINCE CONGRESS PASSED THE SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, WHICH WAS SIGNED INTO LAW IN DECEMBER. LIKE THE BAN ON THE SALE OF DOG AND CAT MEAT IN THE UNITED STATES, U.S. LEADERSHIP WILL BE ATTENTION-GETTING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING IN NATIONS WHERE THERE IS STILL AN APPETITE FOR SHARK FIN SOUP. |
| FORM 990, PART III, LINES 1, 4A, 4B AND 4C - CONTINUED | CAMPAIGN: END COCKFIGHTING BAN ON ANIMAL FIGHTING IN U.S. TERRITORIES AFFIRMED AND COCKFIGHTING CONVICTIONS, STEMMING FROM OUR INVESTIGATIONS AWA AND ITS PARTNERS ARE LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF COCKFIGHTING. IN 2022, WE PUT A PUNCTUATION MARK ON OUR CAMPAIGN THAT HAS ENDED ALL LEGAL DOGFIGHTING AND COCKFIGHTING ON U.S. SOIL. WITH OUR SUBMITTING PLEADINGS IN EVERY CASE - ALONG WITH STEERING ENACTMENT OF THE 2018 LAW AGAINST ANIMAL FIGHTING IN ALL PARTS OF THE U.S. - THE FEDERAL COURTS DELIVERED A SERIES OF FAVORING RULINGS ON ANIMAL FIGHTING. THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT HAD AFFIRMED A RULING OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF GUAM THAT CONGRESS HAS THE AUTHORITY TO BAR ANIMAL FIGHTING THROUGHOUT THE U.S., CEMENTING THE BAN ON COCKFIGHTING IN FIVE U.S. TERRITORIES THAT HAVE BEEN MAJOR HOTSPOTS FOR STAGED FIGHTS. BUT COCKFIGHTERS NOT SURPRISINGLY PUSHED BACK IN THEIR DESIRE TO KEEP HARMING ANIMALS FOR THEIR SICK IDEA OF ENTERTAINMENT. ONE FORMER NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS POLITICIAN - A SELF-DESCRIBED LIFELONG COCKFIGHTER - TRIED HIS BEST TO INVALIDATE THE FEDERAL BAN ON COCKFIGHTING IN THE PACIFIC-ISLAND TERRITORY. BUT IN NOVEMBER, AWA AND ITS ALLIED GROUPS WON, AND A U.S. DISTRICT COURT DISMISSED HIS CLAIM. STATESIDE, AWA CONGRATULATED FEDERAL PROSECUTORS FOR SECURING FEDERAL PRISON TIME FOR ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST ELABORATE COCKFIGHTING SYNDICATES, WITH BRENT EASTERLING AND SEVERAL RELATIVES BASED IN ALABAMA GOING TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR THEIR ILLEGAL ANIMAL FIGHTING VENTURES. AWA PROVIDED COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT AIDED THE GOVERNMENT'S INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION, AND ULTIMATELY LED TO THE CONVICTION OF SEVEN PEOPLE IN ALABAMA. "EVERY COCKFIGHTER IN THE UNITED STATES SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO AN ALABAMA FAMILY THAT WAS KNEE-DEEP IN THE ENTERPRISE OF COCKFIGHTING. THESE COCKFIGHTERS HAVE LOST THEIR ASSETS AND THEIR FREEDOM. THAT'S THE POTENTIAL FATE OF ANYONE INVOLVED IN THE BARBARIC PRACTICE OF STAGED ANIMAL FIGHTING." - AWA PRESIDENT WAYNE PACELLE CAMPAIGN: SAVING WOLVES GREAT LAKES WOLVES SPARED FROM TRAPPING, HOUNDING, HUNTING WOLVES ACROSS MUCH OF THEIR RANGE IN THE LOWER 48 STATES GOT A MAJOR DOSE OF PROTECTION WHEN A FEDERAL JUDGE RESTORED FEDERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROTECTIONS FOR THE ANIMALS. AWA AND THE CENTER PARTICIPATED IN THIS CASE WITH OTHER KEY ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE NATION, AND IT CAME AFTER OUR SUCCESSFUL STATE LAWSUIT IN 2021 TO HALT TROPHY HUNTING AND TRAPPING IN WISCONSIN. HAD THE FEDERAL LAWSUIT NOT SUCCEEDED, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, AND WISCONSIN COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY RESTARTED WOLF HUNTING AND TRAPPING PROGRAMS IN THE UPPER GREAT LAKES STATES AND COLLECTIVELY KILLED 1,000 WOLVES A YEAR. THE FEDERAL COURT RULING NOT ONLY PREVENTS SPORT KILLING, BUT IT LIMITS DAMAGE-CONTROL KILLING IN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN TO THREATS TO HUMAN LIFE (A VERY RARE EXCEPTION SINCE WOLVES ALMOST NEVER THREATEN PEOPLE). CAMPAIGN: CREATING A CAGE-FREE FUTURE USDA PROPOSES FIRST-EVER FARM ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS AT OUR URGING, AND THAT OF OTHER GROUPS LONG-ENGAGED ON THIS TOPIC, THIS YEAR THE USDA RELEASED ITS PROPOSED ORGANIC LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY STANDARDS RULE, WHICH CALLS FOR ELEVATED ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS IN ORGANIC ANIMAL AGRICULTURE. THE NEW RULE STIPULATES ANIMALS RAISED UNDER THE ORGANIC" LABEL GAIN VERY SPECIFIC PROTECTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO HOUSING AND OTHER HUSBANDRY STANDARDS, INCLUDING THE PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN PAINFUL PRACTICES, SUCH AS TAIL-DOCKING OF PIGS AND CATTLE AND DEBEAKING OF BIRDS. IMPORTANTLY, THE RULE SETS MINIMUM INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR EGG-LAYING CHICKENS AND REQUIRES THAT PRODUCERS PROVIDE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF EXITS AND OUTDOOR ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO ENTICE BIRDS TO GO OUTSIDE ON A DAILY BASIS. IT ALSO SPECIFIES THAT COVERED PORCHES AND SIMILAR STRUCTURES DO NOT QUALIFY AS OUTDOOR SPACE. NOW WE NEED TO SEE A FINAL RULEMAKING ACTION THAT PROVIDES ONLY A SHORT PHASE-IN PERIOD AND THEN VIGOROUS OVERSIGHT. CAMPAIGN: KEEPING WILD HORSES WILD POSITIVE NEWS FOR HORSES ON THE RANGE AND AT RISK OF SLAUGHTER IN ITS END-OF-YEAR SPENDING BILL, CONGRESS CONTINUED A BAN ON FUNDING ANY HORSE-SLAUGHTER INSPECTIONS IN THE U.S., THEREBY EXTENDING THE DE FACTO END OF HORSE SLAUGHTER IN OUR NATION. THAT SAME END-OF-YEAR FUNDING BILL ALSO INCLUDED FUNDING AND DIRECTIVES FOR THE U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT TO PURSUE MORE FORWARD-FACING, HUMANE ON-THE-RANGE MANAGEMENT OF WILD HORSES AND BURROS AND RENEWING AN AWA-LED EFFORT IN PRIOR YEARS TO SECURE $11 MILLION IN ANNUAL FUNDING FOR FERTILITY CONTROL. THIS IS JUST ONE STEP IN A LONG MARCH NEEDED TO KEEP WILD HORSES AND BURROS SAFE AND FREE IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS. THE BLM MUST MOVE FROM PERSECUTOR TO PROTECTOR, AS IT IS CHARGED TO BE DOING FOR THESE EQUIDS. KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE ON RACE HORSES NATIONAL RACE-DAY BAN ON PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS RESTORED AWA, ALONG WITH THE JOCKEY CLUB, WORKED WITH KEY LAWMAKERS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE TO AMEND THE HORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY ACT OF 2020, AMENDING A PROVISION IN THE ORIGINAL LAW THAT A FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN NOVEMBER AND THAT PUT THE NATIONAL BAN ON RACE-DAY DOPING OF THOROUGHBREDS IN JEOPARDY. PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS PUT THE ANIMALS AT RISK OF BREAKDOWNS AND OTHER INJURIES AND MAKE THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY SUSPECT. WE LAUNCHED OUR NEW SITE, WWW.HISAWATCHDOG.ORG, TO HELP FACILITATE COMMUNICATION AND KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON REGULATORS. KEEPING LAWLESSNESS AND TORTURE OUT OF THE SHOW RING RECORD FUNDING ACHIEVED TO ENFORCE FEDERAL ANTI-HORSE SORING LAW AWA HELPED SECURE RECORD-LEVEL FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THE HORSE PROTECTION ACT OF 1970. THIS YEAR, THE APPROVED CONGRESSIONAL SPENDING BILL FUNDING GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS IN 2023 INCLUDES A RECORD LEVEL $4.1 MILLION TO ENFORCE THE HPA - THAT'S $1 MILLION MORE THAN THE PRIOR YEAR'S RECORD FUNDING LEVEL OF $3 MILLION. THIS IS CONSEQUENTIAL BECAUSE A SEGMENT OF HORSE TRAINERS TORTURES HORSES TO GET THEM TO EXAGGERATE THEIR GAIT AND WIN RIBBONS AT HORSE SHOWS. WITH MORE INSPECTIONS, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CRACK DOWN ON SOME LEVEL OF LAWLESSNESS UNTIL WE CAN UPGRADE THE 52-YEAR-OLD LAW NEXT YEAR. UNTIL AWA STARTED PRESSING FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2018 WHEN THE ORGANIZATION OPENED SHOP, THE HPA NEVER SAW MORE THAN $705,000 IN FUNDING PER YEAR SINCE THE HPA WAS ENACTED IN 1970. FUNDING IS NEEDED. ACCORDING TO THE USDA ANIMAL PLANT AND HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICES, ONE-THIRD OF HORSES WERE FOUND NON-COMPLIANT WITH THE HPA AND DISQUALIFIED FROM THE YEAR-END TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE FINALE. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 11B | THE PROCESS FOR REVIEWING THE FORM 990 PRIOR TO FILING INCLUDES CIRCULATION TO ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE PRESIDENT. IT IS ALSO CAREFULLY REVIEWED BY ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL PERSONNEL WITH EXPERIENCE IN PREPARING THIS TYPE OF DOCUMENT. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C | THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IS BASED ON THE IRS RECOMMENDED POLICY. THIS POLICY, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IS CIRCULATED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS TO THE BOARD MEMBERS, THE PRESIDENT, AND THE GENERAL COUNSEL WITH A REQUEST FOR DISCLOSURE OF ANY CONFLICTS NOT KNOWN TO BOARD. ANY CONFLICTS THAT ARISE ARE ADDRESSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POLICY BY THE DISINTERESTED BOARD MEMBERS. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 15 | IN DETERMINING THE COMPENSATION OF THE OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES, THE ORGANIZATION TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE EXPERIENCE OF THE INCUMBENT AND COMPARABLE COMPENSATION DATA FOR SIMILAR POSITIONS WITHIN THE MARKET AREA AND INDUSTRY. |
| FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION C, LINE 19 | THE ORGANIZATION PUBLISHES ON ITS WEBSITE AN ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH DESCRIBES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE YEAR JUST ENDED AND INCLUDES A SUMMARY PARAGRAPH WITH SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION. THE WEBSITE INSTRUCTS ANYONE DESIRING A FORM 990 OR ANY GOVERNING DOCUMENTS TO CONTACT THE ORGANIZATION. |
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Cat. No. 51056K
Schedule O (Form 990) 2021
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