2025-03-09T15:58:36-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 743230332 ANIMAL-KIND INTERNATIONAL ANIM 5758340908 PO Box 300 Jemez Springs NM 87025 Karen Menczer Executive Director 5758340908 2025-03-09 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Karen Menczer POB 300 Jemez Springs NM 87025 267509 0 X https://www.animal-kind.org/ X 2007 NM Animal-Kind International supports animal welfare organizations in poor countries, primarily in Africa, secondarily in Latin America/Caribbean. We raise money for them and raise visibility of their work. We track their use of AKI funds and provide this information to our supporters. We support our Partner Organizations through ongoing disbursements ensuring that they have enough funding to carry on their programs. To broaden our support, we sponsor an annual Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program, which funds grant projects based on the submission of a successful proposal. We also provide technical and administrative assistance to our partners and grantees, and to other target organizations to help strengthen African animal welfare organizations. 7 7 0 10 0 0 225395 266855 0 0 271 654 0 0 225666 267509 234315 166313 0 0 0 0 0 0 764 1337 1859 235652 168172 -9986 99337 315736 415073 0 0 315736 415073 Animal-Kind International supports animal welfare organizations in poor countries, mainly in Africa, secondarily in Latin America/Caribbean. We raise money for them so that they can spay/neuter, shelter, feed, and provide vet care for unwanted animals and in cruelty cases; conduct in-school and community humane education; provide donkey and horse welfare programs; and so they can better implement their shelter, rescue, and education programs without the constant worry over finances. We support our Partner Organizations through ongoing disbursements so they always have a reliable source of funds. We reach and strengthen other animal welfare organizations through our annual Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program, providing funds for 1-time projects based on a successful proposal. Through our Friendly Audit Program, we provide technical and admin support to target organizations to help strengthen animal welfare organizations mainly in Africa. 0 0 124569 124569 0 Program Area One, Support for AKI Partner Organizations: In 2024, we provided support for shelter operations (50 to 90% of the running costs, including dog and cat food, staff salaries, vet and shelter supplies, and maintenance & construction of shelter facilities) to Sauvons nos Animaux-Congo, Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of Animals, & Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras; to Bam Animal Clinics-Uganda and The Six Freedoms-Ghana for almost 100% of their donkey and horse welfare activities including free vet clinics, humane saddle making training programs, horse feed and vet care for rescued horses, and horse stable inspection teams; an Emergency Vet Fund for cats and dogs overseen by Have a Heart-Namibia;Kingston Community Animal Welfare's feeding, spay/neuter, other vet care, and rescue of cats and dogs living on Kingston's streets (almost 100% of the cost); Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society's humane education program and remote animal care clinics; and Twala Trust's Doggy Tuesday feeding program and a 3 wheeler motorbike and wagon for transport of dogs and cats to and from communities. Lastly, Save Animals Armenia, a previous Partner Organization received their final disbursement to cover foster care for puppies born on Yerevan's streets. 41744 41744 0 Program Area 2: Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program (the 7th annual): We awarded grants to 10 animal welfare organizations in Africa: four in South Africa, two in Tanzania, two in Kenya, one in Rwanda, and one in Israel. For 1st year grantees, grant size was limited to $2000. For grantees who successfully completed a grant previously, the grant ceiling was $3000. During the 6-month grant timeline, grantees attracted further support and we topped up 3 grantees. The grants range in size from $1395 to $13000 (including the top-up) and supported projects such as: emergency repair to a cat sanctuary's electric system; emergency construction of a donkey shelter to house donkeys rescued from the illegal skin trade; rescue and vet care of donkeys rescued from Gaza; support for spay/neuter, other vet care and adoption programs; humane castration of donkeys; provision of dog houses; and farrier services for working horses. We awarded grants to: Tanzania Small Animal Veterinary Organization (included an extra $1000 top-up grant) and Lake Zone Animal Welfare Organization, both in Tanzania; Blind Love, SPCA-Grahamstown (plus a $10,000 top-up grant), amaTrac uluntu, and Little Paws Big Hearts, all 4 in South Africa; Kenya SPCA and Nairobi Feline Sanctuary, both in Kenya; Starting Over in Israel (included a $6000 top-up grant); and WAG in Rwanda. 0 0 0 166313 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 NM X X X Karen Menczer 5758340908 PO Box 300 Jemez Springs NM 87025 Karen Menczer Executive Director 40 0 X X 0 0 0 Karen Rae Vice President 3 0 X X 0 0 0 Betsie Van Dyke Secretary 3 0 X X 0 0 0 Ron Stryker Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Barbara Brown Abolafia Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Dipesh Pabari Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jean Merriman Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 266855 5767 266855 0 654 654 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 267509 654 0 0 0 0 0 0 166313 166313 0 0 46 46 1440 676 764 0 373 0 373 0 168172 166313 1095 764 0 285922 409306 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29814 5767 0 0 0 0 315736 415073 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 29814 5767 0 0 285922 409306 315736 415073 315736 415073 99337 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 122305 227370 292831 225395 266855 1134756 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122305 227370 292831 225395 266855 1134756 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1134756 251 122 307 271 654 1605 0 0 0 0 0 0 251 122 307 271 654 1605 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122556 227492 293138 225666 267509 1136361 0.99859 0.99864 0.00141 0.00136 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Grantmaking We provide grants (and disbursements) to our Partner animal welfare organizations and our Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program grant recipients. These funds are used to support their missions to rescue, rehabilitate, provide vet care, including spay-neuter, shelter, and re-home animals, and to educate community members, including school children about animal care and welfare. 152563 Central America and the Caribbean 9 9 Grantmaking We provide disbursements to our Partner animal welfare organizations. These funds are used to support their missions to rescue, rehabilitate, provide vet care, including spay-neuter, shelter, and re-home animals, and to educate community members, including school children about animal care and welfare. 12500 Europe (including Iceland and Greenland) 0 0 Grantmaking We provided a final disbursement to our Partner animal welfare organization, Save Animals-Armenia, which as of January 2025, is no longer a Partner because of our stronger focus on Africa and secondarily, Latin America. These funds are used to support SA-A's missions to rescue, rehabilitate, provide vet care, including spay-neuter, shelter, and re-home animals. 1250 9 9 166313 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization Sauvons nos Animaux in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo used AKI funds as follows: about US$15000 to finish building a wall along the upper edge of the animal shelter property; over $22000 to feed the cats and dogs at the shelter during 2024, which averaged about 88 dogs and 15 cats; for 5 shelter staff salaries, including the shelter vet; for medicine and vet supplies including for spay-neuter; and for humane ed material and events, including supplies for the Animal Friendly Kids Camp for 2 months and the daily Youth Club. Humane ed material included basins to build cat beds, copying coloring pages with animal themes, collars, leashes, and shampoo and grooming tools for the kids to use. 50200 wire transfer 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization Twala Trust in Zimbabwe used AKI funds as follows:About US$9500 for dog food for Doggy Tuesday, when the local community brings their dogs for vet care, including shots and spay-neuter and to get a healthy and filling meal. On average about 600 dogs attend Doggy Tuesday every week and our funds purchased all the food for these dogs plus some received take away doggy bags to supplement what they receive at home. With US$3035 from AKI, Twala Trust purchased a tuk tuk, a 3 wheel bike and wagon to more easily maneuver around rutted roads and transport cats and dogs and food to and from the sanctuary. Twala Trust used about US$1500 for vehicle maintenance of their pick up truck. And lastly, for shelter and vet supplies, which made up the remainder, including medicines for allergies, parvo and distemper vaccines, tarpaulin, buckets, uniforms. 19035 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization Uganda Society for the Protection & Care of Animals in Kampala used AKI funds as follows: Shelter staff salaries for 10 staff during 2024 which totaled about US$12,000; dog and cat food for the approximately 350 dogs and cats at their two shelters; transport to rescue cats and dogs from cruelty situations, injured on the street, or abandoned at homes and locked in yards without food or water; to repair the cattery roof; and the remainder for medicines and vet and shelter supplies, such as parvo vaccines, cleaning supplies, rabies and tetanus shots for USPCA staff, uniforms for staff, a scale for dogs and cats. 17000 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Grahamstown in South Africa was a 2024 AKI Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program recipient. This is the third year they received a grant from us based on a successful proposal. The initial grant (2024) was for $3000, which SPCA-G used to travel door to door in a poor township outside of Grahamstown to advise people about caring for their dogs and cats, provide vaccinations and parasite treatments, provide vet care, and to sign them up for spay-neuter. With the initial grant funds they spayed 47 dogs and 3 cats and treated dogs for pyometra, amputated a tail, removed tumors from 3 dogs, and treated many wounds and minor injuries. Based on their results, our supporters offered an additional grant of $10,000 to continue the program and to provide emergency care for dogs and cats, which during phase 1 of the grant, we noticed was a largely unfilled need. 13000 wire 0 Middle East and North Africa AKI 2024 grantee (Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program) Starting Over Sanctuary in Israel received a grant to construct a large tented shelter for donkeys rescued from Gaza and other conflict areas (US$2000). Donors topped up this grant with funds for vet care for donkeys and/or horses rescued from Gaza with another $7000. These additional funds were used to treat a mother and baby donkey rescued from Gaza. The baby was unable to stand or suckle, he had a lower jaw that was too short and had to be hospitalized, and his mother milked and he was hand-fed. A donkey foal rescued from Gaza also received vet care from this grant-surgery on her leg, 2 metal plates inserted, and a splint. 9000 wire 0 Central America and the Caribbean AKI Partner Organization Kingston Community Animal Welfare in Jamaica used AKI funds to feed cats and dogs living on Jamaica's streets (almost US$6500). KCAW feeds almost 1000 dogs and cats on a regular basis, mainly dogs and cats who receive no other food except what they can scrounge from trash. The remainder of our funds were used for medicines and vet supplies and vet care including spay and neuter (44 cats and 27 dogs in 2024). Medicines were mainly flea and tick preventative, mange treatment, de-worming meds, and wound treatments. 8000 check 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization the Six Freedoms-Ghana used AKI funds as follows: About US$1700 for food for 8 horses rescued from abusive situations and placed at a ranch where T6F places their rescued horses; stipends to the grooms who provide the care and feeding of T6F's rescued horses at about US$1100; about US$1200 to rescue horses (transport, caretaker fees, and vet care; maintenance and repair of stables and fencing at the rescue ranch; water for the horses ($500); transport of food and water to the ranch ($700); and the remainder for supplies and transport for the Care Teams, which T6F created to visit stables around Accra and Kokrobite and provide advice and assistance to the horse caretakers to improve the welfare of horses. 7000 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization Have a Heart-Namibia used AKI funds for our AKI-HaH Emergency Fund which provides emergency vet care to dogs and cats whose owners are very low or no income and who have gotten their pets spayed or neutered or who agree to spay or neuter once their pet is healthy enough. In 2024, 36 dogs and 28 cats received emergency vet care from the AKI-HaH fund. Types of care provided included: erlichia treatment, TVT treatment, treatment of injured ears, eyes, and legs, including amputations, fight wounds, teeth cleaning and removal, abscess draining, kidney stones, C-sections, distemper, burned paws. HaH also used AKI funds for their Lifetime Care Program, providing parasite treatment and vaccinations for all returning spay-neuter clients. In 2024, AKI funds helped 698 dogs as part of the Lifetime Care Program. 6000 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKi Partner Organization Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society used AKI funds as follows: salaries for three full-time staff for the full year (about US$3000), who support the LAWCS Humane Ed Program in Zorzor and their remote animal care clinics which are held throughout Lofa County, where there is no other available animal health care; office/clinic rent for the year ($1200); about $700 for medicines for the remote animal care clinics; gas and maintenance of their motorbike; and humane ed material for their in-school program. 6000 wire 0 Sub-Saharan Africa AKI Partner Organization Bam Animal Clinics-Uganda used AKI funds for their donkey welfare program, which involves community vet clinics in eastern Uganda, providing free vet care for donkeys, reaching a few thousand donkeys, and providing the only accessible and skilled donkey care available and training in making and using humane saddles for donkeys. AKI funds covered salaries of the vets and vet assistants (about US$2000); about $1000 for medicines and other vet supplies for donkeys; about $200 for more skilled vet care involving surgeries; arrangements for the clinics (phone, printing material, transport to remote areas to hold the clinics) at approximately $1000; and about $800 for saddle making supplies; and the other for humane ed material. 6000 wire 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Our Partner Organizations are required to complete an expenditure tracker which details how they spent AKI funds. This form is required to be submitted after the Partner expends a disbursement, which is at least twice a year. On a regular basis (which can be as often as a few times a week to once a month), our Partners are required to send pictures and information about their use of AKI funds. Our grantees (Africa-Based Animal Welfare Organization Grant Program) are selected using a rigorous process where we organize an external review committee to review proposals, these and the proposals are reviewed by the board, and we use technical area experts to supplement this, when needed. The winning grant recipients are required to submit a monthly grant report (using the template we provide, which includes text and financial info) until their grant project is completed (this could be 1 monthly report up to 6 monthly reports). We also visit our Partners and Grantees when possible and in 2024, we visited Sauvons nos Animaux, Uganda SPCA, and Bam Animal Clinics-Uganda. We also gather information from our supporters when they visit one of our Partners or Grantees. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Karen Menczer and Ron Stryker are married and on the AKI Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Board members receive a copy of the 990 (pdf, signature ready) prior to filing for their review and also receive a copy of the 990 by email after it's been submitted to retain for their records. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Annually, at the end of each year, at the Board member meeting in December, we review all policies, including the COI Policy, board members sign it annually, stating that they understand the policy and have no conflicts of interest. We review the bylaws and other governing documents at the December annual Board meeting, as well. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The 990 is available on the AKI website under the Annual Reports tab. All 990s are uploaded on that page after filing. Our 990s and the 1023 are also available on other sites: Guidestar and Charity Navigator. Our COI Policy, bylaws, and other governing documents are available upon request by any member of the public.