Most, like in Nassau County and Houston, had gotten nothing. A few had received grants worth a few thousand dollars from the ASPCA, which they had applied for. "I would challenge the fact that 84% of people know the difference when the fundraising tactics would lead you to believe that money given to the ASPCA trickles down into local organizations," said Patti Mercer, president and CEO of the Houston SPCA.ĬBS News spoke to more than two dozen local SPCA's across the country. What that survey did not ask was whether donors knew the difference between giving to the ASPCA and giving to other local SPCAs nationwide. According to its own 2017 survey, ASPCA said 84% of its donors also donated to a local animal charity. The ASPCA is not an umbrella organization for local organizations with SPCA in their names - a fact the ASPCA says donors know.
"The major problems that most SPCAs have is that the ASPCA does not fund these agencies," Rogers told CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod. About 40 miles away from the ASPCA's headquarters in Manhattan, Gary Rogers is the president of the Nassau County SPCA, a local charity that fosters animals, investigates abuse and rescues animals in danger. The ASPCA was established in 1866 by diplomat and animal welfare activist Henry Bergh in New York, where the organization still has its headquarters and offers the majority of its hands-on animal services, including sheltering, assisting with abuse investigations and spay/neuter surgeries. "We need our donors and the people in our community to know where their money is going."
"It is frustrating on this side of the table to realize that a bulk of our time and our staff time is spent trying to explain the difference between national and local," Sullivan said.
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