Friendship Animal Protective League

“A copy of the form 990 and required schedules are provided to each member of the executive committee, finance committee and executive director for review. Upon completion of their review, the form 990 and required schedules are presented to the entire board and after pending approval of all board members, are subsequently filed. The 990 approval process may be done either at regularly scheduled meetings or via email.”

“The conflict of interest policy requires all board members to disclose any potential conflicts immediately. The executive director and governance committee are also actively involved in all proposed transactions or arrangements and diligently review them for such conflicts.”

“The executive director's salary is reviewed by the board executive committee. When considering compensation adjustments, an analysis is performed comparing salaries of several northeast ohio executive directors. Payscale.com is also reviewed for reasonableness.”

“Documents are made available to the public upon request, by inspection at the organization. In addition, the annual financial statements are available on guidestar.org once they have been reviewed.”

“Volunteers and fosters provided approximately 113,687 hours of service to our organization during the year. The number of individuals and hours are tracked using a sign-in sheet and excel spreadsheet. The volunteers help with cleaning, dog walking, cat socialization, adoptions, special events, fundraisers and fostering.”

“All other accomplishments animal care and rescue - performed an estimated 573 cruelty investigations and assisted 6,544 animals, of which 6,302 were unique to the organization (ie not returned). All cats and dogs adopted out of our facility have been spayed and neutered to reduce animal overpopulation. Since the construction of our spay & neuter clinic in april of 2019, friendship apl has spayed/neutered over 20,500 dogs, cats and rabbits at our shelter with the help of one veterinarian. Through our collaborative efforts with rescues, our partnerships with local nonprofits and our creative use of marketing, we found homes for, transferred to other organizations or returned to their owners an amazing 92.3% of the dogs and 88.6% of the cats rescued by our team.”