What is even more telling about their goals are their 2008 expenditures: They spent almost $20 million on campaigns, legislation and litigation; more than $ 24 million on fundraising; over $30.9 million in salaries, wages and other employee compensation; and less than $500,000 - that's just one-half of 1 percent of its total budget - in grants to organizations providing hands-on care to dogs and cats, which is where most donors probably believe their donations are going.
HSUS raises nearly $100 million annually from Americans who largely believe their donations filter down to local pet shelters and improve the lives of dogs and cats. But in 2008, less than one-half of one percent of HSUS’s budget consisted of grants to actual hands-on “humane societies”
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Took their management lessons from United Way.