annual report
FOR THE YEAR 2017
Heaven on Earth by the numbers
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Los Angeles close to becoming a no-kill city!
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Building Our Capacity to Save Lives BETH Perry’s Place Resident LATE BREAKING NEWS! The City of Los Angeles has awarded Heaven on Earth a three-year contract to operate a spay & neuter clinic. Located at the city shelter in Chatsworth, this endeavor will allow us to expand our services and reach to the West San Fernando Valley. Stay tuned for additional updates!
Dear Family & Friends On of Heaven on Earth: the 2018 began where 2017 left off, and we continue to save more lives than ever. We have commit- ted to rescuing 800 cats from the Cover city shelters this year, and we expect that more than 1,100 cats and kittens will enjoy safe haven MISTER at some time during the year at to expand our donor base, and on Perry’s Place. By converting the our monthly sponsorship program, Sweet, very adoptable Mister onsite apartment to additional in order to ensure a steady flow of clinical space last year, we were operating funds. currently resides in Clopsy’s able to increase Perry’s Place’s Corner, one of the many rooms capacity for care. And now that we In the meantime, we are enor- at Perry’s Place dedicated to have maxed out our facility, we will mously grateful to the founda- providing sanctuary to cats like begin a modest foster program in tions, corporations, and individual him. 9-year-old Mister came to 2018 to expand our capability to donors who have helped us keep us as a stray in February of 2017, save underage kittens during the up with our service growth. We peak of kitten season. have earned modest budget though -- because he’d already surpluses for the past 11 years been fixed and had teeth pulled -- We also project adopting out three through sound management, and it does appear he was someone’s times as many cats as just 4 years are proud that 89% of our budget pet at some point in the past. ago, and our SpayShip transport directly supports our programs. Mister is a very affable fellow: program is on pace to facilitate Bottom line, we remain commit- he is playful and gets along well more than 1,000 spays and neuters ted to continuing to merit your with other cats, although he is a again in 2018. trust and confidence that donated dollars will be used to greatest bit of a Beta; he doesn’t like to To sustain this dramatic growth, effect and that expenses will be be picked on. With an insatiable we are planning to launch a fund- managed prudently. love for treats and people and raising campaign before the end an idiosyncratically crooked tail, of 2018, which will offer donors an Perry’s Place provides a little bit of Mister is a delight. He would opportunity to make multi-year Heaven on Earth for its feline resi- make a wonderful pet for anyone pledges to name the remaining dents, those precious little beings seeking a mature cat with a rooms in Perry’s Place or to es- who depend on us and inspire the tablish named funds. We will also work we do. They are all alive and pleasant temperament. rely increasingly on social media thriving because you care. Thank you to our volunteers, staff and donors for the gifts of your time, If you are interested in adopting talent and treasure to help ensure Mister – or any other cat from Perry’s the future of Perry MacFarlane’s Place – please contact our adoptions legacy. team: [email protected] or 818-474-2700 x2. Ritchie Geisel Suzanne Lofland Executive Director Board Chair Title sponsor Seth MacFarlane was joined by 32 additional sponsors in ensuring the evening’s PRESENTING & financial success, with funds raised providing 20% of Heaven on Earth’s annual operating TOP CAT SPONSORS SEVENTH budget. PRESENTING TOP CAT
Ritchie & Pamela Geisel NVE Experience Agency ANNUAL GALA SBV Talent William Morris Endeavor COOL CAT SPONSORS
SELLS OUT! John & Hilda Arnold Foundation Mike & Sara Henry Best Friends Animal Society Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer The program was emceed by Heaven on Earth Robert & Erika Brunson Austen Mandelbaum executive director Ritchie Geisel and began Jason & Kimberly Clark Morris & Klein Fox Television Group, Fox Audience Bill Maher ALLEY CAT SPONSORS with a special musical performance by Rachael Strategy, & 20th Century Fox Michelson Found Animals MacFarlane and her talented 7-year old daughter Susan & Dan Gottlieb Foundation Bella. The Rich Ruttenberg trio provided additional Gursey | Schneider Dana & Matt Walden musical entertainment throughout the evening, Cathy Berry and our auctioneer, Trey Jarvis, brought his own unique energy in motivating our guests to dig deep Judy Dunn MaddocksBrown Foundation KITTEN SPONSORS in support of Heaven on Earth’s lifesaving mission. Media Rights Capital
Beneficial State Bank Offenhauser | Mekeel Architects Joy Fehily Petco Foundation David Goodman & Wendy Felson Serena Sandino Karma Rescue Smart Entertainment Justin Lesky, The DHC, Inc. Jon & Laura Thompson Rachael MacFarlane & Brian & Janella Werdesheim Spencer Laudiero Monika Zimaniova
Raises $165,000 Heaven for Perry’s Place Cats How to be creative? on Earth n September 23, 2017, we hosted our annual gala at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. Our 300 guests O(a new record!) enjoyed a reception by the featuring “Kitty Kosmos” donated by Tito’s Vodka, fine dining, a silent auction, and wonderful musical entertainment. (L to R) Jackson Galaxy, Marc Peralta, Rachael MacFarlane, Ritchie Geisel All of the funds raised will provide Numbers care for the cats and kittens at Perry’s Place, our North Hollywood sanctuary. Heaven on Earth was proud to honor “agents of compassion” NVE Experience Agency and SBV Talent; we awarded the second Perry’s Passion Award to Marc Peralta of Best Friends, who led the NKLA Coalition from 2012-2017.
Nothing would have made the late Perry MacFarlane happier than to know that Los Angeles is on the verge of becoming the nation’s largest no-kill city; nothing could be more appropriate than honoring her legacy by recognizing Marc’s leadership.
Actress Penny Johnson Jerald & husband Gralin Jerald PRESENTING & Heaven on Earth Expenses for 2017 TOP CAT SPONSORS Bar graphs Fundraising Expenses don’t tell the 3% ($24k) whole story... Administrative Expenses 8% ($63k) because each cat we Total budget: COOL CAT SPONSORS rescue has his or her own Program Expenses $816k 89% ($728k) personal tale
ALLEY CAT SPONSORS Program Expense Detail
Sanctuary Staff 35% ($255k) SpayShip Program 6% ($45k) KITTEN SPONSORS Animal Care 10% ($70k) Medical 11% ($77k) Once Perry’s Place Operations Porsche’s 17% ($125k) kittens were eating Adoption Program 21% ($156k) on their own, her job was done. The kittens were moved to our Programs budget: isolation room, where they grew $728k until they reached two pounds and were big enough to be fixed. Heaven 751
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by the 599 Intakes 547 Bugatti, Numbers Adoptions Ferrari, Pagani, and Maserati 436 (plus 30 other kittens) were fixed by our mobile spay/neuter vet in 312 the Perry’s Place parking lot on a Monday morning in 250 252 June 2017. They made their public debut that 192 201 weekend; all were adopted soon 132 141 140 after! 112 52 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Last spring, after being alerted that they were on Bar graphs the red list at the East Valley Shelter, we pulled the don’t tell the whole story... (Maserati, Ferrari, because each cat we “Sports Car rescue has his or her own They were Bugatti, personal tale transferred & Pagani) from their carriers into a Litter” double cage in our Maternity Room at Perry’s Place, where our clinical staff cared for the nursing babies.
ROMAN & PORSCHE Once Porsche’s kittens were eating on their own, her job was done. The kittens were moved to our isolation room, where they grew until they reached two pounds and were big enough to be Meanwhile, a somewhat shy Porsche was spayed and sent to fixed. live at the Tujunga PetSmart temporarily. Soon, Porsche met a new friend in the cubby next to her: Roman... The pair was ultimately adopted together!
Bugatti, Ferrari, Pagani, and Maserati (plus 30 MASERATI other (now Purkins) kittens) were fixed by our mobile BUGATTI spay/neuter vet in (now Theoden) the Perry’s Place parking lot on a Monday morning in June 2017. They made their public debut that weekend; all were FERRARI & adopted soon PAGANI after!
In 2011, Best Friends Animal Society teamed up with Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS) and the leading Los Angeles animal organizations to plan a bold campaign with a big goal: to end the killing of dogs and cats in LAAS shelters. That meant achieving a combined 90% save rate for both dogs and cats in L.A. city shelters for the year. The year before the launch of NKLA, the save rate for LAAS was 58% for dogs and cats combined. For dogs in L.A. city shelters in 2011, the save rate was a mediocre 71%. For cats? A dismal
Heaven on Earth joined the other leaders in the cat Heaven on rescue community in 36% Earth has done 2015 by accepting Best Friends’ challenge to its part by increasing the By the end of 2017, the number S A V E of kittens euthanized in the LAAS system had dropped by an astounding 74%, number of cats T H E M with the number of kitten deaths decreasing to 2,003, though we’ve rescued A L L still 2,003 too many. especially underage from the city kittens. These most adorable 92% 79% DOGS CATS & shelters from of shelter pets KITTENS comprise the largest 250 in 2014 to “demographic” of animals dying in shelters. Of the 23,751 2017 751 this past dogs and cats who died SAVE RATE in L.A. shelters in 2011, JUST year, a 300% more than increase in just DOGS & CATS 4%
7,400 SHORT OF THE NO- 3 years. were kittens. 86% KILL THRESHHOLD COMBINED
This has been accomplished as a result of the dedication and fierce resolve of our staff and adoption volunteers With the goal so close at hand, the under the leadership of Pamela Geisel, Adoption and Admission Director since 2010. work of saving lives and sustaining the achievements of the last five years Our 2018 goal is 800. Donor List 2017 Thank you for your generous gifts! Your support is invaluable to us.
$ M.L. Chasteen Ginger Tipton Robert & Linda Bastien 25,000 or more David Freeman Venable Foundation Steve Besser Robert Gentino Warner Bros. Entertainment Kellie Bodine Best Friends Animal Society James Jackoway Monika Zimaniova Andre Bormanis The Darcie Denkert Trust John Jacobs Michele Dalcin Botts Ritchie & Pamela Geisel MaddocksBrown Foundation Jay Bradshaw Greenberg Animal Welfare $ $ Media Rights Capital 500 - 999 Paul & Barbara Foundation Jennifer Parisgnault & Caplan-Bennett Seth MacFarlane Marie Ambrosino & Robert Wynne Cherry Cheva The Hyla Marrow Trust Doug Peter The Petco Foundation Emily Banks Collins The Michelson Found Animals Jill Blackwell Plas-Tal Manufacturing Carol Corrin Foundation The Boeing Company Gail Dillon Brian & Janelle Werdesheim Laura Buntrock & Jack Van Bezooyen Dennis Ertsman $ $ 10,000 - 24,999 $1,000 - $2,499 Steve Callaghan Robert Fajardo & Christy Daily Martha Ann Ciattei Maria Fiorentino Capital Group The Allergan Foundation Tracey Clarke Patrick Galvin William Morris Endeavor Richard Appel Alexa Cox & Alex Shipp, Jr. Michaelle Hazlett Thornton S. Glide, Jr. & Beneficial State Bank Justin & Monica Fischer Tracy Herriott Katrina D. Glide Foundation Mark Bennett Diana Fitzgerald & Nedda Hill John & Katherine Gregory Amy & Ben Castellana Michael Fink Katherine Huey June Irene Chiltern Healey Adrian Hutchins Foundation Carolyn & Thomas Caswell Colleen Friend Paul & Erica Jacques SBV Talent Erendira Cronkhite Linda Garrison (Sutton Barth Vennari) The DHC, Inc. Anna Graves Brian Jett & Katie Larkin The Diane Warren Foundation Layne David Dicker & Theresa Gutierrez Jeffrey Johnson Sally Spencer Elizabeth Houchens Susan Johnson-Lipman Beverly & Thomas Ettinger $ $ Gail Hyams Eden Kennan 5,000 - 9,999 Aislin Fairchild Dimitry & Katie Ioffe Amanda Lamberti Joy Fehily Kevin King Laurie Liles 20th Century Fox Edward Fitz Corrine & Michael John Lofland Amaturo Family Foundation John Geisel & Betsy McNamara Kohlmeyer-Hyman Ron MacFarlane John & Hilda Arnold Melissa & Fred Godlash Kroger Foundation Barbara Martinelli David Goodman & Suzanne Lofland & Erika & Robert Brunson Sharon Mays Wendy Felson Leandra Lawrence Jason & Kimberly Clark Kimzey McGrath & Christine & Daniel Grey Manufacturers Bank Patrick Danford Judy Dunn Thomas & Gayle Jemison Cynthia & Bob McLean Lynn Miller Susan Gottleib Greg Jordan Roger Memos & Laurie Haas Michael Narren Gursey | Schneider LLP Karma Rescue Robin Olin Robert & Barbara Patrick Mike & Sara Henry Lucy Pet Foundation Marc Peralta James Peterson Carrie Ann Inaba Gregg McClurg PetSmart Charities Nico Santucci Rachael MacFarlane & Ryan Mukai Wilda & James Rokos Spencer Laudiero Stanley Schneider North Hollywood Church Rob Saltman The Bill Maher Trust Carla Semola of Religious Science Gregory Shukhman Night Vision Entertainment Deborah & Steven Soukup October Lane Foundation Zack Stentz & Leah Glynn Robert Thum Dana & Matthew Walden Offenhauser / Mekeel Alec Sulkin Sherrie Titus Architects Kara Vallow The Veggie Grill $ $ Paul Saltman 2,500 - 4,999 Matt Weitzman Serena Sandino $ $ Stephen Wong & Allison Alford Marsha Todd Austen & Cheri Shankar 250 - 499 Kurt Zahm Karl Austen Walt & Judy Stonerock Cathy Berry Laura & Jon Thompson Doug Amaturo Sue Boling Evelyn Baron
“If your name has been listed incorrectly or omitted, we extend our apologies and hope you will contact us at [email protected] so we may correct our records Board of Directors
Suzanne Lofland |Chair Colleen Friend | Vice Chair 7342 Fulton Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91605 Jennifer Parsignault | Secretary John Gregory | Treasurer Jennifer Flaks Melissa Godlash Eunice Hwangbo Paul Jacques Lisa Medwid Paul Saltman Robin Wohlford Susie Yoo Ritchie Geisel (ex-officio) Honorary Board
Rachael MacFarlane | Chair Erendira Cronkhite | Founder ADOPT Marie Ambrosino [email protected] Carrie Ann Inaba Jon Mack Janelle Werdesheim VOLUNTEER @HeavenOnEarthSocietyforAnimals [email protected] Staff Leadership
Ritchie Geisel | Executive Director SUPPORT OUR Jill Bennett | Adoption & Volunteer Director LIFESAVING WORK Elsa Garcia, DVM | Medical Director [email protected] Leandra Lawrence | Sanctuary Director Jennifer Parsignault | SpayShip Director SPAY OR Jose Sandoval | West Valley Clinic Director @perrys_place_la Allen Balcarcel | SpayShip Coordinator NEUTER CATS Pamela Geisel | Admission Coordinator [email protected] Geenah-Marie Leslie | Volunteer Coordinator Erin Lynch | Adoption Counselor GENERAL Lauren Neal | Marketing Coordinator Leslie Roman | Asst. Sanctuary Manager INFORMATION [email protected] Payton Swanson | Mobile Adoptions Coord. @perrys_place_la Rose Tucci | Development Assistant Connect with us! BETH Perry’s Place Resident “If your name has been listed incorrectly or omitted, we extend our apologies and hope you will contact us at [email protected] so we may correct our records