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Name:	Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.
Address:	7155 Old Katy Rd., Suite N290
	Houston, TX 77024
Phone:	713-862-3863 800-762-7762
Web Address:	snapus.org
Also known as: SNAP Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP)

Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

SNAP currently has 4 ongoing projects in Houston and San Antonio, Texas: Houston Mobile Clinic Project (with 2 clinics), Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic, San Antonio Mobile Clinic Project, and San Antonio Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic. These projects served a combined total of 48,521 cats and dogs in FY2011 with sterilization and wellness services. Since SNAP’s inception in 1993 through 2011, SNAP sterilized and provided wellness services for 602,603 animals throughout the nation and even in Mexico. SNAP offers services free to indigent families on need-based public assistance programs—the homeless, the disabled, the elderly, the poor—as well as at reduced cost to the general public, which most often means the working poor. SNAP does this because the problem of animal overpopulation has been documented to be the worst in low-income neighborhoods, where people lack the means and often the awareness of the problem necessary to help with the solution. SNAP's approach to the animal overpopulation problem is through sterilization and education. No birth is the first step to no kill. This strategy includes affordability, accessibility, and public education about the need for and availability of programs to spay-neuter animals for the health of the animals and for the elimination of dog and cat overpopulation and the consequent euthanasia of healthy, socialized animals. SNAP also helps the economically disadvantaged to become part of the solution to the animal overpopulation crisis.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.'s program expenses were:

Houston Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic	2,143,692
San Antonio Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic	945,019
Houston Mobile Clinic	499,961
San Antonio Mobile Clinic	287,096
Education	41,637
Total Program Expenses:	$3,917,405

Chief Executive : James R. Weedon, DVM, MPH, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$95,052

Highest Paid Executive: Mary Kate Lawler, DVM,San Antonio Chief of Staff
Compensation*: $135,514

Chair of the Board: David L. Smith
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Director, Energy Strategy and HP

Board Size: 10

Paid Staff Size: 61

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, print advertisements, grant proposals, internet, cause-related marketing

Fund raising costs were 27% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $1,212,703, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, Inc.'s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.

Source of Funds
Clinic Fees	3,297,809
Contributions	1,168,653
Product Sales	1,060,590
Special Events	46,759
Other	2,476
Loss on Disposal of Assets	-2,709
Cost of product sold	-560,109
Total Income	$5,013,469

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 86%  Fund Raising: 7%  Administrative: 7%

Total income				$5,013,469
	Program expenses			$3,917,405
	Fund raising expenses			328,770
	Administrative expenses			305,644
Total expenses				$4,551,819
Income in Excess of Expenses				461,650
Beginning net assets				685,256
Ending net assets				1,146,906
Total liabilities				532,785
Total assets				$1,679,691