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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Georgia Aquarium non-profit animal entertainment "business" - Atlanta, Georgia EIN 58-2574918

Georgia Aquarium, non-profit, for-profit, animal entertainment business, atlanta, georgia, seaworld, shows, tricks, tanks EIN: 58-2574918

I was surfing the web when the below video popped up for the Super Bowl. The first screen on the video states they are a 501 3c non-profit organization that doesn't have to pay taxes. If you take a closer look, they are actually a SeaWorld like for-profit business with $471,000,000 in assets which brings in $78,000,000 per year.

Notice in the video that it looks just like SeaWorld. The marine animals are all doing forced tricks with unnatural objects. This is no different than SeaWorld. These animals are bought, taken in as babies and habituated to be a trained animal to sell tickets to a park. They are not released back to the wild but caged for life.

Here is their Guidestar page so you can see the huge income they make.

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/58-2574918

They state this is conservation, education when it's really just entertainment for humans.

I wrote an article about the difference between non-profit aquariums and for-profit marine entertainment parks like SeaWorld. There is no difference except in the way they formed their corporations. SeaWorld should have started as a non-profit. Some of these non-profits bring in much more money than for profit SeaWorld.

http://animaladvocatesmarycummins.blogspot.com/2014/11/when-is-non-profit-not-non-profit.html

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

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Mary Cummins

Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate Services has been in real estate since 1983, over 35 years. She is licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Mary Cummins was an agent and broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate selling residential income, commercial buildings, raw land and homes for Merrill Lynch Realty in Beverly Hills and Westside Properties in Los Angeles before concentrating on appraisals. Mary Cummins currently provides real estate appraisals, expert witness testimony, historical research, legal real estate research for mortgage brokers, banks, lawyers, factors, insurance companies, financial consultants and private individuals. Mary Cummins was born and raised in Southern California. Cummins attended Beverly Hills Good Shepherd Catholic School and Beverly Hills High School. Besides being on the Dean's list, Mary Cummins was a top ten national swimmer and competed on the men's water polo team. Mary Cummins began college at the age of 15 attending the University of Southern California on scholarship, majoring in Psychology/Sociology. http://www.animaladvocates.us http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Animal Advocates legal disclaimer - Licensed Wildlife Rehabiliators in Los Angeles, California

We are licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) customer number 22273, permit 93-C-0973. We have a 12 year perfect history of inspections since we first got out permit in 2003. We have never had a violation ever. We follow all guidelines of the Animal Welfare Act.

We are licensed by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (used to be called Fish & Game). We have a perfect record and history. We are permitted to rehabilitate all small mammals including coyotes, bobcats, foxes, raccoons, opossums, all squirrels, skunks, small rodents and bats. We also can rehabilitate all non-protected birds. We have legal unreleasable educational animals. We were first approved for our license in 2003. Mary Cummins worked as a satellite for other rehabbers since 2001. We have never had a violation ever. We follow all guidelines of Fish & Wildlife.

We are a legal non-profit organization recognized by the IRS since 2002. We have never had a problem with our status or any violations ever. We follow all rules and regulations. We've never been audited. Here is our legal organization on Guidestar http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/48-1287089/animal-advocates.aspx

We are a legal California non-profit corporation originally filed in 2002. We have never had any violations ever. We have never been audited. We follow all rules and regulations. http://www.animaladvocates.us/animal_advocates_legal_corporation.jpg

It is against the law for us to show wildlife being rehabilitated for release back to the wild to the public. We can only show our educational unreleasable animals to the public. We cannot give tours or let people view our facilities. This is why we show photos and videos. NO ONE except USDA and Fish & Wildlife inspectors have ever been to our facilities since 2006 when we move to a new facility. We don't give out our physical addresses.

President of Animal Advocates Mary Cummins has a perfect history and has passed many Department of Justice background checks to have her many professional licenses (real estate appraiser, real estate broker, notary...), work with abused children, have a gun permit and go to the police academy, humane academy to become a Humane Officer. Mary Cummins has passed the strictest of all background checks to work with many high level government agencies. Cummins does not even have a speeding or parking ticket on her record.

A mentally ill, obsessed lady has been stalking us for the last few years. She has been stating completely false things about our founders and organization. If anyone ever says we have ever had a problem with our permits or the law, they are lying. We have a perfect record. We are working with authorities to have this person incarcerated.

Mary Cummins
Animal Advocates
http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us
http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA
http://www.youtube.com/MaryCummins
Licensed by USDA, California Dept of Fish & Wildlife
USDA customer # 22273, permit # 93-C-0973
Legal non-profit organization IRS # 48-1287089
Legal non-profit California corporation # C2472297
Rio Hondo Police Academy
Humane Academy
IWRC, CCWR, NWRA

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Animal Advocates year end report for 2014 - Mary Cummins, Los Angeles, California

Animal Advocates, Mary Cummins, Los Angeles, California

Here are a few things we've accomplished in 2014 thanks to you and all your help.

Wild animals we rescued for release

▪ 211 Tree Squirrels

▪ 134 Opossums

▪ 42 Raccoons

▪ 39 California Ground Squirrels

▪ 14 Gophers

▪ 36 Striped Skunks

▪ 92 Pigeons

▪ 28 Wild bunnies

▪ 5 Coyotes

▪ 3 Bobcats

▪ 7 Foxes

▪ 39 Rats

▪ 46 Mice

▪ 21 Pip bats

▪ 22 Hoary bats

▪ 25 California myotis bats

▪ 98 Mexican free-tail bats

862 wild animals, 94% release rate (2% euthanized, 4% died)

Domestic animals we rescued

11 House Bunnies
23 Cats
42 Red eared slider turtles
2 Iguanas
34 Koi fish
25 Domestic rats
11 Domestic mice
36 Hamsters

184 rescued, all rehomed

Exotic pets transported out of state

We have permission to bail exotic pocket pets for transport out of the state. We bailed and arranged for transport of 21 exotic pets.

1,067 total animals rescued. We're finally back over 1,000 again.

Other activities

Paid to spayneuter 42 animals owned by others
Added two new large outdoor enclosures
Gave wildlife presentations at five public events
Uploaded 16 new animal rescue videos to YouTube
Now have over 4,800 YouTube subscribers
Now have over 7,800,000 video views on YouTube
Now have over 58,000 Facebook fans
Now have over 1,300 Twitter followers
5 humane coyote exclusions
14 year perfect inspection reports from USDA
Consulted with two cities about educating the public about coyotes
Taught a class for small mammal rehabilitators
Responded to over 1,000 emails asking for animal advice/help from all over the world
Responded to over 1,100 phone calls asking for animal advice/help
Over 500,000 hits on our website Animal Advocates http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us
Over 2,000,000 hits on our website Squirrel Rescue http://www.mary.cc/squirrels
We were approved for our new native species exhibiting permit by Fish & Wildlife
Were named top non-profit by LA Business Journal
We are an approved rescue by Adopt-a-pet.com
We became a 100% "green" organization

Every year we have to say a few sad farewells. Goodbye to Mindy the blind squirrel. She was much loved here at Animal Advocates. She never recovered from seizures caused by loud noises on July 4th. Goodbye to David Middlesworth of V-Dog a wonderful person who donated food to us. Goodbye to Molly Anderson of vegan Madeleine's Bistro. She was a loving and wonderful caring person. With every year there are of course many thanks.

Thanks to Dr. Jennifer Conrad for the Paw Project documentary.

Thanks to Frank for all the formula.

Thanks to Paul Koretz for banning bull hooks in Los Angeles

Thanks to Eldad Hagar for helping animals.

Thanks to PETA for stopping the cruel "Possum Drop."

Thanks for the hay and amazon.comdonations.

Thanks to everyone in the food recycling program.

Thanks to Brenda Barnette for allowing us to pickup wildlife from the shelters.

Thanks to new Mayor Eric Garcetti for all his help with animals.

Thanks to Governor Brown for allowing us to rehab mountain lions.

Thanks to Fish & Game Commission for outlawing animal hunt contests.

Thanks to people who helped transport animals.

Thanks to all the volunteers. Thanks everyone for all the love and support. And a special thanks to anyone I accidentally left off the list and our anonymous donors.

2015 Marks our 13th year as a non-profit organization. We have a lot of new things planned!

▪ We're looking for a new property with more land that backs up to city or state park land.

▪ We'll be rewriting our wildlife rehabilitation manuals and finishing a book.

▪ We'll be redoing the websites.

▪ We'll be hopefully getting some incubators.

▪ We'll be starting a membership with a newsletter, special offers and live wildlife programs.

▪ We'll be applying for grants to expand our program.

▪ We expect to get our wildlife rescue numbers back up. We should be over 1,300. The economy has really taken a toll on our finances.

If you're doing some year end tax planning, keep in mind that Animal Advocates is a 501 3c non-profit corporation recognized by the IRS and Attorney General. We are also recognized by the state of California as a legal non-profit corporation. All donations are tax deductible. Our PayPal button is on our website http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us

or you can always send a check to

Animal Advocates

645 W. 9th St. #110-140

Los Angeles, CA 90015-1640

That's a P.O. box so don't deliver animals there. Here are more ways you can help Animal Advocates.

We also have a GoFundMe campaign but would prefer direct donations as GoFundMe takes 10%

http://www.gofundme.com/Animal-Advocates-GoFundMe

We have an Amazon Smile account

https://smile.amazon.com/ch/48-1287089

We have an eBay account you can friend, fan or donate to.

http://www.ebay.com/usr/animal.advocates

We have an iGive account

http://www.igive.com/welcome/lp15/wr33d.cfm?c=69066&p=19992&jltest=1

Thanks from everyone at Animal Advocates for caring about animals. We wish you a happy and wonderful New Year!

Mary Cummins, MaryEllen Schoeman and everyone else at Animal Advocates

http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Please, help Animal Advocats on #GivingTuesday

We're raising money to get ready for our huge up coming baby season. As we are the only licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles City which covers over 500 square miles and 4.3 million people we get inundated with babies besides ill and injured wildlife. Any day now baby tree squirrels will start pouring in by the shoe box full. After that we get baby opossums, ground squirrels, flying squirrels, raccoons, skunks, foxes, bobcats and coyotes. Next summer we'll get baby bats and yet another round of tree squirrels, opossums and late raccoon, skunk, fox babies.

Please, help us raise funds for incubators, food and veterinary costs. With the help of a grant we expanded our outdoor enclosures so we can take in more animals. While we're very grateful to be able to expand this has caused our regular budget for food, veterinary and supplies to sky rocket.

You can donate via PayPal to donate@animaladvocates.us or click this link.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=58WN7JLLXNRMU

You can also send us a check to Animal Advocates, 645 W 9th St #110-140, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1640. If you can't donate, you can always share this link. Thanks so much!

Mary Cummins

President

Animal Advocates

http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us

http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA

Licensed by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and USDA

Legal 501 3c non-profit organization recognized by the IRS since 2002 EIN # 48-1287089

http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/48-1287089/animal-advocates.aspx

Legal California non-profit corporation since 2002

http://www.animaladvocates.us/animal_advocates_legal_corporation.jpg

#givingtuesday

Mary Cummins

Sunday, November 16, 2014

When is a non-profit not a non-profit? SeaWorld, Shedd Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates

Monterey Bay Aquarium, SeaWorld Adventure Park, Shedd Aquarium, when a non-profit is actually a for-profit business

SeaWorld is a for-profit company with 11 theme park/aquariums. They state their goal is to make a profit while promoting marine conservation. Yes, they force their animals to do tricks, keep them in small tanks, don't give them the best care. This article only deals with finances and taxes. In 2013 they made $1.46 billion from their parks, merchandise, restaurants...Their EBITDA was $439 million. Their CEO makes $675K/ye. You can swim with animals, touch the animals. While they were, are profitable, they don't pay Federal taxes, Florida corporation taxes because of write offs from debt payments, deductions. They state they pay tens of millions in other forms of state, federal, property...taxes.

http://www.seaworldinvestors.com/files/doc_financials/Annual%20Reports/2013%20SEAS%20Annual%20Report%20Final.pdf

The Shedd aquarium is legally a non-profit but it is definitely a for profit zoo. People pay to visit the aquarium and can pay extra to play with a beluga whale or penguin, just like SeaWorld. They state they need donations to care for this tiny sea otter pup. They make $73,000,000 a year from their zoo/aquarium with $350,000,000 in assets, $177,000,000 in cash. They don't need money for this pup. He should have been rehabbed here for release back to the wild. He's being used to make money. They have $22,000,000 in salaries, CEO makes $3,500,000 per year! They turn a big profit every year over $20,000,000. Zoo masquerading as a non-profit sanctuary. Here is their 990 for 2012. They only pay some payroll taxes. They receive $5 million from taxes paid by others.

http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2012/362/167/2012-362167918-09783b4b-9.pdf

CEOs of Monterey Bay Aquarium, SeaWorld, Shedd Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium takes in $66 million a year. They also have over $300 million in assets. Julie Packard Director makes about $300K/yr. 12 other people have over $150K and even $200K/yr. They spend $1.2 million on animals. The aquarium turns a nice profit. They have $80 million in cash. $150M in stocks and bonds. If you look at the end of their 990, you can see their sea otter activity. They even work with SeaWorld. They give them pups. Only pay payroll taxes.

http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2012/942/487/2012-942487469-09e0c7c0-9.pdf

Monterey Bat Aquium, SeaWorld San Diego, Shedd Aquarium maps, non-profit verses for-profit business

Right now people are trying to get the NFL's non-profit status yanked. I didn't even know they were a non-profit. They are a 501 6 c corporation, an "industry association." They are legally a non-profit just like a church. Seems there are many other organizations which are also non-profit such as social club, fraternity, business league, labor organization, veterans, employee benefits... They make $9 billion a year. Commissioner makes $44 million/year.

If you look at these companies, they all look like for-profit organizations to me. They are big business. To me a non-profit should be a charity, true church...an organization that helps the public good. Their main goal is to help people, not make a lot of money. That is just tax evasion.

When you consider that for-profit SeaWorld didn't pay taxes even in 2011 when they had record earnings it probably doesn't even matter if a company is for profit or non-profit. If they are bringing in enough money, they will find a creative way to not pay any taxes. I think if the nation wants to get a better grip on taxes, the economy, they need to rein in this tax abuse. They are all businesses making an awful lot of money.

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Babies need new beds! Raising money for incubators for baby wildlife. If you can't donate, please share. Thanks! Animal Advocates.

Babies need new beds, incubators. Animal Advocates, Los Angeles, California non-profit, Mary Cummins

We're raising money to buy some of these professional incubators. We've been using tupperware containers with heating pads underneath for over 30 years. They new heating pads turn off. The older ones would sometimes melt the underside of the container or shelving underneath. It's time to get something better. The mechanical base model is $375 but we need the bigger size which is $525.

Animal Advocates, incubator, baby, beds wildlife, Los Angeles, California, Mary Cummins

We'd really appreciate it if you could make a small donation toward our incubator fund. You can donate via PayPal to donate@animaladvocates.us or click this link.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=58WN7JLLXNRMU

You can also send us a check to Animal Advocates, 645 W 9th St #110-140, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1640. Thanks so much!

Mary Cummins
President
Animal Advocates
http://www.AnimalAdvocates.us
http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA
Licensed by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and USDA
Legal 501 3c non-profit organization recognized by the IRS since 2002 EIN # 48-1287089
http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/48-1287089/animal-advocates.aspx
Legal California non-profit corporation since 2002
http://www.animaladvocates.us/animal_advocates_legal_corporation.jpg

Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.

Mary Cummins

Monday, July 1, 2013

Los Angeles Business Journal Names Animal Advocates Top Nonprofit in Los Angeles, California

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Animal Advocates Nominated as One of the Top Nonprofits in LA by the Los Angeles Business Journal

Animal Advocates was nominated as one of the top nonprofits in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The awards ceremony took place at their 3rd annual Nonprofit & Corporate Citizenship Awards ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA on June 19, 2013. LABJ honored professionals and organizations that continue to make a positive impact on the community.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JULY 01, 2013

LABJ Publisher and CEO Matthew A. Toledo stated "Our Awards are designed to honor those professionals and organizations in the nonprofit world that continue to make a positive impact on the community and do so under difficult financial constraints." Toledo continued "We thank and salute all of the nominees." "You are more than heroes - you are an essential part of future corporate and societal success."

Mary Cummins President of Animal Advocates stated "we are honored to have been one of only two animal nonprofits nominated. We are also the only Fish & Wildlife licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility in the City of Los Angeles which covers over 500 square miles and 3.8 million people. We look forward to continuing to help native wildlife and people in the City."

About Animal Advocates: Animal Advocates is licensed by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and the USDA to rescue and rehabilitate ill, injured and orphaned native wildlife for release back to the wild. We rescue coyotes, bobcats, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, squirrels…all the way down to bats. Animal Advocates also provides wildlife education, humane nuisance wildlife control and has a small sanctuary for unreleasable wildlife.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10886744.htm

Mary Cummins

Mary Cummins Animal Advocates Los Angeles California Wildlife Rehabilitation Real Estate

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