United Poultry Concerns
Address: P.O. Box
150
Machipongo, VA 23405
Email: info@upc-online.org
Website:
www.upc-online.org
Officers and directors
Karen Davis, Machipongo, VA 23405, President, salary $9,720, benefits, $275
Allan Cate, Germantown, MD 20874, Vice President
Joan Hotgraver, Silver Spring, MD 20910, Secretary/Treasurer
2000 revenue: $120,030
$117,984 in grants of $5,000 or more. Almost totally grant driven.
Has an investment portfolio of $22,355 in Salomon Brothers Funds and Paine
Webber.
Projects: United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
is led by eccentric Karen Davis. The group protests the eating of chicken,
turkey, geese, ducks and eggs .
Davis wrote in the December 2000 Vegan Voice newsletter: "If it were up to
me, there would be no ‘domestic’ animals, by which I mean there would be no
slavery, no animal property, no ‘pets.’ Other creatures would live their
lives, raising their families, having their own projects."
Harms: UPC protests eating turkey at Thanksgiving
time and demonstrates against the White House Lawn Easter Egg Roll.
UPC occasionally forces the closure of farmers’-market chicken stands for
alleged mistreatment of poultry.
Major Funders:
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Funders
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Foundation |
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Total Donated |
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Time Frame |
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Helen Brach Foundation |
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$15,000.00 |
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1998 - 1999 |
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Park Foundation |
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$10,000.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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Komie Foundation |
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$5,200.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
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$5,000.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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Abell Foundation |
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$5,000.00 |
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2000 - 2000 |
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Pasadena Foundation |
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$5,000.00 |
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2000 - 2000 |
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Summerlee Foundation |
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$10,000.00 |
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1999 - 1999 |
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Ahimsa Foundation |
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$2,500.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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Two Mauds, Inc. |
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$4,000.00 |
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1998 - 1999 |
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New York Community Trust |
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$2,000.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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Anderlick Charitable Gift Fund |
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$1,500.00 |
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1998 - 1998 |
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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation |
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$1,050.00 |
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1998 - 1999 |
Sample Donor:
FOUNDATION NAME: Helen V. Brach Foundation
ABSTRACT: For unrestricted support
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000
FOUNDATION NAME: Helen V. Brach Foundation
AMOUNT: $10,000 YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995
Helen Voorhees Brach was the Brach's Candy
heiress, a colorful and tragic figure. She loved animals. She left a pile of
money to her foundation, which gives money to all sorts of non-profits. It gets
its money from investments, a diversified managed portfolio of government
obligations, corporate common stocks and corporate bonds.
The Brach Foundation owns stocks in lots of meat using companies:
$448,000 in shares of Campbell Soup Company
$623,000 in shares of McDonalds Corporation common stock
$854,00 in shares of Pepsico, owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken
$841,000 in shares of Safeway Inc.
and much more. Will UPC give back the $20,000 because it's tainted with blood?
Hmm, maybe not.
Oh, well, Brach Foundation also owns a lot of Harley Davidson stock. No doubt
their fine motorcycles are the preferred vehicle of the tofu and tahini crowd.
The Directors of the Helen V. Brach Foundation
are:
James J. O'Connor, Chicago, IL 60690 Director 2 hours per week - annual
compensation $16,000
John J. Sheridan, Libertyville, IL 60048 Director 2 hours per week- annual
compensation $16,000
R. Matthew Simon, Chicago, IL 60601 Director 2 hours per week- annual
compensation $16,000
Charles A. Voorhees, New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Director 2 hours per week-
annual compensation $16,000
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