• For policy and public advocacy, see our questions for advocacy programs.

Questions:

• Do you have more animals surrendered than you can take? What do you do in these cases?
• Do you have statistics on how often, and after how long, animals in your shelters are adopted?
• Do you have statistics on how often, and after how long, adopted animals are returned?
• What are your requirements for people to adopt animals? Do you have a process for verifying their eligibility?
• How do you monitor the living conditions in your shelters? (We recommend a visit to a shelter to gauge the living conditions of the animals.)
• How would your activities change if you had more revenue than expected? Less? Would more revenue translate directly into more animals accepted, and up to what point?

• Do you have a database of grants with the recipient, purpose, and size of grant for each?
• Do you have a summary breakdown of your grants by activity type, cause and/or region?
• Can you share full applications that were (a) accepted (b) rejected (c) partially funded or rejected primarily due to insufficient funds as opposed to poor application quality?
• How do you evaluate grantees after providing a grant? Can you share the full reports from your followup evaluations?
• Have there been cases in which grantees were found not to be in compliance with the grant requirements? How did you respond?
• How would your budget likely change if you had more revenue than expected? Less?

• What type of research do you fund?
• What portion of your organization's expenses are devoted to funding research as opposed to other activities?
• What sort of innovations are you hoping to fund, and within what time frame?
• Do you make grants to independent researchers or have your own in-house research staff?
• For grants to independent researchers:
  • Do you have more eligible grantees than you are able to fund? If so, what process do you use to narrow the field and select grantees?
  • How would you likely use additional funds?
• For in-house own research staff:
  • What are the qualifications of your staff?
  • Would additional funds enable you to hire more staff? How would you use additional funds?
• Do you have reports that provide your organization's track record of producing concrete output from your research - for example, analysis of patents, publications, or citations that came from your research?
• What are the biggest research contributions that your organization has been a part of to date? What was the role of other organizations in these contributions?
• To what extent does your funding overlap with (i.e., fund the same organizations as) government funding? Private-sector funding?

• What messages are emphasized? How is instruction given?
• Who are the students? What is their past involvement with the religion?
• How are student taught to regard those who are not members of the religion or religious sect?
• To what extent does the organization follow students over time? Does it track what percentage of former students remain involved in the religion and the extent of their involvement?
• How much has been spent? How many students have participated? How much instruction have they each received?
• How would your budget likely change if you had more revenue than expected? Less? Would additional revenue translate directly into more students given instruction, and up to what point?