in 2019, the aspca's ceo made more than $840,000.t's more than the ceo of the american red cross, a nonprofit ten times bigger than the aspca. >> we urgently need 3,000 new donors so we can rescue more animals. >> reporter: outside of new york and three other cities where it offers local services, the aspca has to deploy its animal rescue unitoirec something even tim in stes. pr some local animal welfare groups across the country. of the $2 billion it raised, the aspca gave $146 million, or 7% of the total money raised, to those groups. >> sign up for just 63 cents a day. >> reporter: during that same time period, we found it spent nearly three times that, at least $421 million, on fund raising. >> as an animal lover, you have to ask yourself, do the animals in my community get my donor dollars or my volunteer time or my donation, and is it going to change what i want it to change in my did i tell you? i'm going to get the $9.95 plan. the $9.95 plan? what's that? it's the colonial penn plan you see on tv for $9.95 a month. -you mean