5-Minute Interview: Howard Baskin, chairman, Big Cat rescue

The bottom line is that the $107,000 and $190,000 in donations and tour revenue respectively in 2003 have grown to $600,000-plus and $500,000-plus respectively in 2007, with donations for the first time exceeding tour revenue. This has allowed us to build larger enclosures, buy better food, make much needed capital expenditures, and in the coming month start an Endowment Fund by seeding it from the operating funds.