Grants for Animal Rescue

Background

The Summerlee Foundation promotes a new ethic toward our fellow beings, supporting efforts to research, rehabilitate, rescue, protect, and advocate for animals. Our grantees give second chances to companion animals and injured or orphaned wildlife, provide refuge and sanctuary for exploited wild and domesticated animals, increase the understanding and protection of wild carnivores, and bring about the demise of policies and practices that abuse animals.

Collectively, we alleviate fear, pain, and suffering in animals’ lives, advance and expand the rights of animals, defend the laws that protect them, and create policies and programs to address new grievances against them. Through thousands of grants totaling over $60 million and counting, the Summerlee Foundation is honored to play a small role in the accomplishments of so many passionate, committed organizations in their tireless work to protect animals.

Program Goals

Our aim is to help the most overlooked, underfunded, and heavily exploited animals. The majority of our funding goes to small and medium-sized, lean and agile groups where we believe our contribution can be used quickly and have an outsized impact. We believe in balancing hands-on, urgent, direct care for individual animals with efforts to address the root causes of suffering to affect a more enduring, systemic change. We know we can’t often rescue, adopt or rehab our way out of core problems.

Programmatically

Cats only in the United States and Canada

• The tragedy of cat overpopulation and homelessness in this country results in intense and immense suffering due to disease, starvation, and inhumane practices by some local communities and agencies.
• Funding emphasis is on sterilization and vaccination primarily in rural or underserved communities.

Dogs only in the United States, Latin America or living in First Nations/Native American communities

• Emphasis on sterilization, vaccination, and humane euthanasia.

Wildlife

• Primarily mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, and black bears, funding only those programs which protect through ethical-based research and advocacy/educational campaigns.

Marine Life

• Emphasis on addressing marine mammal issues, health and well-being and anti-captivity (dolphins and orcas).

Sanctuary for Captive Wild Animals

• Captive wild animal sanctuaries should be verified or accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

Wildlife Rehabilitation

• Emphasis on hands-on animal care and well-being (emergency rescue, food, medications, housing improvements).

Background

Thornton ("Tawny") S. Glide, Jr. and his wife, Katrina ("Scatter") Dangberg Glide, were long-time residents of the T.S. Glide Ranch in Yolo County, California. They owned and operated farms and ranches in and about Northern California. Their interests were horses and other animals, farming, preserving open spaces, and civic endeavors. 

Upon their respective deaths in July 1995, they established the Thornton S. Glide, Jr. and Katrina D. Glide Foundation, a perpetual California charitable trust. Its purpose is to provide benefits for qualified organizations committed to animal protection organizations, other land and wildlife conservancy groups, agricultural purposes, preservation of land in its natural state, and opera, symphony, and other similar civic organizations.

​About Us

As a privately endowed family foundation, the mission of The Neal Foundation is to provide grant opportunities to  organizations involved in ongoing activities promoting the humane treatment of animals through the prevention of neglect, suffering, abuse, and cruelty.

​These activities include but are not limited to; rescue, fostering, adoption, spay, neutering, and humane education.

It is our hope and intent to make a difference for the animals that offer us companionship,  loyalty, and unconditional love that too often are left abandoned, hungry, sick, or in pain.

The Animal Defence Trust

The Animal Defence Trust is a charity whose main aims are the welfare of animals and protection of them from cruelty and suffering, the promotion of research to discover ways of reducing the use of animals in scientific research, and the establishment of inspections of animal transportation to ensure proper and humane accommodation.

The charity works throughout England and Wales and from time to time may work worldwide.

The Animal Defence Trust makes grants to approved charities working in animal welfare in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Grants are available to animal charities who care for animals which have undergone suffering and cruelty before rescue. Applications for grants are welcome from registered charities.

Policies and Objectives

The objects of the charity are:

• To protect animals from cruelty and suffering and to promote humane behaviour to animals so as to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted upon animals by mankind.
• To promote and publish the results of research undertaken with a view to discovering means, whereby as far as possible, medical biological pharmaceutical and other research may be carried out without the use of animals and whereby as far as possible any pain and fear suffered by animals used in connection therewith may be eliminated or reduced.
• To assist in the establishment and maintenance of a body of inspectors to ensure that animals transported to docks, airports, markets, auction sales, exhibitions, circus shows and other places, events and meetings, are transported in proper and humane conditions and that animals are accommodated properly and humanely wherever they may be.

We know it takes a big heart to protect tiny animals.

That’s why we’re committed to supporting the work of animal rescue organizations year-round through our Rescue Support Program and Annual Rescue Grant Program.

Rescue Support Program

We want to help you perform the important work you do every day. Through our Rescue Support Program, as a qualified animal care organization, you will find the product, support, and education needed to help fulfill your mission of rescue and animal rehabilitation.

Some program benefits include:

• Economical Pricing
  • Oxbow Rescue Program members receive special, economical pricing on our full line of products for in-house use and to support resale and fundraising opportunities.
• Event Support
  • Members are eligible for event support in the form of raffle prizes, handouts, activities, games, product literature and educational materials.
• Emergency Assistance
  • Emergency care demands come without notice, and we’re prepared to provide donations when help is needed the most.
• Educational Support
  • Oxbow Rescue Support Program members have special access to literature, training materials, and nutritional guidance to help train staff, volunteers and adopting families.

Rescue Grant Program

We want to help you perform the important work you do every day. Through our Rescue Support Program, as a qualified animal care organization, you will find the product, support, and education needed to help fulfill your mission of rescue and animal rehabilitation.

Grant Categories Include: 

• Education and Outreach Support
  • Educational and outreach programs, training materials, leaflets and videos
• Capital Improvement Support
  •  Renovations, additions, new structures, and equipment purchases
• Operating Support
  • Support to assist with normal operating expenses such as food, utilities, and veterinary care

The total annual funding for the Oxbow Rescue Grants is approximately $25,000. This amount will be advocated to, on average, 6-10 organizations. Grant amounts will vary, and we reserve the right to allocate a percentage of requested amounts. With this in mind, your funding request amount should be directly correlated to your specific project or annual operating needs.

The William and Charlotte Parks Foundation for Animal Welfare

The Foundation was established to improve the status of animals worldwide through studies of the science and philosophy of animal welfare/rights and to reduce, through practical efforts and initiatives, the suffering and harm inflicted on animals by human beings.

The Grants Committee makes grants to both animal protection organizations and to individual scholars pursuing work consistent with the goals of the Trust founders.

Types of Grants

The Parks Foundation makes awards, usually not more than $10,000 per annum, to support projects, research, and other activities calculated to advance the welfare of animals.

The Parks Foundation currently ONLY considers applications for Project Grants

The application should describe the need for the project (e.g., how will the status of animals be improved), outline its basic protocols, and discuss its feasibility, the likely chance of its success, and the methods by which it will be evaluated. The applicant organization should provide a projected annual budget and time for completion, and list other entities that have been approached for financial support, and the stage these applications have reached. The qualifications of the project director should also be provided. Proposals will be judged by a number of criteria, including originality, potential impact on animal welfare, the number of animals affected, the project’s time frame, and feasibility, the track record of the applicant, the need for the program or data, the public accountability of the organization, and the likelihood of achieving other sources of funding.

Successful applications include:

• Evidence that the organization or applicant is making a concerted effort to assess the effectiveness of programs;
• Evidence that the organization has been striving in substantial ways to reduce animal pain, stress, and suffering, and to improve animal welfare.

In recent years successful applicants have received project grants to support:

• adoption programs;
• enrichment initiatives;
• animal rescue training;
• research and data websites;
• equipment purchase or small-scale repairs or renovations tied to specific program initiatives;
• canine behavior training;
• public awareness campaigns;
• humane education;
• campaign plans;
• law enforcement training;
• small-scale facility additions;
• cage purchases;
• conference and festivals;
• curriculum development;
• staff training and education;
• anti-cruelty hotlines;
• animal welfare certification initiatives;
• psychology and social psychology research concerning cruelty and kindness;
• habitat enhancement; and
• disaster response and recovery activities. 

Other areas of potential interest to the Parks Foundation grants committee including

• the development of alternatives in education;
• the development of best practices in companion animal care and services;
• application of the “Three R’s” approach (refinement, replacement, and reduction of animal use to reduce animal pain or suffering) in laboratory, agricultural, and other sectors;
• methods and strategies of population control;
• predator protection;
• the prevention of animal cruelty through social or other interventions;
• promoting knowledge and awareness of the science, philosophy, and ethics of animal welfare and animal rights;
• research and survey work concerning public attitudes and behaviors; and animal welfare publishing.

PNC Charitable Trusts

The PNC Charitable Trust Grant Review Committee serves charitable trusts and private foundations for which PNC is trustee. The Committee's mission is to implement the legacies set forth by the individual donors who established these trust relationships with PNC by distributing grants to worthy 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations at local and regional levels.

In accordance with the provisions of the trust agreements, the Committee funds grant requests that demonstrate a capacity and commitment to charitable service and enhance the quality of life for the people and their communities.Our Grantmaking Priorities

• Organizations that are direct providers of services, with projects and programs that meet our donors' intent
• Programs in communities where donors lived and/or engaged in their grantmaking activities
• Applicant demonstrates a capacity to meet the stated objectives of the request; and those objectives are clearly articulated and measurable
• The critical nature of the need being addressed by the proposed program
• Organizations with strong leadership, diversified income streams, and long-term sustainability that have demonstrated efficiencies in delivering their services

Our Committee supports projects and programs that:

• Reflect the core social mission of the applicant's organization
• Address a need in the community and for which there is a demonstrated demand
• Have broad impact or benefit underserved populations
• Have measurable outcomes and a plan for documenting results
• Have detailed project budgets and demonstrate effective financial accountability
• Involve collaboration with other organizations
• Support year-round programming
• Complement rather than duplicate the work of other non-profit organizations
• Are submitted from organizations that have 3 years of operation in full service to others.
  • Also, the program or project for which you are applying needs to have at least one (1) complete year with a report showing the measurable impact available prior to applying

The grants are one-time awards and are not pledges of continued support. Size of grants depends on the fit with donors' intent, availability of funds, breadth of organizations represented in the grant proposal mix, and the project's social impact.

The Edith J Goode Residuary Trust

The Edith J. Goode Residuary Trust operates exclusively to support organizations whose focus is on the prevention of cruelty to animals. Each year, focus areas will be selected. Letters of inquiry should be submitted from February 1 to May 1. After a review of the letters if inquiry, organizations will be selected by the Committee and invited to submit a formal application through the Charitable Trusts portal for either the August 1 or October 1 deadline.

The 2024 focus areas are:

• Programs that assist pets of unhoused populations
• Domestic violence assistance that allows animals and their caretakers to leave together
• Parrot rescues or sanctuaries

About the Banfield Foundation

Since 2015, Banfield Foundation has been making preventive care possible for the pets that need it most. Through grants and partnerships, we provide medical supplies and resources to nonprofit partners in need; support pets, people and communities in crisis; and enable veterinary professionals to deliver compassionate and inclusive preventive veterinary care in under resourced communities areas across the nation. We also leverage the expertise and passion of Banfield Pet Hospital, part of Mars Veterinary Health, and its Associates to care for pets in need. At the Banfield Foundation, we are committed to living our collective purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Disaster Relief Grant

This grant program is for nonprofit animal welfare organizations and/or government agencies whose communities suffer the impact of natural or other disasters.

Grants will also be considered for organizations that have not been directly impacted by a disaster but are helping another organization in need such as the rescue and/or intake of animals. 

Grant funding can be used for:

• Medical supplies and veterinary care treatment for pets 
• Pet food, pet supplies, including crates, etc.
• Temporary shelter or boarding costs for rescued or at-risk pets
• Other immediately needed materials including cleaning supplies, tarps, bedding, blankets, etc. to keep pets safe and comfortable
• Transportation costs to rescue or relocate pets
• Other expenses related to providing temporary shelter for rescued pets including overtime salaries, rental equipment or facilities, cleanup costs, etc.
• Reimbursement up to three months post-disaster for expenses incurred and related to the above. 

About Us

PEDIGREE Foundation is working to find a solution to the problem of the millions of homeless dogs in this country. Through our grant programs, we support organizations that save the lives of dogs that would otherwise be lost.

The Foundation was established in 2008 by dog lovers with a passionate belief that every dog deserves a loving home. PEDIGREE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation that supports shelters and rescue organizations, as well as encouraging people to ADOPT, VOLUNTEER, and DONATE.

PEDIGREE Foundation grants are funded by the PEDIGREE® Brand and contributions from dog lovers like you. Your tax-deductible donation* helps us reach even more dogs in need.

Program Development Grants 

To increase adoption rates, with a priority on the following types of programs: transport, matching and foster.

Specifically, our grants are intended to:

• help improve the quality of care of dogs while in shelter or rescue to increase adoption potential
• increase adoption rates within shelters or rescues through programs and/or new initiatives in the animal welfare community 

Love Stories Grant Campaign

Every year, Petco Love, in partnership with BOBS® from Skechers®, celebrates the life changing impact of pet adoption and empowers animal welfare organizations to continue saving more pet lives by acknowledging their hard work with a lifesaving grant award.

Since 2013, more than 25,000 adopters, like you, have shared their Love Story, and we’ve awarded $8 million in lifesaving grants to the animal welfare organizations that make these adoptions possible.

Tips for telling your Love Story

• Focus on what’s unique about your adopted pet’s love and how that love has changed your life.
• Share what only your adopted pet does that makes you feel special.
• Show the love in high quality photos and videos of you and your pet.

What topic should the story be about?

Your submitted Love Story should share how your adopted pet’s unique love changes your life for the better. Stories can range from the simple yet unique ways your pet shows you love and how that unique love brings joy to your everyday life — to the larger-than-life ways your pet’s unique love has changed your life.

Big or small, short-haired, long-haired or no-hair, celebrate how your life has changed for the better given the love that only your adopted pet can provide.

Help us feel like we are experiencing the unique love of your pet. Compelling storytelling, photos and videos will help make your submission stand out from the rest.

The Petco Foundation

Since 1999, we’ve invested millions in adoption and medical care programs, spay and neuter services, pet cancer research and numerous other lifesaving initiatives—always investing wisely in organizations with the most lifesaving impact. In partnership with animal welfare organizations and 1,500 Petco stores across the country, we help bring pets together with loving families every day.

About our investments

As one of the nation's largest funders of animal welfare causes, we hold a responsibility and obligation to invest funds wisely in organizations that achieve their mission and vision. Therefore, success, accountability, and prudent use of funds are important to our grant analysis and follow-up process. We have an expectation that animal welfare organizations continually endeavor to achieve a high standard of doing more, and are determined to save as many lives as possible with our investment.

Grants For Sheltering and Adoption Organizations

Organization Type: Our applications are categorized by organization type instead of by type of project or program. It is important that you read the organization type definitions carefully prior to filling out an application and that you apply using the correct application for your organization. The three organization types below are eligible to apply during the Animal Welfare Organizations grant cycle:

Please read the descriptions below and select the most appropriate category for your organization:

• Non-profit organization that is primarily a foster-based rescue.
  • 501c3 nonprofit organizations performing adoptions of companion animals; and
  • A primary service of your organization is temporarily caring for animals in need for the purpose of finding them new homes.
• Nonprofit or municipal agency that is responsible for animal control sheltering (legally or contractually obligated to accept stray dogs or cats).
  • Municipal or other governmental agency, department or division providing animal control sheltering per local ordinance as well as other services, including adoptions; OR
  • 501c3 nonprofit organizations legally or contractually obligated to accept stray dogs or cats from 1 or more municipalities in addition performing adoptions and other services.
• Nonprofit, SPCA, or Humane Society that operates a shelter and performs adoptions.
  • o501c3 nonprofit organizations performing sheltering and adoptions of companion animals; and
  • A primary service of your organization is temporarily caring for animals in need for the purpose of finding them new homes; and
  • You operate out of a sheltering facility.
  • Organizations applying under this application may also perform significant other functions like spay/neuter surgeries and veterinary clinic services in addition to the primary service of placing animals up for adoption.
  • IMPORTANT: If your organization is legally or contractually obligated to accept stray dogs or cats from 1 or more municipalities in addition performing adoptions and other services, please select the organization type: Nonprofit or municipal agency that is responsible for animal control sheltering (legally or contractually obligated to accept stray dogs or cats)

For the organization types listed above:

• There is one grant cycle available during each year.
• Applicants may submit one proposal per grant cycle.
• For organizations receiving multi-year funding, all installment payments must have been completed before submitting a new application.
• For organizations that have received funding in the past, all outstanding grant reports must be completed before submitting a new application.
• ALL organizations must also submit their Annual Partnership Report* with their animal data for the previous year along with their most recent financial information. *Grant applications received from organizations who have not also submitted their Annual Partnership Report will be automatically declined.
• The person submitting the application must be an authorized representative of such organization. If you are a
• “Friends of” organization, we recommend you work with the primary animal intake organization and assist them in completing the application. 

Lifesaving Impact Award/Plan

If your organization serves a significant number of animals (at least 2,500 annual intake), you may apply for a lifesaving impact award. Lifesaving impact awards are grants of $100,000 or more and/or multi-year awards. Lifesaving impact awards are very limited and the process to request such award is more extensive. The amount of such award that your organization is seeking should be directly related to the number of animals that your organization serves, the percentage impact that our investment will make on your lifesaving efforts and many other factors.

Finalists for lifesaving impact awards may be required to submit additional information to the Foundation or participate in interviews prior to a decision being rendered. Lifesaving impact awards may be submitted for any purpose provided that your lifesaving impact award is expected to result in an increase in your lifesaving percentage or other significant positive impact for the animals of your community.

Lifesaving impact awards requests may be submitted for any lifesaving purpose. With a request for a lifesaving impact award you are required to submit a detailed plan to increase the lifesaving rate in your community, and describe how our investment will assist in such efforts. 

The Petfinder Foundation disaster-relief program was designed to assist Petfinder members and their adoptable pets who have been struck by a natural disaster.  Funding from this program must support natural or human-made disasters that hit a community like hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, floods, earthquakes, extreme weather (freezing temps, significant snowstorms, extreme heat), and other events that devastate animal shelters and rescue groups.

About Us

The Petfinder Foundation is a public charity that works to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets by assisting animal shelters and rescue groups across North America. Founded in 2003, the Petfinder Foundation has given more than $20 million in cash and product grants to help organizations save the lives of pets in need.  

Our grant programs are designed to make homeless pets more adoptable by keeping them happy and healthy, to make shelter operations more sustainable, and to aid adoption groups during times of natural or man-made disaster. Our grant recipients include more than 13,000 organizations, caring for more than 300,000 homeless pets at any given time, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. 

P.L.A.Y. Pet Beds 

The Petfinder Foundation has partnered with P.L.A.Y. Pet Lifestyle and You through the Warm Bellies Initiative to give luxury beds to shelter pets. P.L.A.Y. joins us in the belief that every pet deserves a warm and cozy place to sleep.

Applications are reviewed and awarded 10 Chill Pads on a monthly basis to specific geographical regions. You may apply for this grant program once. Grant applications from this program are reviewed based on the location of your organization and the monthly state awarding schedule below:

• January: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
• February: Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York
• March - Pennsylvania, New Jersey
• April: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
• May: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
• June: Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin
• July: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
• August: Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
• September: Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming
• October: Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas
• November: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada
• December: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas

About Us

The Petfinder Foundation is a public charity that works to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets by assisting animal shelters and rescue groups across North America. Founded in 2003, the Petfinder Foundation has given more than $20 million in cash and product grants to help organizations save the lives of pets in need.  

Our grant programs are designed to make homeless pets more adoptable by keeping them happy and healthy, to make shelter operations more sustainable, and to aid adoption groups during times of natural or man-made disaster. Our grant recipients include more than 13,000 organizations, caring for more than 300,000 homeless pets at any given time, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

KONG Toy Grant

The Petfinder Foundation is working with KONG to provide enrichment toys to shelters and adopters across the country. KONG joins the Petfinder Foundation in the belief that, by providing enrichment toys to shelter pets, we stimulate their minds, making them more adoptable.

This grant is a product grant in the form of KONG Toys to Pathfinder members.

The Petfinder Foundation is a public charity that works to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets by assisting animal shelters and rescue groups across North America. Founded in 2003, the Petfinder Foundation has given more than $20 million in cash and product grants to help organizations save the lives of pets in need. 

Our grant programs are designed to make homeless pets more adoptable by keeping them happy and healthy, to make shelter operations more sustainable, and to aid adoption groups during times of natural or man-made disaster. Our grant recipients include more than 13,000 organizations, caring for more than 300,000 homeless pets at any given time, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Emergency Medical Grant

The Petfinder Foundation Emergency Medical Grant program assists Petfinder members in caring for ONE PET in need of emergency medical care to become adoptable. Eligible expenses may include but are not limited to emergency care for accidents resulting in broken bones, poisoning, car accident, laceration, foreign object ingestion, surgeries for hip and elbow dysplasia, cherry eye, extensive dental surgery, tumor, cancer, mass removal, cleft lip/palate, glaucoma, and epilepsy.

Grants & Advocacy

The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation partners with and provides grants to select nonprofit organizations across the United States whose guiding principles are aligned with our fundamental goals. We strive to work with dynamic and proactive groups who can deliver successful programs that:

• Benefit as many animals as possible.
• Maximize awareness, education, and efficiency.
• Produce measurable results.
• Promote positive change.
• Leverage support from other sources.

These organizations help support our mission by offering free or subsidized spay and neuter clinics, adoption, rescue, foster and transport services, obedience training and pet care education; and, they are directly involved in the fight against the inhumane treatment of animals.

Collectively, we promote the adoption of companion pets from local shelters and discourage the purchase of pets from pet stores that obtain animals from commercial puppy factories know as “puppy mills.”

We are fierce advocates of a compassion revolution — a collective effort by animal advocates across our country to work together to end animal overpopulation and cruelty. This may seem like an overwhelming challenge, but impossible tasks can be accomplished if we take them on in measured steps.

Grant FocusThe focus of our grant program is currently the Namaste Spay and Neuter initiative, which we believe will have the most significant impact on animals nationwide. We prioritize applications that seek to implement this initiative.

Mission

The primary mission of the Laura J. Niles Foundation is to encourage and support efforts to improve the lives of animals. The Foundation seeks to benefit animals in general, and dogs in particular, by supporting research, training, and adoption programs and projects. Programs which enhance the human-animal bond are viewed with favor.  

Primary Program Interests

Animals - The Foundation is seeking ways to benefit animals, particularly dogs, and is especially interested in programs that help animals and people, simultaneously. The Foundation is targeting areas that include animal medical research, animal protection, adoption, search & rescue, assistance dogs, equine therapy and similar areas of endeavor. Currently, the Foundation does not consider spay/neuter programs to be a priority, given the limited funds which are available. 

Education - a secondary area of focus for the Foundation is the education of economically disadvantaged youth. This program area includes primary, secondary and higher education.

Guiding Principles and Considerations 

• The goal of the Foundation's Board is to pursue a deliberate and proactive course of "strategic philanthropy"
• Favors programs addressing long-term solutions to the causes of problems, as distinguished from programs that simply treat the symptoms.
• Added emphasis on programs and organizations that address the intersection of its various interests.
• Encourages pilot initiatives that test new program models.
• Particular interest in organizations that promote collaborative efforts among groups and organizations.
• Qualities sought by the Foundation in its grantee organizations are: effective and dynamic personnel; passionate leadership; a bias against bureaucracy; prudent managements & governance practices; and commitment to results and overall assessment of program impact.

See FAQ for additional guidelines

Saving Lives Together

BISSELL Pet Foundation exists to assist animal welfare organizations. That’s you! Currently, we partner with over 5,907 animal welfare organizations in all 50 states. Joining our Partners for Pets program is a requirement for eligibility for grant funding opportunities. 

Why We Partner

BPF’s Partners for Pets program is designed to support shelters, rescue groups and spay/neuter organizations that are helping to reduce pet overpopulation across the United States.

Why Join

• Eligibility to apply for grants
• Opportunity to be invited to Empty the Shelters
• Valuable connections to our growing partner network
• Eligibility to receive financial support when your organization is experiencing an emergency
• Eligibility to receive financial support through our Grateful Pet award program
• Eligibility to be considered for our annual Feed the Shelters program
• Opportunities to participate in surveys/focus groups and network with other animal welfare organizations

Disaster Relief

We're here to help in the event of large-scale natural disasters in the United States and Canada. Funds are aimed toward support of rescue, relief, response, and recovery efforts of impacted pets.

Cash grants are awarded to support sheltering supplies and infrastructure, reunification efforts, necessary veterinary care, and staffing and volunteer needs for those working with pets in impacted areas.

Our grants support organizations whose mission enriches the lives of pets and the people who love them.

Grant funds can be used for:

• Purchases for necessary immediate sheltering needs for up to 30 days (kennels, crates, carriers, food, waste management, bowls, leads/leashes)
• Medical expenses to provide required and/or necessary vaccinations and immediate medical care for impacted pets
• Staffing and volunteer costs including wages, lodging, meals and transport expenses

The Rachael Ray Save Them All Grants fund projects that increase lifesaving of cats and dogs in U.S. shelters. We welcome project proposals from public and private shelters, as well as rescue groups and other animal welfare organizations focused on impacting lifesaving at shelters. 

What types of projects are considered?

Projects can be focused on just one event/program or can include multiple events/programs. Here are a few examples of previously funded Save Them All Grants

• Implementing programs that provide intake prevention services for the community
• Increase of Return to Field or Adoption via working cat program
• Providing advanced medical care for target number of at risk pets
• Return to owner efforts expanded through waived Return to Owner fees
• Shelter enrichment for large dogs at-risk for kennel decline
• Training and behavior services for at-risk dogs at shelter
• Transferring in at risk population (i.e. underage kittens, adult cats, large breed dogs) from targeted shelter

How much funding can I request?Your organization can apply for a grant of up to $50,000, with the amount requested not exceeding 10% of your operating budget. The average grant awarded last year was just over $30,000, therefore granting may only cover partial funding needed for your project. 

About Us

PEDIGREE Foundation is working to find a solution to the problem of the millions of homeless dogs in this country. Through our grant programs, we support organizations that save the lives of dogs that would otherwise be lost.

The Foundation was established in 2008 by dog lovers with a passionate belief that every dog deserves a loving home. PEDIGREE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation that supports shelters and rescue organizations, as well as encouraging people to ADOPT, VOLUNTEER, and DONATE.

PEDIGREE Foundation grants are funded by the PEDIGREE® Brand and contributions from dog lovers like you. Your tax-deductible donation* helps us reach even more dogs in need.

Dogs Rule Grant

One grant is available in to support an innovative initiative that focuses on increasing adoptions rates with a requirement to deliver a manual or toolkit by the end of the program to share with the animal welfare community.

Specifically, our grants are intended to:

• help improve the quality of care of dogs while in shelter or rescue to increase adoption potential
• increase adoption rates within shelters or rescues through programs and/or new initiatives in the animal welfare community

About Us

The Petfinder Foundation is a public charity that works to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets by assisting animal shelters and rescue groups across North America. Founded in 2003, the Petfinder Foundation has given more than $20 million in cash and product grants to help organizations save the lives of pets in need.  

Our grant programs are designed to make homeless pets more adoptable by keeping them happy and healthy, to make shelter operations more sustainable, and to aid adoption groups during times of natural or man-made disaster. Our grant recipients include more than 13,000 organizations, caring for more than 300,000 homeless pets at any given time, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Cat Enrichment

Grants range from $100-$1000 and are awarded on a monthly basis throughout the year until all funds are depleted.

Every adoptable cat deserves enrichment to stay happy and healthy while waiting for a new home. Grant funds must be used to provide enrichment for cats, which can include indoor entertainment using products and objects, allowing cats to enjoy the outdoors safely or human interactive cat-enrichment activities.

Our Mission Statement

The Von Voigtlander Family Foundation, an irrevocable charitable trust under Michigan law was created by Jeff and Kathleen Von Voigtlander.

Our mission is to make the world a better place by being part of the building and strengthening of those in need of assistance.

• The Foundation will strive to support public education through grants to education institutions for scholarships, extracurricular programs, athletics, technology, and motivational speakers for assemblies, as well as other educational needs.
• We will strive to make a difference in the lives of under-privileged, disabled and terminally ill children through grants to hospitals and other public charities for medical research, education, and programs dedicated to helping such children achieve their dreams.
• Since recreation and the preservation of land for the enjoyment of everyone ties to the well-being of both young and old, the Foundation will make grants to those public charities that work to protect our parks and recreational areas.
• We will also make grants in support of programs at public charities that are dedicated to the rescue and protection of animals due to disaster, abandonment, or abuse, as well as the training of dogs for special needs children and the disabled.
• The Foundation will focus on supporting our military and veterans affairs programs.

Areas of Focus:

Youth - Assisting our youth is an important facet of our Foundation’s mission. Providing scholarships to deserving students in need, supporting our public schools, and assisting programs and camps for disadvantaged children are ways that we strive to help our youth. Supporting these programs can benefit those with and without disabilities by giving them a sense of accomplishment and inclusion.

Animals - Pets are important members of many families. Our Foundation seeks to support animals of all kinds, from relocation and homing efforts, to assistance after natural disasters, to training service animals to assist with disabled members of our community.

Conservation -Our Foundation strives to support our community recreations areas, such as bike and hike trails. In addition to the many health benefits that these areas provide, such as reducing obesity and diminishing chronic diseases, recreational areas provide social benefits and support for our youth. Reducing crime and uniting families are some of the social benefits, and decreasing drug and alcohol use are ways that these areas support our youth population.

Military Veterans - Supporting those who have served is extremely important to the members of our Foundation. This includes the families of veterans, who are advocates in assisting veterans in getting the services they need and deserve. Supporting the training of service dogs for our veterans suffering from PTSD or other physical and mental disabilities is something we are all passionate about.

Community ConversationsMaddie’s Fund, hosts a weekly Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry and more. Each month, Maddie's Fund will be giving away up to $5,000 in grants. You can enter to win each time you attend a call or watch on-demand during the month by completing the giveaway drawing entry forms shared in the chat during the calls.

About Us

American Humane is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals.

For more than a hundred years American Humane has been first in promoting the welfare and safety of animals and strengthening the bond between animals and people.

We are first to serve, wherever animals are in need of rescue, shelter, protection or security. Through our innovative leadership initiatives – from our “No Animals Were Harmed®” program in Hollywood to broad-based farm and conservation animal welfare certifications, to rapid response rescue and care across the country – American Humane sets the gold standard as the most visionary and effective animal welfare organization in the nation.

Feed the Hungry COVID-19 Fund

Like every other business or organization in America, rescue shelters are struggling to maintain basic services and care for their animal residents in the face of the current worldwide pandemic. Thousands of animals are being left without homes and facilities are in desperate need of general supplies. In response to the overwhelming number of calls received from animal rescuers, shelters and first responders, American Humane launched the Feed the Hungry COVID-19 fund to feed and care for animals across the country who have been abandoned as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The fund seeks to raise much-needed resources to help shelters and rescue organizations that are not only fighting to keep the lights on, but also to keep critical supplies like food stocked.

Microsanctuaries of Color Fund

Historically, the sanctuary movement has lacked demographic diversity, often because the model of a traditional sanctuary requires extensive financial and other resources. However, people of color have always engaged in rescue and have provided sanctuary to non-human animals in need, and they make up a majority of new vegans and a growing portion of new microsanctuaries.

Microsanctuary Resource Center created the Microsanctuaries of Color Fund in partnership with Sanctuary Publishers to provide micro-grants to vegans of color who operate or wish to start microsanctuaries.

Funding

Our micro-grants of $500 (for individuals) or $1000 (non-profits) can be used for a variety of expenses.

Background

Microsanctuary Resource Center micro-grants are available for individuals and organizations engaged in rescuing and caring for farmed animals and other exploited species, especially on small scales. Our grants of $500 (for individuals) or $1,000 (non-profits) aim to help microsanctuaries and sanctuaries with a variety of expenses, from infrastructure, to special projects, to veterinary care.

Types of Funding

• Startup Fund
  • One-time grants to help with starting a microsanctuary or specific care expenses.
  • Microsanctuary should be less than one year old.
  • Ongoing expenses like food and supplies will not be considered.
  • 20 total animals or fewer.
  • VERY limited fundraising.
  • Limited placements/adoptions.
  • No unsupervised free-ranging of birds.
  • Ability to demonstrate proper, species-appropriate predator protection for any outside animals (fences, covered runs, digging barriers, etc.).
  • Ability to accommodate special needs, such as feeding of Cornish Crosses, when applicable.
  • Appropriate habitat for good quality of life.
  • Startup grants are not renewable.
• Reproductive Healthcare Fund
  • Used for contraception and other reproductive healthcare, by a veterinarian.
  • Limited placements/adoptions.
  • No unsupervised free-ranging of birds.
  • Ability to demonstrate proper, species-appropriate predator protection for any outside animals (fences, covered runs, digging barriers, etc.).
  • Ability to accommodate special needs, such as feeding of Cornish Crosses, when applicable.
  • Appropriate habitat for good quality of life.
  • Reproductive grants can be renewed once every 12 months from receipt of grant.
• Special Projects Fund
  • The goal of these grants is to assist with specific projects with expected cost of $5,000 or less, as well as specific medical care expenses for a resident or residents. 
    • While our other grant funds are focused on microsanctuaries, the Special Projects Fund is open to sanctuaries of all sizes.
  • However, sanctuaries must operate consistently with MRC’s Core Principles (including, obviously, promoting veganism) to receive a grant.
  • Ongoing expenses such as food, utility bills, etc. will not be eligible for funding.
  • The estimated cost for the project in question should not exceed $5,000.
  • Medical care for one resident or a specific medical need can be considered.
  • Grants are not renewable.