Funded Projects

Since 1999, Maddie's Fund^® has awarded animal welfare organizations and universities $71.6 million to save animal lives.

Maddie's Fund supports collaborative efforts in which entire cities and counties pool their talents and resources to build a safety net of care for the community's dogs and cats. The foundation awards millions of dollars through multi-year grants to animal welfare coalitions to end the killing of healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats community-wide. Starter Grants for gathering shelter statistics, writing business and strategic plans and developing Pet Evaluation Matrixes are available as precursors to community collaborative grants.

We also look to the veterinary community to help achieve the no-kill nation goal. Private practice veterinarians are encouraged to participate in Maddie supported low-income and targeted spay/neuter programs to help reduce the number of unwanted pets entering animal shelters.

Maddie's Fund offers grants to colleges of veterinary medicine to establish shelter medicine programs so that the specialized knowledge and skills of these institutions' faculty and students can be incorporated into the effort to save all healthy and treatable shelter pets nationwide.

And we provide special grants to pilot programs that promise new lifesaving methods; to organizations and communities that are leading the way in achieving lifesaving goals through marketing and other means; and to adoption guarantee shelters for new medical equipment.

Grantmaking efforts focus on organizations that honor the foundation's core values of honesty, integrity and mutual respect.

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