Grant Guidelines

Maddie's Fund^® will offer grants to adoption guarantee shelters for medical equipment. Any adoption guarantee shelter that is located in the U.S. and employs at least one full-time veterinarian is eligible to apply.

An adoption guarantee shelter saves all the healthy and treatable animals under their care, with euthanasia reserved only for unhealthy & untreatable animals. An adoption guarantee organization could be an animal shelter, rescue group, foster care organization, or sanctuary.

An animal organization does not have to say it's an adoption guarantee organization to qualify for this funding opportunity, but it does have to: (1) save all healthy and treatable animals under its care and make public its commitment to doing so; (2) clearly articulate to its community that it is saving all healthy and treatable animals under its care; (3) use the definitions of healthy and treatable as described in the Asilomar Accords; and (4) agree to publish, at least annually, in the organization's primary publications and on its website, the organization's shelter statistics using the Asilomar Accords Annual Animal Statistics Table.

Proposals should include the description and cost of the medical equipment to be purchased; the number of animals to be cared for as a result of the equipment; a general overview of the shelter's current medical program(s); proof of the organization's tax exempt status (i.e., a copy of the organization's IRS Determination Letter); evidence that the shelter meets the full-time veterinarian requirement; and annual shelter statistics from the most recent twelve-month period using the Annual Animal Statistics Table and the definitions of healthy, treatable, and unhealthy & untreatable described in the Asilomar Accords. Grant size is determined by the impact the grant will have on saving the healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats in the community.

To qualify for a Maddie's^® Medical Equipment grant, adoption guarantee shelters must agree to annually publish their shelter statistics using the Asilomar Accords Annual Animal Statistics Table in primary publications and on their websites.

Qualified applications will be submitted to the Maddie's Fund Board for their review and approval. All funding decisions are at the discretion of the Maddie's Fund Board.

Proposals should be sent to Maddie's Fund via e-mail (grants@maddies.org) or snail mail (Maddie's Fund, 2223 Santa Clara Avenue, Suite B, Alameda, CA 94501. If you have any questions, please contact Maddie's Fund at 510-337-8989 or grants@maddies.org.