Projects Over the Years

For over a decade, the Seattle Animal Foundation has supported programs at regional shelters. Below are highlights from what we have accomplished, thanks to your support.

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2025 Grants

Seattle Animal Foundation has committed over $500,000 in grants in 2025.

Best Chance Program $150,000

Established in 2024, this program provides pets and pet owners with their best chance at health and wellness with free monthly clinics across Seattle. The clinics, administered by the Seattle Animal Shelter and with no reservation required, provide free veterinary exams, dog and cat vaccines, deworming, flea treatments, microchipping and pet licensing in addition to free pet food and supplies. Emphasis is placed on building relationships with historically harder to reach populations, especially different ethnic and language groups. In 2024, more than 1,500 pets from over 900 households were assisted by the program. In its first year, the program had an overwhelmingly positive impact on public heath and serves as a blueprint for animal welfare organizations looking to make similar strides in the community.

Foster Care Coordinator Grant $125,000

The Foster Care Coordinator Grant provides funds for a full-time Foster Coordinator and consultants instrumental to development of the program at the Seattle Animal Shelter. On any given day, on average 100 animals of SAS’ total animal population are in foster homes providing love, compassion, and a much needed break away from the shelter. Through the foster program, thousands of animals have been given a second chance and the program is critical to the shelter’s ability to adopt out as many as 3,000 animals each year.

Shelter Diversion Program $75,000

SAF continues to fund programs and projects that provide owned-pet assistance, shelter animal support, staff and volunteer training, and outreach and engagement activities for the Seattle Animal Shelter. This grant provides assistance to families to better care for their pet and avoid having to relinquish them or risk being cited for insufficient or substandard care. Services include uniformed field outreach to pre-identified areas of need and a free bi-monthly Pet Food Bank staffed by volunteers.

Behavior Program Grant $131,250

Open admission shelters like Seattle Animal Shelter are seeing an increase in animals with behavioral needs entering the shelter system. The Behavior Program increases the likelihood that pets at the Seattle Animal Shelter will be adopted and transition more smoothly into their new homes. The program also helps to better identify animals who might present a risk to staff, volunteers, fosters and adopters, and creates programs to mitigate those outcomes. The SAS Behaviorist coordinates the program overseeing the dog behavior team, monitors the quality of life and capacity for care for in-shelter animals, and monitors and maximizes behavior health and well-being for all SAS animals.

Doney Coe / SNAPS Coalition Grant $20,000

Seattle Animal Foundation is proud to announce its first ever external grant awarded to Doney Coe and the SNAPS coalition to launch a pilot spay/neuter clinic serving pet owners in Seattle who would otherwise go without this vital care. The pilot clinic is the result of collaboration among some of the 25 animal welfare organizations that gathered at the Seattle Animal Foundation’s April 2025 symposium. This program isn’t just about surgeries – it’s about access and compassion.

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Over the Years

Everything we do is to support our vision of a Seattle where every in need animal is treated with dignity.