The Elmina B. Sewall Foundation is requesting applications for its Animal Welfare Grants to support health and well-being of animals, people and environment are inextricably linked.
Donor Name: Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
A just, healthy, and sustainable Maine requires that all life is recognized for its inherent value. They will fund organizations working to reduce barriers to equitable pet ownership, keep pets with their owners, and humanely control pet populations. The focus of this funding is on cats and dogs.
Priorities
- The focus is on supporting organizations and efforts that are working on at least one of the following:
- Provide humane sheltering and rehoming services primarily for cats and dogs (animal shelters)
- Provide supports to keep pets with their owners (animal shelters or social service agencies)
- Provide access to affordable veterinary care
- Advocacy and field building
- Humanely controlling pet population
- Foundation will prioritize organizations that:
- Are under-resourced and serve under-resourced communities
- Provide (or seek to) community supports designed to keep animals in homes and out of shelters (e.g. access to affordable neutering services, pet food pantries, veterinary assistance programs, training and humane-education, crisis management assistance such as temporary sheltering)
- Work collaboratively to meet animal and community needs.
Funding Information
2025 available funding: $1,515,000.
Generally, grant funding levels in this program area are:
- Animal Shelters: $10,000 to $50,000 per year
- 1–3-year proposals will be considered
- Field Building $25,000 to $75,000 per year
- 1–5-year proposals will be considered
- Social Services: $10,000 to $50,000 per year
- 1–3-year proposals will be considered
- Pet Population Control: $10,000 to $50,000 per year
- 1–3-year proposals will be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be eligible to receive tax-deductible donations as outlined in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. This includes: 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt organizations; public schools; public agencies working for the State of Maine; Indian tribal governments (and their political subdivisions) recognized by the Department of the Interior
- The Sewall Foundation accepts applications from organizations and groups who work through a fiscal sponsor. A fiscally sponsored organization does not need to be a legal entity, but it must have a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement with a 501c3 nonprofit organization. If you are an organization that is fiscally sponsored, please answer the application questions as they pertain to the applicant organization or collaborative, not the fiscal sponsor.
- The Sewall Foundation has funded 501(C)(4) organizations in the past for specific nonpartisan and charitable work, however it requires additional considerations and expenditure responsibility. They ask that any 501(c)(4) organization contact program staff to explore potential grant support. Organizations with 501(C)(4) status should not start or submit a grant application before speaking with program staff.
- The Sewall Foundation does not provide grant funding to private for-profit enterprises, cooperatives, or individuals.
- Eligible organizations may apply regardless of their funding history with Sewall Foundation.
For more information, visit EBSF.
