Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust Grant Program

The Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust invites proposals for projects to advance the quality of life for owned, homeless, or wild animals or to address root causes of animal cruelty and neglect.

Donor Name: Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust

State: Selected States

County: Selected Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/15/2022

Grant Size: $10,000 and $50,000

Grant Duration: 1 year

Details:

The following activities are illustrative of the types of supported projects:

Animal Adoption, Behavior Training, and Fostering projects to increase the number and percentage of successful adoptions from shelters or rescue groups, or other non-capital means of expanding shelter capacity.
Continuing Education & Training for agency staff or volunteers, to improve the delivery of care (generally in a multi-agency conference or training format), and initiatives to improve and diversify recruitment and retention of volunteers and staff.
Humane & Wildlife Education in schools and other community settings, particularly with under-resourced or culturally isolated youth, or adult educational campaigns, such as re: keeping cats safely indoors, getting pets ID’ed and vaccinated, or co-existing with urban-suburban native wildlife.
Medical, Rehabilitation, and Wellness Care for Animals, as in initiating the practice of shelter medicine or wildlife medicine at animal shelters or nature centers, improving access to affordable veterinary care for owned companion animals in under-resourced urban/rural areas, or giving special attention to pets of socially vulnerable populations — lower-income households, domestic violence victims, senior citizens — or to retirees from racing or other careers.
Pet & Feral Animal Population Control through Spay/Neuter programs targeting assistance based on need, generally for owned pets of lower or fixed-income households, for incentive programs encouraging adoptions from public shelters, to help shelters implement a spay/neuter-before-adoption policy, or humanely control numbers of free-roaming community cats or dogs.
Equipment directly benefiting homeless or injured animals (matching funds may be required for amounts over $10,000).
Information Technology upgrades ($5,000 maximum, limit of one request in 5 years).
Other Animal Care Initiatives, such as disaster and emergency planning, preparedness, and response training; special enforcement expenses associated with patterns of animal cruelty in hoarding cases, puppy mill seizures, and dogfighting; projects that celebrate the human-animal bond with companion animals; or wildlife protection focused on native species typical of the Ohio and Great Lakes region, especially involving challenges at the interface between human civilization and the lives of wild creatures.

Funding Information

One-year grants between $10,000 and $50,000.
Larger amounts or multi-year grants may be considered, particularly for projects of scale or multi-agency collaborative proposals.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible Organizations:
- Humane societies, animal welfare or animal protection groups, nonprofit spay/neuter clinics, wildlife rehabilitation, and nature centers, sanctuaries, museums, zoos and aquariums, educational institutions, or other state or community organizations dedicated to the well-being of animals in our region.
- Organizations in Ohio and portions of the other seven states in the Great Lakes watershed (including IL, IN, MI, WI, Western PA, Upstate NY, and Northeastern MN), reflecting the origin of Mr. Scott’s assets. The Trust will not consider unsolicited requests from organizations based in other parts of the country, or fund activities taking place outside the USA.
- Preferred initiatives are metropolitan, multi-county, statewide, or regional or involve collaborations among multiple agencies. Requests from small organizations with localized impact are less likely to be funded.
Eligible Organizations must:
- Be incorporated and nonprofit, with Federal IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
  Provide evidence of proper financial stewardship and an absence of conflicts of interest involving board members or staff.
- Have 100% governing board member participation in annual monetary giving. They also take note of aggregate and average board member gifts in relation to overall group resources. Organizations that do not have 100% board participation in annual monetary giving should not apply.
- Show that project expenses are clearly justifiable as benefitting animals in need.
- Only request amounts that are reasonable in proportion to an organization’s overall annual budget.
- Pursue a high quality of life for individual animals and improve the situation of significant numbers of animals.
- Deliver outstanding humane care, in facilities that meet or exceed accepted health and safety standards
- Have written policies on adoption procedures, on spaying/neutering companion animals leaving the agency, and on conditions for display or release of wildlife, and keep accurate records on intake and disposition of all animals.
- Have existing resources for “basic” animal sheltering, rescue, and care activities from sustainable sources within their own communities. Shelters and rescue groups will already have the means to spay/neuter animals they take under care, using funds raised from other sources (e.g. adoption fees).