PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday it has awarded $481,000 in grants to 26 local animal-welfare programs organized by nonprofits and municipalities.
The foundation said the funds will support several services offered by the programs, including low-cost veterinary care for pets within low-income households, animal adoption preparation and wildlife rehabilitation.
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Adrian Bonéy, who oversees the foundation’s Program for Animal Welfare, said in a statement Monday that the generosity from donors and the foundation’s grantee partners is expanding humane education, increasing care options for shelter animals and pets owned by low-income households, and improving the quality of animal care in Rhode Island.
The grants ranged between $2,500 and $40,000, with some organizations receiving multiple grants, the foundation said. The organizations and municipalities that received funding from the foundation are:
- Animal Rescue Rhode Island
- Audubon Society of Rhode Island
- East Greenwich Animal Protection League
- Foster Parrots
- Friends of Animals in Need
- Friends of Central Falls Animals
- Friends of the Scituate Animal Shelter
- North Kingstown Animal Protection League
- PAAWS RI
- PawsWatch
- Potter League for Animals
- Providence Animal Rescue League
- Rhode Island Companion Animal Alliance
- Rhode Island Parrot Rescue
- Rhode Island Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Rhode Island Veterinary Medical Association Companion Animal Foundation
- Roger Williams Park Zoo
- Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue
- Sea Research Foundation (Mystic Aquarium)
- Stand Up for Animals
- Ten Lives Cat Rescue
- Town of Cumberland
- Town of North Providence
- Town of Westerly
- West Place Animal Sanctuary
- Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island
