Shelter Friends, Inc., is a shelter-assistance group that helps find rescues or homes for shelter or abandoned animals from the eastern part of MO, the western part of IL, or anywhere in the Midwest. We work directly with shelters and owners to help place as many animals as we can in no-kill rescue groups and to aid in their adoptions. We also raise money to pay for ordinary vetting costs or any extraordinary veterinary care of these animals. We also help trap missing or stray cats and dogs and help them get to their appropriate shelters and pay for their ordinary vetting or extraordinary veterinary costs. This helps our rescue group partners by cutting down on their costs and helping them take in more animals.
In August of 2014 we instituted our barn-cat program and in August of 2015 we were successful in getting a TNR ordinance passed in the city of St. Charles, allowing more feral cats to be saved.
In 2023, we spent over $150,000 saving animals in and around the Midwest!
It is our goal for 2024 to save even more animals!
Shelter Friends is run strictly by volunteers. Our administrative costs are less than 2%. That means that for every dollar donated over 98 cents goes directly to the animals!
Shelter Friends, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to promote the health and welfare of homeless animals in the Midwest. We are not a rescue group; we are a fundraising/networking group who pays vet bills for any animal who needs it and who works directly with shelters or abandoned animals in order to help them find rescue or adoption. We also do hands-on rescues of any animals that needs it.
Organization name
Shelter Friends
Tax id (EIN)
46-2114407
Mission/Purpose
Animal, Animal - Rescues & Shelters
Operating Budget
Micro: $50,001 - $250,000
Service Area
St Charles County
Audiences Served
General Public
Address
512 Leaning Woods St.