Who We Are

Animal Grantmakers began in 1999 as a voluntary association of foundations and organizations that provide grants to benefit animals. Our growing membership includes more than 20 foundations and grantmaking organizations located in the United States and Mexico.

Funding interests of current members of Animal Grantmakers cover the entire spectrum of animal species and issue areas, including companion animals, captive and free-ranging wildlife, farmed animals and animals used in research. Animal Grantmakers includes funders with animal-protection, welfare and rights perspectives. Our members support animal shelters and sanctuaries, spay/neuter clinics and other forms of animal population control, humane education, wildlife protection and injured animal rehabilitation, alternatives to factory farming, improved status for great apes, minimization of pain and suffering to laboratory animals, and many other fields of interest.

Animal Grantmakers is led by a Coordinating Committee elected by members at the Annual Meeting. The current Coordinating Committee consists of:

President

Kirvil Skinnarland
Maria Norbury Foundation
kirvil@mnfdn.org

Vice President

Scott Cullen
New Tamarind Foundation
scullen@gracelinks.org

Treasurer

Dennis Ryan
D.A.S. Charitable Fund
dennisryan@dasfund.org

Secretary

Wendy Haugen
Foundation for the Protection of Animals
whaugen@protectionofanimals.org

Membership and Outreach

Alicia Falsetto
Leonard X. Bosack & Bette M. Kruger
Charitable Foundation
foundationbk@gmail.com

Peggy Burks
Thelma Doelger Trust for Animals
peggyburks@gmail.com

Michael Fleming
David Bohnett Foundation
michael.fleming@yahoo.com