Compassion Animal Project

To harness the power of Compassion to help create a world where no pet owner ever has to let finances be a determining factor in the health or well being of their pets. To help grow and educate a community that wants to support like minded goals.

Keeping families together. It sounds so simple. The best of pet owners can come upon a situation where they may be faced with an untenable choice where they can't afford the emergency/medical/surgical care of a beloved family member. We are committed to the idea that finances should not be a determining factor in the health and well being of our four legged family members. No one should be placed in the position of having to choose economic euthanasia when a favorable outcome is available. To that end we are dedicated to providing grants to those families/pet owners that need assistance in their time of need to save their pet and keep their family together.
Compassion is sympathy coupled with an urgent desire to aid. It is not an emotion alone but inherently coupled with action.

Our primary program provides financial assistance to families whose pets need emergency, critical, or specialized veterinary care.

Our short term outcomes include:
- Improve access to educational and financial resources to communities
- Improve access to educational and financial resources to communities
- Improve individual knowledge of veterinary care costs, our program, and resources available (e.g., pet insurance, crowdfunding, other nonprofit programs, etc.)
- Reduce monetary/nonmonetary (emotional impact) costs of families
- Reduce emotional and mental impact on veterinary professionals
- Collect national data using data and evaluation best practices
- Provide food for pets and families in communities across the U.S.


We anticipate our long term impact will be:
- Provide partner opportunities for local initiatives and establish a nationwide network of resources and education
- Improve pet health outcomes and reduce economic euthanasia
- Improve economic conditions and well-being in communities we serve
- Reduce suicide rates of veterinarians by reducing compassion fatigue
- Improve data collection relevant to economic euthanasia
- Improve pet food security in communities to meet demand quickly and reduce depletion of local resources

To measure and evaluate our progress, we use the following metrics:
-# of pet owners applying for assistance
- # of attendees at CAP hosted events
- % of read rate for resources provided online and in email
- # of grants provided to applicants
- average amount of funding provided to applicants
- % of pets surviving veterinary intervention
- Survey metrics measuring pet livelihood, financial health of families, emotional health of applicant
- Survey metrics measuring job satisfaction, emotional health of respondent, and retention rates of veterinarians and support staff
- % of survey responses
- # of unique cities applicants live
- # of unique conditions funded
- % of pet type funded
- % of pet age ranges funded
- Lbs. of food provided
- # of pets supported at pop-up pantries
- # of families and organizations supported at pop-up pantries

Through the many years of experience of our Founder and Board Members steeped in Referral Based Veterinary Medicine and Business we have the necessary professional contacts as well as business acumen to make an idealistic initiative such as this not only succeed but thrive. In addition, to better our impact on communities, we regularly communicate with our veterinary partners informally and establish formal check-ins to discuss trends and facilitate conversations to improve service delivery.

Also, CAP collaborated with researchers from the University of Tennessee’s Program for Pet Equity to create our post-treatment survey. We aim to use this data to improve our program and understand the relationship between financial assistance and pet-health outcomes, impact to veterinary-professional compassion fatigue and retention, and financial and emotional impact to individuals/families. Surveys for pet parents are conducted within 2-4 weeks post-treatment and again one-year post treatment. Vet partners are assessed twice each year.

Since our first service recipient in May of 2022, we have supported over 100 pets and their families to ensure they received the veterinary care they needed. In addition, we've provided tens of thousands of pounds of food to families in four communities in the U.S., including: Los Angeles, CA, Richmond, VA, Sarasota, FL, and Rock Hill, SC. We have also established partnerships with over 80 hospitals across more than 20 states.