Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals

Mission: Lost Dog Foundation is based and works in central Virginia, USA, but also does extensive work in areas in the Yucatan of Mexico where problems are rampant with street dog and cat overpopulation, disease and abandonment. LDF raises funds to provide transportation/flight fees to relocate dogs from Mexico to the US and Canada, where they start a new life. LDF also personally escorts many dogs from Mexico to the US that are going to new adoptive homes, or fosters them while searching for forever homes. Funds raised go to assist with flight fees, medical vetting and supplies, food and general care. Lost Dog Foundation is the parent organization for Help Tulum Dogs, a grass-roots rescue operation in Tulum, Mexico and funds all of the rescue efforts and vetting. Lost Dog Foundation focuses on helping those animals in the most dire need and orchestrating their adoption placement into quality forever homes. LDF also helps other rescue groups in Mexico including Tierra de Animales Sanctuary (which LDF founder helped to get established in Cancun), Cause 4 Paws Rescue, Coco's Animal Welfare, and Isla Animals. . . LDF truly believes that rescues should help each other and assists whenever possible in donating critical funds or helping to transport dogs for adoption to the US and Canada. LDF works in the US to help dogs be transported along the East Coast (United States) from high kill shelters to rescues and foster homes that can give them new lives. Each weekend, volunteers transport dogs to safety and to adopters. LDF works locally in Richmond to help dogs in critical need through rescuing and fostering, and also by donating for spay/neuter and vaccinations. LDF partners with other local rescue organizations in community outreach, helping dogs who are chained on properties, and helps sponsor vaccine clinics in the Richmond area. LDF works in the Richmond area to TNR feral cat populations also, and has trapped and spayed/neutered hundreds of homeless cats. In this process, over a hundred kittens each year are rescued, rehabilitated and adopted to great homes. Lost Dog Foundation is a 501(c)3 charity and all donations for donors in the US are 100% tax deductible.

Target demographics: animals in critical need, rescue and adoption

Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 1200 dogs and cats

Geographic areas served: Riviera Maya, Tulum, Mexico and Richmond, VA USA

Programs: spay and neuter campaigns, rescue, rehabilitation, adoption of rescued animals, spay and neuter of feral animal populations