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Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare

Accepts applications Pleasant Valley, New York · EIN 456599680

Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare is a private foundation in Pleasant Valley, New York. In tax year 2025 it gave $51,000 in 11 grants; the typical grant was $3,500 and the largest $20,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was up from $42,500 the year before.

36% of its 2025 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a mix of repeat and new grantees.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2023$42,5009$1.0 million
2024$42,5008$1.2 million
2025$51,00011$1.3 million

How to apply

ContactAllan B Rappleyea Trustee
1733 Main St, Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
Phone or email(845) 454-1110
What to submitTrustee determines whether to invite a full proposal from an initial letter of inquiry. Those invited to offer a full proposal must follow proposal format and include goals, strategies, time lines, anticipated outcomes, background of applying organization, budgets for both applied funds and organization, information on other sources of financial support, financial statements, IRS certification of exempt status, and other information.
DeadlinesInquiry letters may be submitted at any time. Full proposals are due by march 1 or september 1.
RestrictionsCharities seeking grants must be operated for the purpose of serving animal welfare and activities which may lead to a better quality of life for animals.

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare funds

Where it gives

All of its grants went to recipients in New York.

StateGrantsAmount
New York11$51,000

Grants paid in 2025

All 11 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Millbrook School - Trevor Zoo
Millbrook, NY
To foster development of an appreciation for wildlife and conservation ethic through direct contact with living animals.$20,000
Stray Help Inc
Fishkill, NY
To help you help the community cats you care about. Through our trap-neuter-return/place, cat adoption, cat and kitten fostering, and humane education programs, we are able to improve the lives of both cats and people in the dutchess county area of the hudson valley, new york.$5,000
Cat Wranglers of Claverack
Claverack, NY
To rescue and care of stray and abandoned cats and kittens, providing medical care in sanctuary$3,500
Pant - Partnership of Animals Needing Transition
Salt Point, NY
To reduce the feral and abandoned cat population in the rhinebeck area.$3,500
Takoda Service Dogs Inc
Wallkill, NY
To train and place service dogs with veterans and first responders suffering with ptsd.$3,500
Two by Two Animal Haven Inc
Billings, NY
To educate the public about animals, their welfare and conservation.$3,500
Animalkind
Hudson, NY
To strengthen the natural bond between humans and animals with programs and services to enhance the well-being of all.$2,500
Happy Farm Animal Rescue
New York, NY
To rescue farmed animals and provide them with lifelong care and sanctuary.$2,500
Safe Haven Animal Shelter & Wildlife Centers
Hopewell Junction, NY
To construct the safe haven animal shelter & wildlife center, a no-kill animal shelter/rehab facility in town of beekman, stormville, new york.$2,500
A New Chance Animal Rescue
Bedford Hills, NY
To support the organization's efforts in the rescue, foster home management, and adoption of dogs across 9 states.$2,500
Compassionate Animal Rescue Efforts of Dutchess Cnty
Wappingers Falls, NY
To protect the welfare of animals and to promote the humane treatment and well being of our dogs, cats and other critters.$2,000

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications, with this on deadlines: Inquiry letters may be submitted at any time. Full proposals are due by march 1 or september 1.

How much does Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare give?

$51,000 in tax year 2025, across 11 grants, with a typical grant of $3,500.

Who runs Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare?

Its 2025 filing lists Allan B Rappleyea Esq (Trustee).

What does Susanne P Boyd and Darrel Boyd Foundation for Animal Welfare fund?

Based on its grants, mainly animals, education and environment and conservation.

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