MICHELSON PHILANTHROPIES
Animal Welfare Michelson Found Animals Foundation (MFA) believes people and pets are better together. For 15 years, MFA has operated a range of social enterprises, impact investments, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership initiatives that share a common goal: Champion pets at every point they intersect with our society.
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2021 IMPACT REPORT
Since its founding, MFA has committed more than $100 million to support its mission, beginning with a grant program that provided free microchips to local municipal shelter partners. Today, affordable chips and scanners are available across the country for shelters and rescue groups to purchase through Michelson Found Animals Registry. MFA also has been instrumental in advancing animal welfare in Los Angeles. In addition to funding, in-kind, and operational support, MFA helped create the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles, FixNation, and Spay4LA. Thanks in part to this, the live release rate in municipal animal shelters in the city of Los Angeles has risen to nearly 90 percent. “Today we’re at a point where almost all the dogs that come into these animal shelters get adopted out,” Dr. Gary K. Michelson observes. “In that sense, we are putting ourselves out of business.”
