Donations and Statistics

MPP 2024 Adoption STATS and 2023 financial reporting

CASH IS KING

Do you ever feel like the more you make the more you spend?  Gah.  That’s the case here on the daily with MPP.  I know you know – because we’re constantly asking for money.  But hey, that’s the life of a non-profit rescue.  Speaking of, please send us some money.  (sorry, had to ask).

I’d like to share MPP’s 2023 numbers with everyone.  I know, I know, it’s October of 2024 – almost time to do this whole accounting thing AGAIN. But damn, we like to be transparent, even if we are late.  We will also update our website at least annually with these figures under the Donations & Statistics Tab.

The money it takes to save these velvet hippos is truly staggering, but together we are DOING IT!  Another year has gone by and our velvet hippo pittie community has helped us RAISE a whopping $250,016 in 2023; $48,000 more than last year!  So far we’ve rescued 157 pitties in 2024 – on track to be another record year.  We are overwhelmed with gratitude.

2023 RECAP of CASH

$77,222 Spent on veterinary care

$55,235 Spent on Foster support (reimbursements for food, supplies, etc)

$52,946 Spent on doggie transport

$64,613 on other expenses like admin, subscriptions, and professional services (accounting, taxes, and program support, training) and other dog-related services not specifically included in the above categories).

Our year-end balance was ($15,633), which left us with a busted can of biscuits heading into 2024.

Stats since we started:

774 pitties rescued since late 2020 to present - we usually have 40-50 dogs at any given time in foster and ready for placement in their forever homes.

3 transferred to other rescues.

9 doggies didn’t make it; though we tried our best.  Tracking the ones that don’t make it is hard.  For MPP, we are so committed to the success of every dog that losing even one is gut-wrenching. We’ve lost most for medical reasons, but rarely there are circumstances where euthanasia is appropriate.  These are heartbreaking decisions that we don’t take lightly, and it’s always the last resort in behavioral cases, and a compassionate choice in medical cases.

16 Average number of dogs pulled per month over four years; The most dogs adopted in one month is 33 souls saved in November; by contrast our highest number of adoptions in 2024 was 29 back in August.   Apparently we have a hard time saying no, as those are high numbers!

So far in 2024 we have placed 157 good dogs in great forever homes.

Our six Directors, myself included, our FOSTER Mommas, our AMAZING VOLUNTEERS, all have full-time jobs and families and hobbies we desperately try to balance with the day-to-day demands of the rescue.  It is hard.  We are not perfect – sometimes we drop the ball – sometimes we aren’t or can’t be available at the drop of a hat; but every single one of us are committed to doing what is right for the benefit of the pitties we love more than anything.  The obstacles we face simply rescuing dogs are sometimes large – sometimes heartbreaking – and sometimes downright shitty, but we persist.  However, most of the time it is BEAUTIFUL.  When you hold a rescue dog and feel tense muscles relax, ears flatten, and chubby little bodies soften as they melt into your safe and loving arms, when they stare at you and let you softly rub their head and scratch their ears they KNOW they are safe.  It brings us to happy tears.  THEY KNOW.   Thank you for persisting alongside us in this fight to SAVE ALL THE PITTIES!  Now, about that donation!