Colville Valley Animal Sanctuary

“Janet west matthew west treasurer president spouse jennifer pelton lance pelton secretary vice pres. Spouse”

“An outside accounting firm prepares the 990. The 990 is then provided to the board president who presents at one of the monthly board meetings. Once approved by the board of directors, the president signs form 8879-te and returns the form to the accounting firm for electronic filing.”

“Upon request, the organization will provide a copy of the 990 to requestor.”

“The colville valley animal sanctuary (cvas) is driven to inspire the public through transforming the lives of companion animals in need. In addition, cvas provides, rescue, rehabilitation, medical care, spay/neuter, and adoption services for surrendered homeless and abandoned companion animals.”

“Volunteers, including working board, perform services including cleaning and feeding of animals,socializing of animals, laundry, data entry, grant writing and reporting, outreach/fundraising events, animal transport, facilities maintenance.”

“Cvas is a safe place for animal surrenders, adoptions, volunteering, senior saving-senior program, community engagement,and fundraising both on-site and virtual means. We have seen a decrease in our general donations, and an increase in adoption fees over the prior year. Special online fundraising campaigns in 2024 raised money for animal medical needs and spay-neuter surgery. During 2024, we took in 492 cats and 107 dogs. This is slightly less than the year before. There are still hundreds on the cvas waiting lists for surrender for both dogs and cats. While cvas is rural, in larger cities they can have this number of animals in a quater, or a month or week, but for 2024 cvas in rural stevens county 405 were adopted, 44 were transfered to larger shelters where they were adopted (in 2023 we were able to transfer 188 animals). We had 101 animals where support people trapped animals of a feral colony for spay or neuter and were returned or were part of our barn cat program.”

“In 2024 the cvas food bank, funded by donations from stores and community members, was in greater need. We served 110 families, up from 81 the year before. This helped 252 dogs and 307 cats stay with their families rather than be surrendered or dumped. This trend is up each year. We are ecstatic that the community rallies each week we post a picture of an empty food bank, and we have been able to continue this service. In addition, our drive-thru vaccination clinics provided 419 rabies vaccines to both cats and dogs, as well as other core vaccines, and 125 animals were microchipped so they could more easily be reunited with their owners when they become lost.”