Open Sanctuary Project Inc

The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always growing digital guide for any resources or information you need in order to responsibly create and successfully manage an animal sanctuary or to provide the best possible care to animals in order to help them live long, healthy, happy lives free of exploitation.

All of our resources are researched and responsibly crafted with the intention of promoting compassionate care standards and practices for animals in need of help and sanctuary, while identifying and discouraging practices that are exploitative or harmful to the individual.

• Founded as an independent organization in 2018, The Open Sanctuary Project is a freely accessible, always-growing digital library that includes over 800 responsibly researched resources for anyone interested in compassionate long-term care of farmed animals, effective community education, advocacy practices, and sustainable management practices of animal-based organizations. 
• The Open Sanctuary Project’s staff is a small and lean team of five individuals with accumulated decades of experience in animal rescue, direct caregiving, education, narrative-sharing, law, and nonprofit governance. Our staff is the heart and soul of all our programming. 
• The Open Sanctuary Project operates on a small annual budget of approximately $415,000. 89.9% of this budget goes directly into programming expenses, with a mere 10.1% going to administrative and fundraising costs. 
• In 2023 alone, over half a million individual users from every country on Earth accessed The Open Sanctuary Project’s resource library. 
• The Open Sanctuary Project’s resources includes downloadable templates and resources for use in resident recordkeeping, governance purposes, sanctuary education lesson plans, and even more. As of 2024, our audience has downloaded these kinds of resources over 5,400 times.
• As of 2024, over 1,100 sanctuaries, rescues, and animal advocacy organizations, located in at least 43 different countries, utilize our resources. 
• We are a 501(c)(3) public charity, with a Gold Transparency rating from Guidestar/Candid, and a Four Star rating (the highest available) from Charity Navigator.