Celebrate 25 Years of Rescue with Red Door!
For 25 years, Red Door Animal Shelter has been rescuing rabbits, cats, dogs, and ducks — and now we’re celebrating this milestone with our biggest fundraiser yet. Our goal: raise $50,000 to help even more animals in need.

Here’s how you can help:
Create your own fundraising page and invite friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors to donate. Every dollar supports rescue, care, and adoption for the animals who need us most.

🎁 Donor perks:

Donate $40 or more to receive a limited-edition T-shirt and swag bag (pick up at the shelter).
Donate $50 or more and we’ll mail your shirt and swag to you.

🎉 Top 7 fundraisers win prizes — and everyone gets the reward of knowing they made a real difference.

Sponsored by Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital and Chalet Nursery.

Join us in celebrating 25 years of compassion — and help ensure many more to come!

It's simple and easy:

Here are some of the animals you will be helping:

Red Door Animal Shelter is a non-profit, no-kill shelter committed to helping animals in need. Our primary focus is on cats, dogs and rabbits – the three most popular pets in the United States. We also rescue the occasional stray pet duck or backyard chicken.

We provide a cageless environment for the animals, giving them the closest-to-a-home experience that a shelter can provide. While our emphasis is on re-homing the animals through resourceful adoption programs, the shelter does offer permanent residence for those few animals not placed in homes. We created the premiere, extensive rabbit rescue program in the Chicago area and today we remain one of the few no-kill, multi-species shelters in the country that admits rabbits, spays/neuters them, microchips them and adopts them.

Red Door is a 501(c)3 organization; our Federal tax ID number is 36-4248178. We receive no federal, state, county or city funds. We are funded almost exclusively by private donations from the public; sometimes, we receive one or two small grants a year.

Gimme Shelter! 2025

A summer FUNdraiser for the Animals

Team Members