⭐ Make a Year-End Gift to CARE STL: Give Hope, Save Lives, and Make a Lasting Impact

As 2025 comes to a close, animals across St. Louis are still relying on CARE STL for warmth, safety, medical care, and a second chance. Even in these final days of the year, pets are arriving at our doors cold, injured, abandoned, or simply out of time.

Your year-end gift ensures that every animal who needs help receives it — no matter how they arrive or what they’ve been through.
And by giving before December 31, you can also take advantage of meaningful tax benefits. It’s truly a win-win: you save lives while maximizing your impact.

💙 Tax-Savvy Ways to Give Before December 31

Cash Donations
Every dollar is tax-deductible and goes straight to lifesaving work — medical care, warm shelter, enrichment, behavior support, and adoption programs. Your gift provides immediate relief to animals in our care.

Stock Donations
Donating appreciated assets allows you to skip capital gains tax while making a powerful gift that sustains our rescue efforts and supports animals with urgent needs.

Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs)
If you’re 70½ or older, giving directly from your IRA can reduce your taxable income and make a significant difference for homeless pets.

Employer Matching Gifts
Many companies offer matching programs that can double or even triple your donation. A quick check with your HR department can instantly multiply your impact.

🐾 Why Your Gift Matters So Much Right Now

Winter is one of the toughest seasons for animals in St. Louis. At a time when intake increases and medical emergencies rise, we are also navigating overcrowding, crate overflow, and upcoming mandatory building renovations. Through it all, we refuse to turn our backs on the animals who need us most.

Your generosity fuels:

Urgent medical care for injured, sick, and abused animals
Safe shelter and warm bedding during freezing temperatures
Daily enrichment, behavior support, and foster placement
Lifesaver dog programming during critical deadlines
Reunification for lost pets and loving homes for adoptable animals

Your gift gives second chances, fresh starts, and New Year’s miracles.

✨ Give Before Midnight on December 31

Your tax-deductible donation today helps us finish 2025 strong — and step into 2026 ready to save even more lives.

No animal should end the year cold, scared, or alone.
Your kindness changes that.

💙 Make your year-end gift today:
https://givebutter.com/EOYGIFT2025

Thank you for being a vital part of our lifesaving mission.
Here’s to a hopeful, compassionate, and joy-filled 2026 for every animal we serve.

End of Year Giving 2025

By CENTER FOR ANIMAL RESCUE & ENRICHMENT OF ST LOUIS (CARE STL)

End of Year Giving 2025

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