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Our impact
Helping shelter dogs get seen — measured honestly.
Every Dog's Chance is an initiative of Lily’s Second Chance, a Tennessee nonprofit corporation, with one job: making sure adoptable shelter dogs get noticed.
Here is what that looks like right now, drawn straight from our live listings.
Our impact in numbers
Listings last refreshed on October 12, 2026 at 1:50 AM EDT. Numbers update automatically as shelters add and adopt out dogs.
Coverage note: These figures reflect only the shelters and rescues we currently crawl with at least one adoptable dog listed today — not a national count. A shelter or rescue with zero current adoptable dogs isn’t counted, even if we still crawl it. Likewise, the states shown are only states where a currently-crawled source has an adoptable dog listed today; not every U.S. state has a participating source, and this is not a census of all adoptable dogs in the country.
What we do
Visibility for dogs waiting in shelters
Great dogs are easy to miss when they’re one listing among thousands. We work to change that.
We gather
We pull adoptable dogs from shelter and rescue sources across the country into one searchable place, so a great dog isn’t hidden on a page no one visits.
We surface
People can search by name, state, and breed, and every listing links straight back to the shelter or rescue that cares for the dog — we never stand between an adopter and a shelter.
We share
Adoptable dogs are surfaced publicly across searches, alerts, and features that keep them in front of people who may be ready to adopt.
We support
We gather care resources for adopters and offer limited assistance for dogs when an approved program, funds, and partners are available — never a guarantee for any individual dog.
How we measure impact honestly
We only report numbers we can stand behind. The figures above are counted live from the same catalog you browse, using the exact rule that decides which dogs are adoptable — so a dog that has been adopted or whose listing has closed drops out of the count automatically. We don’t publish lifetime totals, projected reach, or “dogs saved” figures we can’t verify, because Every Dog's Chance does not rehome dogs directly and taking credit for another organization’s adoption wouldn’t be honest.
If a metric can’t be sourced from real data, we leave it off this page rather than estimate it. That is the same standard we hold for every claim on the site.
Every Dog's Chance is an initiative of a Tennessee nonprofit corporation and an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) private foundation (EIN 42-3599446). Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. See our Donation Policy.
Our impact — frequently asked questions
Where do these numbers come from?
Every figure on this page is pulled live from the same catalog the rest of the site uses. We only count dogs that are currently listed as adoptable, so the numbers reflect what you actually see when you browse — not lifetime or projected totals.
Do you take credit for adoptions?
No. Every Dog’s Chance is not a shelter and we don’t rehome dogs ourselves. Every adoption happens through the shelter or rescue that cares for the dog. Our role is visibility: helping more people see and share dogs who are waiting.
How current is this data?
Listings are refreshed automatically on a recurring schedule. When a dog is adopted or a listing closes, it drops out of our adoptable counts on the next refresh, so these numbers stay honest rather than inflated.
Who runs Every Dog’s Chance?
Every Dog’s Chance is an initiative of Lily’s Second Chance, a Tennessee nonprofit corporation and an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) private foundation (EIN 42-3599446). Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. See our Donation Policy page for full details.
Help a shelter dog get seen today.
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