As we reflect on what we’re grateful for in 2025, the team at the San Francisco SPCA is grateful for you. Your compassion helped us take major steps toward Vision 2030—our plan to expand access to veterinary care, reduce shelter overcrowding, and improve the lives of 8 million animals by the end of the decade.
None of this would be possible without the adopters, volunteers, veterinary care clients, and donors who show up for pets and their families every single day. Below is just a small glimpse of the impact our community made this year.
Adopters opened their hearts and homes
In fiscal year 2025, 4,294 animals found loving homes at the SF SPCA Adoption Center. Our adopters showed up in extraordinary ways, including on two record-breaking days. On California Adopt-a-Pet Day, 140 animals went home, setting an all-time single-day adoption record…until a few months later, when 161 adoptions took place during our Clear the Shelters event.
Thank you for choosing the SF SPCA and for welcoming your new companions into your families. It is our greatest joy to share the excitement of adoption day and see pets thrive in their new homes.
Volunteers lifted up our mission
1,183 volunteers donated an incredible 86,065 hours to care for animals and support our local community. Our volunteers performed essential tasks, such as walking dogs, socializing cats, helping with medical care and adoptions, and staffing mobile vaccine clinics that provided preventative care to 5,985 pets throughout San Francisco.
Our 199 foster volunteers opened their homes to 1,124 animals. And yes, we absolutely celebrate “foster fails” like Boba Fetch, whose incredible personality convinced his foster to adopt him, giving him the loving home he deserved.
Our Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) volunteers also made an extraordinary impact this year. 171 AAT volunteers reached 59,590 people in our local community. Through programs like the Wag Brigade at SFO, Puppy Dog Tales in classrooms and libraries, and therapy visits in hospitals and senior homes, these volunteers brought the healing power of the human-animal bond to our city.
Spay/neuter clients strengthened our community
This year, our team spayed/neutered 5,212 pets at our public Spay/Neuter Clinic, 2,567 community and free-roaming cats with the support of our Community Cats volunteers, and 17,640 dogs and cats in the Central Valley.
Thank you to our clients for choosing to be responsible pet owners. Spay/neuter surgery is one of the most effective ways to reduce overcrowding in shelters. Your commitment to preventing overpopulation is helping shape a more humane future for animals across California.
Veterinary clients trusted us with their pets’ care
Every time you walk through our doors, you place your trust in our experienced team of veterinarians, technicians, and staff. This year, our Mission Hospital provided 25,509 exams, and our Community Veterinary Clinic treated 11,328 cats and dogs.
Together with our community partners, we are expanding access to high-quality, compassionate care so every pet in San Francisco can thrive. Thank you for being part of this shared effort to build a healthier city for pets and the people who love them.
Donors funded our future
Behind every adoption, every clinic visit, every lifesaving surgery, and every second chance is someone like you—someone who believes that pets and people deserve care, dignity, and compassion. With your support, we provided more than $5.2 million in free and reduced-cost veterinary care to the San Francisco community.
Your generosity fuels every one of our programs. From all of us at the San Francisco SPCA: thank you. Your compassion is the heart of our mission, and we’re so grateful to be on this journey with you.
Explore even more successes and metrics by reading our 2025 Impact Report.