Making a gift of appreciated stock helps our animals and can help you avoid capital gains taxes. Please ask your financial professional for advice.

Stock transfer instructions:

Contact: The Burish Group, Earl Bischoff (608) 821-3717 or Anne Hughey (608) 831-4280
Account Name: Dane County Humane Society
Brokerage Firm: UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Account #: HZ38937
DTC#: 0221
Federal ID# (EIN): 39-0806335

Please contact Amy Good at (608) 838-0413 ext. 129 or agood@giveshelter.org with any questions or to notify us when a transfer has been made. We do not always received the donor's information with transfers and want to be sure to thank you for your gift!

Supporting DCHS at work can be easy through employer giving options!

Matching Gifts

Did you know some employers will double or even triple your donation to DCHS? Some of the area's largest employers, including American Family and Alliant Energy match gifts for retirees and employees. Please check with your human resource office and double (or triple!) your impact!

United Way

DCHS participates in the United Way of Dane County's annual workplace campaign as agency #1180. Ask your employer for a pledge form. Maybe we'll even see you for a kick-off rally at your worksite! DCHS can also be written in to out-of-area United Way forms as well.

A donor-advised fund, or DAF, allows you to make charitable contributions as you wish, receive an immediate tax benefit and then recommend grants from the fund over time. Please consult with your financial adviser to see if this may be a good solution for you, especially with recent tax changes related to charitable deductions.

Over 70.5 years old and need to take a required minimum distribution from your traditional IRA? It is simple to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution, or QCD, as a direct transfer from your IRA to DCHS. A QCD may help you avoid taxes and support DCHS. Just ask you financial adviser for more information and their QCD request form. Our Federal ID# (EIN) is 39-0806335.

Gifts to the DCHS Endowment Fund with the Madison Community Foundation (MCF) last a lifetime and will ensure a permanent income stream for our mission. An endowment is a permanent investment that grows over time. Each year, a portion of each fund can be distributed to our cause. Rather than a one-time gift, an endowment continually generates resources that will be available forever.

Are you a member of Thrivent Financial who’s eligible to direct Choice Dollars? Choice Dollars charitable outreach funds can make a world of difference to our DCHS animals. By directing Choice Dollars, eligible Thrivent members recommend where they feel Thrivent should distribute a portion of its charitable funds. Directing Choice Dollars is easy. Log-on to Thrivent's website to make your allocation or call (800) 847-4836 and say “Thrivent Choice” after the prompt.

Making a charitable donation is a wonderful way to recognize an individual or pet, while showing your compassion for the homeless animals who are still waiting to find loving families.

For more information on the following recognition opportunities, please call Kelsie Matt at (608) 838-0413 ext 164 or email her at kmatt@giveshelter.org.

Gateway Guardian Sponsorship

By sponsoring a dog, cat, or critter living quarter at DCHS for an entire year, each animal looking for a new loving home in your sponsored kennel will benefit from your generous support. Thousands of visitors at DCHS each year will also recognize and appreciate your compassionate support of homeless pets.

A personalized plaque displaying your name, business, or organization and a message of your choice is available for $500 per year. 

Commemorative Brick

Fill our Path of Love and Hope! Purchase a personalized brick featuring your tribute to a loved person or animal. Your brick will be placed in our brick path which provides a walkway on DCHS's grounds. This long-lasting opportunity to honor or remember a loved one supports the lifesaving work of DCHS.

4"x8" brick - donation of $250

8"x8" brick - donation of $500

Brick purchasers will be notified when their brick has been installed and the location of their brick. They are welcome to visit and view their brick whenever most convenient.

Please order your brick here.

Commemorative Benches

Honor a loved one with a custom engraved cement bench. Your bench will be placed on our beautiful campus at the main shelter (5132 Voges Road). 

Engraved cement bench - donation of $5,000

DCHS members play an important role in sustaining critical shelter programs. Member support provides thousands of animals with care and compassion, as well as provides the operational funding that allows us to continue running our core programs and lifesaving services. As a DCHS member, you will improve the lives of animals in our community and your commitment will help us save more lives every year.

Members receive exclusive benefits while supporting the shelter. Membership offers valuable discounts to shelter programs and events, discounts at Madison area businesses and much more!

Become a member

When you shop at smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com, Amazon donates .5% of your eligible purchases to DCHS! Choose DCHS as your charity of choice and start shopping through smile.amazon.com!

Commissions a custom pet portrait from artist Ashley Beech Reid and when you mention Dane County Humane Society she will donate 10% of your purchase!

Get a custom, digital portrait of you beloved pet made by a local artist. $10 from every portrait gets donated to DCHS. For more information visit BuzzCutArt's Facebook page or email them at BuzzCutArt@gmail.com. 

You can help raise money for the animals by collecting your aluminum beverage cans and donating them to DCHS. Bring your cans to DCHS's Main Shelter and our volunteers will take them to be recycled and converted into a donation for the shelter. Over $50,000 has been raised since the beginning of this program and every can helps us care for animals in need. (Please keep tabs on the cans when donating.)

Purchase an Eliza Makes Art Puppy Sticker and a portion of sales will be donated to DCHS! 

It's easy to raise money for DCHS on Facebook! Support animals in need on your birthday, or collect donations for DCHS on your pet's adoption day, #GivingTuesday and more!

Get started at facebook.com/fund/giveshelter!

Play Golden Heart Games online, on a tablet, or on your phone and raise money for DCHS at the same time! Golden Heart Games is a gaming platform that offers classic games that also supports non-profit organizations, like DCHS. 

Order tasty Grounds & Hounds Coffee with the code DaneCHS and receive 15% off your order! They will also donate 10% of your order to help animals in need at DCHS! Use the link below to have the code auto-applied to your order! Cheers! https://groundsandhoundscoffee.com/discount/DaneCHS

Honeybee Cannabis will donate $1 to DCHS for every bottle of Pet Tincture sold.  

Ian's Pizza donates $0.15 per bag of Puppy Chow they sell at their Madison locations to help animals in need at DCHS!!

Keith & Kinsey are a real estate team under Great Rock Realty who help home buyers, sellers, and investors. They donate 10% of all commissions to a charity
of their client’s choice, including DCHS! Donations will be made to DCHS in their client's name. 

North Central Group (NCG) will donate $5 for every pet fee paid at all six area locations!

Donate a 2' x 2' spot in your business for a Dane County Humane Society Candy Vending Machine! 10% of sales for your machine will be donated to help the animals in need at DCHS. There is no cost to you and Sauer Vending takes care of everything - they refill, clean, and service their machines in timely fashion. Sign up your business at Sauervending.com

50% of sales of SciPaws' DCHS bandanas will be donated to help animals in need!

Mention DCHS while ordering a canvas print at the Middleton UPS Store or Shorewood Hills UPS Store and they will donate $5 to help your local homeless animals!

By donating up to 12.5% of revenue from the guest's selection at wine sampling events, Wines for Humanity has been serving the needs of local communities for over a decade. You can host a sampling and make a positive impact at DCHS by contacting Lisa Kromanaker, Wine Advisor, at 608-469-0809 or LisaK.WFH@gmail.com

Zen Dwellings Realty will donate $200 in YOUR name to Dane County Humane Society or Dane County Wildlife Center at time of closing when you buy or sell a home!