The Babinski Foundation

The Babinski Foundation Animal Shelter: Rescue & Restore with Shelter & Love

The Babinski Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that rescues and restores abandoned and stray animals, giving each an opportunity for a new life and a loving home, through adoption and education. With your help, we've rescued over 12,143 animals since our opening in 2016, including 1,401 in 2026 alone.

We need your help more than ever this year. Due to increasing financial and housing hardships in our community, an increased stray population, and rising veterinary costs, our budget is severely strained, and our shelter is overflowing.

Licensed to care for up to 200 animals at a time, we are the largest shelter in the Brainerd Lakes area. We not only take in local surrenders and operate as a stray drop-off location for dogs and cats, but we also partner with rescues on the Leech Lake and Red Lake reservations. Through this outreach, we offer animal shelter, adoption services, and run a mobile clinic providing affordable spay/neuter and vaccination services to underserved areas.

As we expand our efforts into TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) and continue supporting local and national animal welfare, we desperately need your help. Our shelter is in urgent need of new cat housing and funding to sustain our veterinary clinic.

Last year, your incredible support helped us raise nearly $7,300. This year, we’re aiming higher than ever: we need to nearly triple that to raise $20,000 and continue caring for the animals.

Where Your $20,000 Will Go

Your generous gift directly impacts our shelter's ability to care for thousands of dogs and cats annually. Your donation will help us:

• Fund a critical TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) program to control population and promote community health.

• Purchase new cat housing units, allowing us to comfortably shelter up to 100 cats at the facility.

• Cover the steep and rising costs of emergency veterinary care and specialized treatment.

• Sustain the core operations that feed, shelter, and provide daily care for every animal that walks through our doors.

Visit our website to learn more about our amazing founders and their dreams, volunteer and foster opportunities, and to view our available animals!

GIVE NOW AND HELP US REACH $20,000!

Your donation, no matter the size, fuels our mission. Every gift is a chance for The Babinski Foundation to win bonus funding opportunities, making your support go even further!