Adoption coming soon
Adopt a friend
Adopting from our sanctuary is one of the most impactful ways you can help. You give rescued animals a chance — and make space for us to save even more.
Adopt a friendWays to help
Join us as we transform lives.
Become part of our family today. Choose the path that fits your life — each one directly saves an animal.
You can open your home while we provide food, supplies and veterinary care.
Learn more about our animal rescue in Orange County and the foster-based work your help supports.
Our common questions can help you decide where to begin.
If you cannot bring an animal home, you can support foster care with a gift toward food and medical care.
Healing Hearts Sanctuary SoCal is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Gifts of money, goods and land are all tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Tax ID (EIN): 39-2801580.
Fosters needed now
Foster an animal, change a life
Foster homes are a crucial part of our mission. The bond you build will change your life, and the insight you share helps us place each animal where they'll thrive.
Foster a friend
Give time
Volunteer
Walking and grooming, marketing and social media, photographing pets, helping at events — there are countless ways to make a meaningful impact.
Volunteer now
Give support
Donate
It takes a community. Every donation, big or small, goes directly toward land, permits, housing, and food and medical care for animals in foster.
Donate todayWhich path fits you?
Five minutes to find your way in.
Every path saves lives; they just ask for different things. Here's how to choose.
- 1 Have a spare room and a few weeks? Foster. It costs you nothing and it's the single highest-impact thing you can do for us right now.
- 2 Ready for a lifelong companion? Adopt. Questionnaires are open now so we can match you the moment an animal is ready.
- 3 Have skills, weekends or a camera? Volunteer. Photography, social media, events and transport all directly speed adoptions.
- 4 Short on time? Donate or send supplies. Land, permits, vet bills and food are our four biggest costs.
You can do this today
- Submit a foster or adoption questionnaire (10 minutes)
- Set up a monthly gift of any size
- Follow and share our Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
- Ship a wish-list item to a foster family
- Ask your employer about donation matching
How we keep your trust
- Registered 501(c)(3), EIN 39-2801580
- Board of directors with veterinary-industry, legal and finance experience
- No-kill by charter — we publish live-release outcomes
- Every foster animal is vetted, vaccinated and microchipped before adoption
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) questionnaires and support
Where we are on the sanctuary journey
Foster-based rescue
We pull at-risk dogs and cats from Southern California shelters and place them in matched foster homes with full medical support.
Land & permits
Donations are funding the search for acreage and the zoning, engineering and legal work a sanctuary requires.
A permanent sanctuary
Housing for animals who need longer healing, plus programs for the people who heal alongside them — including a pollinator garden.