A Call 4 Paws501(c)(3), EIN 26-0245763Headquarters Jersey City, NJSanctuary Jonestown, PA
RescueRehabilitationAdoptionLifetime sanctuary
A Call 4 Paws rescues animals in crisis across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, rehabilitates them on four acres in Jonestown, and places them in homes chosen carefully enough that they stay. The animals who can’t be placed don’t get passed along — they live out their lives with us.
Plat of survey — Jonestown, PA
4.0 acres · sheet 1 of 1
Key to the grounds
02By the numbers
We publish these figures because a rescue that won’t show you its numbers is asking you to trust a feeling. Ours are drawn from our intake and placement records and updated annually.
03Programs
A small organization that tries to do everything ends up doing all of it badly. We hold to five programs, and we resource them properly.
We take animals from overwhelmed municipal shelters, cruelty and hoarding cases, and families facing eviction, illness, or death. Every request gets a real answer, including the honest no when we have no capacity.
Answered within 48 hours
Vaccines, parasite treatment, microchipping, and spay or neuter for every animal before placement — plus the dentals, fracture repairs, and chronic disease management that make an animal adoptable at all.
On-site medical suite since 2019
Decompression, training, and honest matching. We would rather an adopter wait six weeks for the right animal than take the wrong one home this weekend.
Written behavior plan per animal
For animals whose medical or behavioral needs mean placement isn’t safe or realistic, the sanctuary is not a waiting room. It is the permanent answer, funded for the length of their lives.
4 acres in Jonestown, PA
Subsidized spay and neuter, pet food assistance for families in hardship, bite-prevention teaching in classrooms, and plain advice for anyone deciding whether they can take an animal on.
Free to schools and shelters
Full detail
Read how each program is staffed, funded, and measured
All programs04The route an animal takes
Rescue is often described as a rescue and then a happy ending. In practice it is a sequence, each stage gated on the one before, and it does not end at the adoption.
A municipal shelter at capacity, a police officer at a hoarding scene, or a family in crisis reaches us. We assess urgency, confirm we have the space and the medical capacity to say yes, and answer either way within 48 hours.
Trained transport volunteers move the animal from the point of rescue to Jonestown. Crates are sized and secured to industry standard, and every run is logged with a departure and arrival check.
A full veterinary workup: vaccines, parasite treatment, microchip, spay or neuter, and diagnostics for anything the exam turns up. The animal stays in the quarantine building until cleared.
Decompression first, training second. Behavior staff build a written plan for each animal — house manners, leash work, resource guarding, fear of men, whatever the case needs — and revise it weekly.
We match to the household, not the wish list. That means honest conversations about energy level, medical costs, other pets, and children, and it sometimes means recommending a different animal than the one an adopter came for.
Adoption closes with a 30-day check-in, a 6-month follow-up, and a standing offer: if the placement ever stops working, the animal comes back to us. No fee, no questions, no time limit.
05Where the money goes
We run lean deliberately: no paid fundraisers, no agency retainers, a board that covers its own expenses. Here is the breakdown, and what specific amounts actually buy.
Figures reflect our most recent full fiscal year. Our IRS Form 990 and determination letter are available on request through the contact form.
06Get involved
Not everyone can adopt. Fostering costs nothing but space and patience — we cover food and every veterinary bill. Transport volunteers give one Saturday a month. And if all you have is twenty dollars, that is a week of prescription food for a dog who needs it.