Great Plains SPCA

Our Mission

To drive change in our community through innovative programs that promote adoption, outreach and a better life for pets and the people who love them.

Our Culture

To keep our mission at the forefront of everything we do. At Great Plains SPCA we uphold a culture where:

We treat animals and people with respect, dignity and compassion.
We focus on the “we” versus “me” driving results with flexibility, efficiency and integrity.
We are a diverse, proactive team with a solution-focused mindset that strives to be the best animal shelter in the Midwest.

We have been evaluated by Charity Navigator, the world’s largest and most trusted nonprofit evaluator, and earned a Four-Star, rating! Charity Navigator’s third-party accreditation validates our organization’s operational excellence. This milestone achievement for Great Plains SPCA couldn’t have happened without you and your support. Thank you for being part of our family as contributors, funders, and volunteers.

The Platinum Seal of Transparency is the pinnacle of recognition offered by Candid, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information. By sharing detailed metrics that showcase our progress toward our mission, we enable you—our donors and supporters—to see the direct impact of your contributions. Updating our Candid Nonprofit Profile to earn the Platinum Seal involved providing extensive information, including basic contact and organizational details, in-depth financial data, qualitative information about our goals, strategies, and capabilities, and quantitative information about our results and mission progress. This transparency demonstrates our commitment to accountability and provides donors and funders with meaningful data to evaluate our annual performance.

The metrics we report are a testament to the generous support we receive. Without your contributions, our mission to drive change in our community through innovative programs promoting adoption, outreach, and better lives for pets and their people would not be possible. We deeply appreciate your continued support. To visit our profile, click here.

Welcome to Great Plains SPCA – A note from Tam Singer, CEO

Great Plains SPCA provides lifesaving services for approximately 5,000 animals and 500,000 residents annually in the greater Kansas City area. Great Plains SPCA exists because of our caring Kansas City community and generous donors. We offer a lifelong, full-circle approach for pets and their human companions with our three-pronged approach: prevention, adoption, retention.

When we began as Animal Haven in 1966, we committed to working as the community shelter, filling in a need that didn’t exist at the time. Today, our commitment remains to the cities and residents we support. As Kansas City’s premium family shelter, we continue to support the nine municipalities with which we are contracted, including Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, Prairie Village, Shawnee, Bonner Springs, Lake Quivira and Johnson County Parks Department and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.

We work every day to provide best in class care for homeless pets, reuniting lost pets with their owners, and serving those in greatest need through our HERO program, collaboration with Puppies for Parole, and public behavior classes. Our commitment to matching pets with forever homes is at the center of everything we do.

As CEO, I am committed to creating an inclusive and diverse organization and ensure that our mission to be “A Hero for Pets; Partners for Life” is possible.

Tam Singer

Chief Executive Officer

Our Team

Great Plains SPCA is fortunate to have the support of highly respected business leaders on our Board of Directors to help us drive our mission forward. They work alongside the experienced business professionals and experts in the animal welfare field that form the Great Plains SPCA team.