Autumn hills in peak color under a cloudy sky: red maples and dark spruce in front, blue wooded ridges behind.

FarmingtonStrafford CountyNew Hampshire

Strafford County Animal Protection Society Neighbors since 1965.

Plate I.The hills, turningSeptember

Quietly helping local people keep their animals healthy since 1965: small grants toward vet bills for people who cannot afford care, spay and neuter, food, humane education and a hand for local rescues. Turn the season

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A small society with deep roots.

The Strafford County Animal Protection Society is a nonprofit in Farmington, New Hampshire. The IRS recognized it as tax-exempt in 1965, and it has been doing the same quiet work since: helping animals by helping the people who care for them.

It makes small grants, mostly toward veterinary bills for people who cannot afford care, and support grants to local rescues. It also funds spay and neuter, medical care, food and humane education.

Name: Strafford County Animal Protection Society
Recognized: 1965, by IRS ruling
Status: 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
Classified as: Private foundation
EIN: 02-6013420
Home: 122 Cocheco Rd, Farmington, NH 03835

Read Chapter III: the history, the filings and the money

1965. The first ring.

Count the rings One for every year since 1965. Drag, or tap the stump.

A white farmhouse beside red barns and a tall silo, a gravel drive curving past green pasture, wooded hills in fall color behind. — Plate II.A farmhouse and barns in October

A dry stone wall of rounded fieldstones with oak leaves drifted against it, between tall pine trunks, a wooded mountain beyond. — Plate III.A stone wall under the pines

A red covered bridge over a still river among autumn trees, mirrored in the water.

Part 2 October

A bridge for the hard months.

Animals get sick on their own schedule, not on payday. When the vet bill is bigger than the month, a good home can suddenly feel a long way from the help it needs.

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Midstream

That is what the Society is for.

Its small grants go mostly toward veterinary bills for people who cannot afford care, so the animal gets seen and treated close to home.

The far bank

And before trouble, prevention.

Spay and neuter, food and humane education: the steady, everyday care that keeps animals healthy long before anyone needs a bridge.

Five ways the Society helps.

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No. 1 of 5

Help with the vet bill.

Small grants, mostly toward veterinary bills and medical care, for people who cannot afford the care their animal needs.

Grants are small and decided by the Society. How grants work, and how to ask

Brick mill buildings with rows of arched windows and a stair tower on a riverbank, a wooded hill behind with a few trees turning yellow.

Plate VIII.Brick mills along the river

Part 4 Late November

Close to home.

Mill towns, back roads, farmhouses at the end of long driveways. The Society works for the people of Strafford County and the animals they love, and it is reached the old-fashioned way: by mail, or by phone on (351) 207-8729.

Where to write

Write to the Society.

Gifts and grant enquiries both go by mail to Farmington. Choose a letter below, fill in the brackets, and put it in the mailbox. For the details, read how grants work or how to give.

The side of a weathered metal rural mailbox on a wooden post, its red flag raised. — Plate XI.Flag up, a letter waiting

Strafford County Animal Protection Society
122 Cocheco Rd
Farmington, NH 03835

Grants are decided by the Society, and a letter is the first step. Writing does not guarantee a grant or a set amount.

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501(c)(3) recognised by the IRS, EIN 02-6013420