Veterinary care
Rescued cats are treated at the Clear Lake clinic Lew has worked with for years. Care like that is what donations will help carry.
Lake County, California
Twenty years of hands-on rescue around Clear Lake. Now forming as a nonprofit, so the work can be funded by the community it serves.
Donations are now open
Lew is an electrical contractor in Lake County, California. Before that, he spent decades as an engineer, working in radio frequency and microwave systems. And for the last twenty years, through all of it, he has been doing something quieter: animal rescue.
The work is not glamorous. It is colonies of cats that need looking after, day in and day out. It is trips to a trusted veterinary clinic in Clear Lake, the one he has worked with more than any other. It is about three colonies’ worth of lives, carried year after year at his own expense.
The name is older than the paperwork. In 2012, Lew taught a seminar for YouthWorks on Lake County ecology, solar power, electric cars, and animal rescue. The idea for the name came out of that seminar, and it stayed with him. Now it is becoming something real.
“This nonprofit, the idea is to allow me to operate at the same level, only not out of pocket.”
Lew, on the phone call that started this page
02 The mission
For two decades, this work has had exactly one funding source: Lew. All Kitties Go To Heaven is being formed as a nonprofit, with legal guidance. The reason is plain: so the work can be funded by the community it serves, instead of out of one man’s pocket.
Nothing about the work changes. Only who carries the cost.
03 The work
No invented numbers and no borrowed stories. Just the real shape of the work, as Lew describes it.
Rescued cats are treated at the Clear Lake clinic Lew has worked with for years. Care like that is what donations will help carry.
About three colonies of cats depend on steady, day-to-day looking after. Support will keep that routine unbroken.
Lew intends to keep operating at the level he always has. Community funding is what will make that sustainable.
As the nonprofit takes shape, updates will appear here.
04 Donations
Donations run through Zeffy. It is free for the rescue, so no fees come out of your gift, and every dollar goes into the organization’s own account.
Zeffy emails you a receipt for every donation.
Prefer a full page? Open the donation form (opens in a new tab)
Where things stand: The donation portal is live. Gifts are handled by Zeffy and go straight into All Kitties Go To Heaven’s own account. This page will always say plainly where things stand.
05 Right now
Questions, encouragement, or an offer to lend a hand. Every note lands in the rescue’s own inbox.
allkittiesgotoheavenKnow someone around Clear Lake who cares about cats? Tell them this page exists. Word of mouth costs nothing and travels far in a small county.