Our Story: 2022 to Now

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Graceland Meadows is currently the permanent home for two rescued horses. six hens, two dogs, and four companion birds.  
🐶 Since opening in 2022, we’ve fostered another ten pups, until each was adopted out to their forever home.  🐾 We continually take in animals in need and find them new homes, or sanctuary them here. 

With a dream of an animal rescue named Graceland Meadows, we moved to Ossining/ New Castle from an apartment in NYC.  Beloved Mother & Grandmother Barbara and fur-baby Rocco were unwell, and soon passed away at Graceland Meadows.  Shortly after, we lost Andrew — animal lover, original Board Member, and force of nature. Each lives on here as daily inspiration.

Home Depot in Hawthorne selected us as their “give back to the community” nonprofit, and their generous gift helped us to install all new horse fencing on the property. We adopted “The Girls,” aka our heavenly horses Sweet Caroline and Wendy, and took in our first rescue pups, Nala and her puppy Daisy.

We were on our way!

We‘re on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and X — sharing the animals’ stories and growing a community so that together, we do more.  

We run entirely on donations and fundraising to manage expenses: food, veterinary, dentist, farrier, supplies, and operational. Here’s what it costs for only feed for the animals in residence —
MONTHLY FEED

🐴 $670 - horses’ hay, grain, alfalfa

🐶 $200- dogs

🐔 $70 - chickens

PLEASE DONATE!  Every penny helps us continue our mission.

The Binky Foundation, Greater Ossining Chamber of Commerce, and Westchester County BusinessFirst have graciously provided Graceland Meadows with grants for our work.

We are also very thankful to all the supporters who have donated online, at events, and when visiting our facility.  Thank you thank you thank you  … you know who you are!

Every day we see heartbreaking stories of horses who we could be helping now. We have space, but we need to build these to take in more. 

• Girl Scouts troops volunteer hands-on, learn about animal welfare and our rescue stories, run fundraising & supply drives, and help us with volunteer recruiting. 
• Students from area schools - Horace Greeley and Ossining High Schools, Anne M. Dorner Middle School, Claremont Elementary, Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law & the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, and many more - join us to volunteer, build experience, and meet their community service requirements!
• West Point Corps of Cadets India Company 3rd Regiment championed several projects and spent quality time with the animals - we’re thankful always for their service!
• 100+ generous community supporters from Briarcliff, Chappaqua, Cortlandt, Croton, Millwood, Mt. Kisco, New Castle, Ossining, Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown and beyond care for our rescue animals. 
• Resource for the community with Programs for schools, special needs, and seniors — rooted in experiences with our supporters. 
• Take in surrendered pets from the community. 
• Work with Incredible Pups Pet Rescue to foster dogs from high-risk shelters. 
• Approved member of Farm Sanctuary’s Farm Animal Adoption Network.  
• Participated in Green Ossining’s Earth Day Festival and the Ossining Village Fair. 
• Members of Nonprofit Westchester, and the Chappaqua-Millwood and Greater Ossining Chambers of Commerce. 
• Monitor area online groups & posts for missing pets/animals spotted wandering loose to find and home temporarily or longer, as needed. 

Our first startup expense was all new horse fencing … and now we’ve got the pups a safe, fenced-in run with access to their pup parlor! Thank you to the Binky Foundation, and three special neighbors who made this happen with their generosity. 

Playtime-

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Pup Parlor-

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We‘ve run two Open Houses so far, with entertainment, dog adoptions, and donated food & bev from a local vegan restaurant. We met new friends and volunteers including neighbors, The Ethical Society of Westchester, and IBM.  Stay Tuned for upcoming events!