STEP 01
You clear out a closet
Clothes, kitchenware, furniture, books, tools, toys. The things you are finished with are the things somebody two streets over is still looking for.
Orphan Annies Inc · a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · Blytheville, Arkansas
A no-kill shelter has a bill. We pay it.
Orphan Annies Inc raises money for the animals of the Blytheville Humane Society — food, vaccinations, heartworm tests, and the spay or neuter surgery every animal needs before it can go home. We have no paid staff. We raise it all by running a thrift store and giving away what it makes.
Our mission
What this organization is, in plain terms.
Mission statement
Orphan Annies Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity in Blytheville, Arkansas. Our mission is to raise funds for the care, sheltering and rehoming of animals through the Blytheville Humane Society, a no-kill shelter serving Mississippi County.
Our activity is a thrift store. We operate one program: Orphan Annie’s Thrift Store at 510 N Broadway, staffed entirely by volunteers. The public donates household goods, volunteers sort and price them, and the store sells them. There is no paid staff and no paid fundraiser at any level of this organization.
The proceeds fund animal care. After the cost of keeping the building open, the money the store takes in pays for food, litter, vaccinations, heartworm testing, and the spay or neuter surgery Arkansas law requires before any shelter animal can be adopted or returned to an owner.
The Internal Revenue Service recognizes Orphan Annies Inc as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3), effective 2 November 2015, EIN 81-0881057, and classifies it as a Type II supporting organization under section 509(a)(3) — a charity that exists to support another public charity. Read our full nonprofit status and filings.
How a donation becomes dog food
Three steps, no payroll in between.
Most charities start by asking you for money. We start by asking for what is already in your closet — and then we do the rest of the work ourselves.
STEP 02
Volunteers put it on the shelf
We sort it, clean it, price it low, and sell it. Nobody here draws a salary, so nothing gets skimmed off between your donation and the animals.
STEP 03
The shelter keeps its doors open
Proceeds go to the Blytheville Humane Society: food, litter, vaccinations, spay and neuter, and the electric bill that keeps the kennels warm.
Three ways in
Four ways to keep the shelter funded.
Nobody has to do all three. Pick the one that costs you least and it still reaches an animal.
Give things
Donate goods
The most useful thing you can do. Clothes, kitchenware, furniture, books, tools, pet supplies. Drop-off is Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday before 2 PM.
See what we takeGive money
Make a donation
Give by card in under a minute, or post a check. We use Zeffy, so there are no processing fees at all — 100% reaches the animals, and it is tax-deductible.
How to donateGive time
Volunteer a shift
There is no paid staff here at all. Sorting, pricing, working the register, moving furniture. A few hours a week keeps the doors open.
Volunteer with usGive nothing
Shop the store
Every purchase is a donation with a jacket attached. The stock is given to us and the staff are volunteers, so the money goes almost undiminished to the animals.
Find the storeAccountability
A small charity, on the public record.
Orphan Annies Inc is a 501(c)(3) public charity, tax-exempt since 2 November 2015, EIN 81-0881057. There is no paid staff and no paid fundraiser.
There is a box in your garage that a dog is waiting on.
Bring it Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday, before two o’clock, to the orange tables at the back of 510 North Broadway.