Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

What Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter does

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter (YVAS) is a private nonprofit animal welfare organization headquartered in Billings, Montana, founded in 2009. The shelter is the only identified animal shelter serving the Yellowstone Valley area and provides animal intake, care, veterinary services, adoption, and rehoming to the local community. YVAS is a traditional service-delivery nonprofit rather than a technology company: no proprietary software, APIs, or branded service modules are documented, and its core technology field is empty in the available data.

Name

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Legal name

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Website

https://yvas.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter is a Billings, Montana nonprofit founded in 2009 that provides animal intake, care, adoption, and rehoming services to the Yellowstone Valley community as the only animal shelter in the area.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Animal Shelter Services

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Animal Shelters & Adoption Services (BPAGAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Animal Shelters & Rescue Operations (AFAEALAB)

Keywords

• Animal shelter services
• Pet adoption services
• Animal welfare care
• Homeless animal housing
• Community animal rescue

Headquarters

HQ city

Billings

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Donations and Community Support: The shelter operates as a nonprofit relying on community donations and support. Following the emergency, they received donations to replace discarded supplies and free warehouse space from a community partner.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter is a nonprofit animal welfare organization that provides shelter, care, and adoption services for homeless and displaced animals in the Billings, Montana community. The organization intakes animals, provides veterinary care and temporary housing, and facilitates pet adoptions for community members. It operates as a community-supported animal welfare resource serving the Yellowstone Valley region.

Product overview

Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter is a nonprofit animal welfare organization providing shelter, care, and adoption services for animals in need. The organization operates as a traditional animal shelter rather than a technology product company, offering animal housing, veterinary care, and rehoming services to the Billings, Montana community. No distinct technology products, software platforms, or branded service modules were identified in the available source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Animal Shelter and Care Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lionheart CannabiscoreOthersLionheart Cannabis provided free warehouse space to the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter following the emergency evacuation caused by toxic smoke from a crematorium incident. This partnership enabled the shelter to continue operations during their four-month displacement period.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Others

• Petfinder Foundation: Supports adoption-focused animal shelters with grants and resources; ecosystem enabler comparable to the kind of support YVAS relies on for operations and adoption listings.
• Maddie's Fund: Family foundation that has granted to YVAS (2023). Not a direct shelter peer, but a key institutional funder and capacity-builder for community animal shelters in the U.S.

Broad incumbents

• ASPCA: National animal welfare nonprofit that both operates sheltering programs and funds local shelters; comparable mission and donor base to YVAS but at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Humane Society of the United States: The largest U.S. animal welfare advocacy and shelter-support organization; comparable to YVAS as both operate within the nonprofit animal welfare space, though HSUS operates at a national advocacy scale rather than direct sheltering.
• Best Friends Animal Society: Operates the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary and partners with shelters nationwide on adoption and spay/neuter; comparable nonprofit shelter mission to YVAS with broader program scope.

Regional players

• Lewis & Clark Humane Society: Nonprofit animal shelter serving Helena and surrounding Montana communities; comparable regional shelter operations, adoption services, and community-donor funding structure.
• Montana Humane Society: Regional animal shelter serving the Butte and southwestern Montana area; directly comparable nonprofit shelter operating model, with similar donation-dependent funding and community focus.

Direct peers

• Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter: Nonprofit animal shelter in Bozeman, Montana serving the Gallatin Valley; operates with a similar community-led model, donation base, and regional shelter mission as YVAS.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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