K9 Search and Rescue Foundation
Supporting the Teams Who Search for the Missing.
K9 Search and Rescue Foundation supports search and rescue K9 teams through training, equipment, education, and partnerships—helping handlers and their K9 partners remain prepared and mission ready.
TRAINING • EQUIPMENT • EDUCATION • PARTNERSHIPS
Our Mission
When Someone Is Missing, Preparation Matters.
Search and rescue K9 teams dedicate countless hours to training, preparation, and maintaining operational readiness before they are ever called to help locate a missing person.
Specialized training, certification, equipment, veterinary care, travel, and continuing education can represent a significant investment for handlers and volunteer organizations.
K9 Search and Rescue Foundation exists to help strengthen those teams.
Our mission is to support K9 search and rescue handlers and organizations by expanding access to quality training, mission-essential equipment, education, and partnerships.
Why We Exist
Supporting Those Who Dedicate Themselves to the Search
Professional K9 search and rescue requires an extraordinary commitment from both handler and K9.
Behind every deployment are countless hours of training, continuing education, equipment preparation, travel, veterinary care, conditioning, and practice.
Many handlers and volunteer organizations personally shoulder a significant portion of those expenses because they believe in being ready when their communities need them.
The K9 Search and Rescue Foundation was created to help reduce those barriers, strengthen professional development, and invest in the teams who dedicate themselves to helping locate the missing.
How We Help
Investing in K9 Search and Rescue
Training
Helping K9 handlers access professional training, continuing education, seminars, workshops, and specialized search and rescue instruction.
Equipment
Helping provide access to mission-essential equipment that supports K9 welfare, handler safety, training, and operational readiness.
Education
Promoting greater understanding of professional K9 search and rescue, responsible deployment, preparedness, and continuing development.
Partnerships
Connecting handlers, agencies, trainers, businesses, organizations, and communities that share a commitment to strengthening K9 search and rescue.
Who We Support
Supporting Search and Rescue K9 Teams
Search and rescue encompasses multiple disciplines, environments, and operational needs. Foundation programs are intended to support qualified handlers and organizations committed to training, professionalism, and service.
Potential areas of support may include:
- Scent-specific trailing
- Tracking
- Wilderness air scent
- Human remains detection
- Disaster search
- Urban search
- Water recovery
- Other recognized K9 search and rescue disciplines
Make an Impact
Help Strengthen the Teams Behind the Search.
Search and rescue K9 teams invest extraordinary time and resources preparing for the moment their skills may be needed.
Your support helps the Foundation expand opportunities for training, equipment, education, and partnerships that strengthen K9 search and rescue teams.
Our Impact
Building a Foundation for the Future
K9 Search and Rescue Foundation is building relationships with handlers, trainers, agencies, businesses, organizations, and communities that share a commitment to professional search and rescue.
As Foundation programs grow, this section will highlight the teams supported, training opportunities funded, equipment provided, and partnerships developed.
Partners in the Mission
Stronger Through Partnership
Businesses, organizations, trainers, agencies, and community partners can play an important role in strengthening K9 search and rescue.
Partnerships may help provide training opportunities, equipment, financial support, professional expertise, or other resources that directly advance the Foundation's mission.
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About the Foundation
Built for the Field. Focused on the Mission.
The K9 Search and Rescue Foundation was established to address a critical gap: the dedicated handlers and K9 teams who volunteer their time and skills to find missing persons often lack access to the resources they need to operate at the highest level.
We are a nonprofit organization committed to bridging that gap — connecting teams with funding, training opportunities, equipment, and a network of partners who share our commitment to the mission.
News & Resources
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Foundation News
Foundation programs, partnerships, and activities.
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K9 SAR Education
Educational information about search disciplines, preparedness, training, and professional K9 search and rescue.
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Training Opportunities
Relevant training, seminars, workshops, and educational opportunities.
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Apply for Support
Is Your Team Eligible?
We welcome applications from certified search and rescue K9 handlers and teams. If your team needs support with training costs, equipment, or professional development, we want to hear from you.
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Questions, applications, or partnership inquiries — we'd love to hear from you.