Shelter Insights
Free analytics computed from public shelter open data. See how we calculate them

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Embeddable benchmarks widget and RSS

Oct 22, 2026

Embed a free table of shelter length-of-stay benchmarks on your site, or follow updates by RSS.

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Members area and data contributions

Oct 21, 2026

Shelters can request access to members-only decision-support tools after contributing a de-identified export.

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Eight open datasets, city pages and a stronger long-stay model

Oct 21, 2026

Open data now covers 8 shelters and about 653,000 stays, with a page for each shelter, a national comparison, three guides and a glossary. The long-stay model's accuracy is published on the methodology page.

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Shelter Insights launches

Oct 20, 2026

Free length-of-stay benchmarks, a cost-of-care calculator and a kennel capacity estimator built on about 260,000 public shelter stays.

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