Patriots and Paws operates a warehouse in Anaheim, CA, where Veterans, Active Duty service members, and Reservists throughout Southern California can personally select the home goods and furnishings they need—at no cost—to create a comfortable and stable home.

In addition to our warehouse, we have five mobile warehouses serving Fort Irwin, Camp Pendleton, Twentynine Palms, Edwards Air Force Base and Greater Los Angeles, VA. We coordinate with housing companies like Liberty Military Housing to schedule these events, and they provide space and volunteers to assist on distribution days.

By providing these essential items for free, we help service members and their families use their funds for other necessities such as food, gas, utilities, and pet supplies.Patriots and Paws has been proudly serving Veterans, Active Duty, and Reservists throughout Southern California for 14 years and is expanding to Southern Nevada.

Since our founding in 2011, we have:

Served over 17,000 families

Provided $18.5 million+ in home goods and furnishings

Logged 154,000+ volunteer hours

What started as an all-volunteer organization has grown to a dedicated team of two full-time and five part-time employees.

2024 was our largest year to date, serving 3,027 families, and in 2025, we have already helped 1465 families—with many more to come.

In 2024, we worked hard in getting the word out to our Veterans, Active Duty and Reservists.  Having the mobile warehouses have been a great way to do that.  Reaching out further to the community that serves Veterans have also been instrumental in raising our numbers.

We continue to give the promise of choice.  What that means is Veterans, Active Duty and Reservists get to choose the items from our warehouse, we don’t pick it out for them.  They get to create their home with items that were donated.

We couldn’t give that promise without our donors, who give us their gently used home goods and furnishings. They are the reason our warehouse is full.

We promise to get those donated items into the hand of those who need it.

We promise to have our doors open so the public can see first hand what we do.  We do this by having events at the warehouse open to the public.

Don’t want to wait that long, come by any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday between 10-2:30 for a tour.

In California we have SB245 Pets For Vets Act, which went into effect January 2020, written by former State Senator Ling Ling Chang, after she visited us and learned about what we ultimately want to do with Veterans and kenneling their animals when they have a need.

 Nevada Veterans, will be able to adopt an animal from any County Shelter at no cost known as Veterans and First Responders Pet Adoption Act.  This Act becomes effective on October 1, 2025.

Stay tune for more details.

In service to others.

Penny