Is purple-paws.org legit or a scam?
Purple-paws.org is the official, long-standing website for a verified 501(c)(3) animal rescue in Kansas with a decade of clean history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate animal welfare organization with professional design, consistent branding, and standard non-profit functionality.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional logo for 'Purple Power Animal Welfare Society' with consistent branding
Standard navigation menu for a non-profit including memorials and rescue stories
Functional social media links to Facebook and Instagram
Clear call-to-action buttons for adoption, donation, and contact
High-quality, relevant imagery of domestic animals
Clean layout with no aggressive urgency tactics or fake trust badges
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 13 years, which is a strong indicator of stability and legitimacy. Our intelligence stack confirms the organization is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with active tax filings and transparent financial records. We found no malicious detections across 92 antivirus engines, and the site maintains a clean reputation with major browser blocklists. Visual analysis shows a professional, functional website that matches the organization's mission and social media presence. The lack of any scam reports combined with high-quality third-party verification makes this a highly trustworthy site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for purple-paws.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain purple-paws.org is the official website for Purple Power Animal Welfare Society (Purple PAWS), a foster-based animal rescue founded in 2012 in the Manhattan/Junction City, KS area.
- Registered as 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 46-2496718) since May 2013; recent filings show ~$123k–$160k annual revenue, growing net assets (~$296k in 2024), all-volunteer (officers compensated $0).
- Listed on Charity Navigator (3/4 star rating noted in one source), ProPublica, NoKill Network (verified), Petfinder, Adopt-a-Pet, and active Facebook page with 19k+ likes promoting adoptions and fostering.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across searches for scam/fraud/complaint; positive presence on rescue listing sites with adoptable animals and volunteer applications.
- Donations promoted via PayPal, checks, Amazon Smile, and local partners; claims >3,000 animals rescued since founding, consistent with multi-year tax data showing program service revenue.
- Active social media and listings as of 2026 with current adoptable pets; contact (785) 844-9199 and purplepoweraws@gmail.com match across official sources.
- Charity Navigatoropen
"Purple Power Animal Welfare Society Inc. has earned a 3/4 Star rating on Charity Navigator."
- NoKill Networkopen
"No Kill Verified. Visit Purple Power Animal Welfare Society (Manhattan) >> http://www.purple-paws.org"
- ProPublica Nonprofit Exploreropen
"Tax-exempt since May 2013. Revenue $123k (2024), Expenses $97.1k (2024), Total Assets $324k (2024). All-volunteer with $0 executive compensation."
501(c)(3) tax-exempt since May 2013, EIN 46-2496718, based in Wamego/Manhattan, KS. Files Form 990 annually with consistent positive net assets and no paid executives.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((785) 844-9199).
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://purple-paws.org/
- 2200https://www.purple-paws.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on purple-paws.org and not a lookalike like p-urple-paws.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on purple-paws.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- purple-paws.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. purple-paws.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 38 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- purple-paws.org is 13.5 years old, registered on 12/18/2012 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report purple-paws.org as clean.
- No. purple-paws.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- purple-paws.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around purple-paws.org have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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