About Dezire Foundation
A founder-led nonprofit built from love, gratitude, and a need to act.
Founded by Keyhan Kaveh, Dezire is a California Nonprofit Corporation, Public Benefit — using honest storytelling and video to help shelter animals, strays, and overlooked community members be seen, heard, and supported. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status pending IRS approval.
Mission
Dezire Foundation gives a voice to unseen animals and vulnerable people by sharing their stories, building community support, and helping create love, safety, and lasting change.
Vision
A world where no animal or person is invisible simply because their story has not yet been told.
Origin Story
The first episode begins with the shelter dog who changed Keyhan's direction.
Dezire began with one dog named Harley. For nearly three years, he offered love, loyalty, and a kind of quiet guidance that became impossible to ignore.
Through Harley, Keyhan found the mission: help the unseen become seen, and help the unheard become heard. The origin episode is being shaped as the emotional beginning of Dezire — loving, grateful, and honest about what is still being built.
Values
The heartfelt promise behind every story.
Dezire's work is designed to feel emotionally powerful without becoming exploitative, inflated, or performative.
Love
Lead with care for the life at the center of every story.
Dignity
Never reduce an animal or person to hardship, pity, or a headline.
Trust
Build confidence with early supporters, shelters, rescues, and communities.
Storytelling
Use video and narrative to make the overlooked visible.
Action
Turn visibility into meaningful care, adoption support, and community change — one honest story at a time.
Community
Build a space where people who care about animals and dignity can find each other and do something about it.
Why Storytelling Matters
A story can open a door that statistics never could.
Visibility creates care — but only when the story is told with context, restraint, and genuine respect for the life at its center.
Dezire is building a platform where video becomes a bridge: between a shelter animal and the person who will love them, between a community member and the help they deserve, between an early supporter and a mission they can fully trust.
Help make it real
The first stories need your support to begin.
Dezire is early-stage and founder-funded. Your early support helps launch the first origin episode and animal story films with care and dignity.