Cathy Bissell Net Worth 2026: BISSELL Pet Foundation Founder

No reputable outlet has published an estimate of Cathy Bissell's net worth. Earlier versions of this page gave $222 million and a yearly income of $10 million without any source, and both have been removed. Her public role is philanthropic: she founded the BISSELL Pet Foundation in 2011, a nonprofit that funds shelter adoptions, spay/neuter work and disaster response across the United States. The family wealth behind her comes from BISSELL Homecare, the privately owned Michigan vacuum and carpet-cleaner maker that her husband, Mark Bissell, took over.

What is Cathy Bissell's net worth?

There is no net worth figure for Cathy Bissell, or for the Bissell family, from Forbes, Bloomberg or any other reputable outlet. BISSELL Inc. is privately owned and does not publish revenue or ownership details. Wikipedia describes it as the top floor-care maker in North America by sales, with about 20% market share, and says it is headquartered in Walker, Michigan, but gives no valuation.

Her foundation is not a source of personal wealth. It is a charity, and she has said it passes 100% of donations to animal programs rather than administration or marketing.

Cathy Bissell's yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

Her income has never been published. The table on the earlier page ($10 million a year, $833,000 a month and $27,000 a day) had no source and has been removed. Any salary she draws from the family company is private, and the foundation's filings, not this page, would be the place to check what, if anything, it pays its founder.

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Career: from fashion magazines to BISSELL

In a 2021 interview with Know Your Value, Bissell described her path:

• College: meets Mark Bissell, a member of the company's founding family.
• New York: the couple move to New York City, where she works in magazines, including Harper's Bazaar and GQ.
• Michigan: they return to Michigan for the family business. She works briefly as a fashion reporter in Grand Rapids, then joins BISSELL Homecare, where she pushes for new packaging, product development and marketing ideas.
• 2005: after Hurricane Katrina, a local shelter asks her to help with a fundraiser for displaced pets. Touring shelters, she finds what she calls her life's calling in animal welfare, in her late 40s.
• 2011: founds the BISSELL Pet Foundation.

The BISSELL Pet Foundation

According to the foundation, its work rests on four programs: adoption, spay and neuter, microchipping, and crisis and disaster response. It notes that more than six million pets enter North American shelters each year.

• Empty the Shelters: reduced-fee adoption events run since 2016. Bissell told The Story Exchange in 2024 that the program had placed more than 300,000 pets through 800 partner groups in 48 states and Canada. She calls it the largest-funded adoption program in the country.
• Fix the Future: a spay/neuter program that, in its first 14 months, signed up more than 300 veterinarians and helped more than 66,000 pets in 30 states, she said.
• Scale: by its 10th anniversary in 2021, the foundation said it had helped more than 380,000 pets.

She is also hands-on. She told the Business Journals in 2026 that she is not afraid to clean a dirty kennel or take a sick animal into her own home, and she has written publicly against labeling shelters as "kill" shelters.

Recent news (2025-2026)

• Giles County shelter gift: at the start of 2026, WSMV reported that Cathy Bissell and the foundation donated $300,000 toward a new animal shelter in Pulaski, Tennessee.
• Profile: in February 2026 the Business Journals ran an "In Her Own Words" feature on how adopting a rescued black Lab named Bear led her into animal welfare.
• Empty the Shelters: partner shelters across the country, from Arizona to Tennessee, continued to run foundation-sponsored adoption events through 2026.

Early life and family

Bissell is originally from Michigan. She was 62 at the time of the October 2021 interview, which puts her at about 67 in 2026. The childhood story and height and weight that appeared on the old page had no source and have been removed.

Cathy Bissell husband

She is married to Mark Bissell, whom she met in college. In her words, he later took over the family company, BISSELL Homecare, and backed her ideas for it.

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Why there is no reliable figure

The Bissell family's wealth is held in a private company that does not disclose sales, profits or shareholdings, and no business outlet has estimated its value. How that ownership is split within the family is also private. For those reasons this page does not give a number and will add one only if a reputable outlet publishes it.

For another philanthropist on this site, see Don Nicewonder.