Animal Welfare Fund
FundActiveSupports organizations working to improve animal welfare
$21M total
| Grant | Recipient | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating charities and promoting effectiveness in the animal movement | Animal Charity Evaluators | $500K | 2018-04 |
| 39% of 2022 general operating expenses to build an academic field dedicated to wild animal welfare | Wild Animal Initiative | $400K | 2022-07 |
| General Support | Rethink Priorities | $309K | 2021-01 |
| General Support | Wild Animal Initiative | $300K | 2021-01 |
| General support for our activities in 2024 and 2025, amounts to 7.3% of 2024 expenditures and 14.3% of our planned 2025 | Wild Animal Initiative | $300K | 2024-10 |
| Support annual salaries of max 9 employees (6 FTE) and other expenses to advance invertebrate and wild animal research | Rethink Priorities | $296K | 2023-04 |
| Costs for several projects to identify likely impactful, tractable interventions for wild animals & begin implementation | Rethink Priorities | $253K | 2024-01 |
| Wild animal welfare and invertebrate welfare research | Rethink Priorities | $250K | 2022-01 |
| General support for 15 months to extend expiring staff contracts and hire new key positions | Equalia | $250K | 2022-07 |
| Funding would cover 24.8% of 2024 general operating expenses necessary to build an academic field of wild animal welfare | Wild Animal Initiative | $217K | 2023-10 |
| SWP works with stakeholders to reduce the suffering of farmed shrimps, with a focus on India and Southeast Asia | Shrimp Welfare Project, Ltd | $210K | 2022-10 |
| Campaign budget to pressure Lidl and other retailers to produce broiler welfare policies in Europe | Anima International | $200K | 2022-10 |
| 12 months of operational funding to build capacity and strengthen the global impact of the Aquatic Animal Alliance | Aquatic Life Institute | $200K | 2022 |
| Funding for strategic regranting to drive fulfillment of the 2025 cage-free corporate commitments in key regions | Open Wing Alliance | $200K | 2024-10 |
| Funding & resources for 12 months to hold companies accountable for their cage-free and Better Chicken Commitments | The Humane League UK (THL UK) | $200K | 2025-01 |
| General Support | Equalia | $190K | 2021-07 |
| Salary & discretionary costs to secure 2 supermarket Better Chicken Commitments & legal protections for farmed fishes | The Humane League UK (THL UK) | $190K | 2023-07 |
| 1-year funding to continue the capacity-building work through the pilot Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship | Effective Altruism Singapore | $185K | 2022-01 |
| 12 months of operational funding to build capacity and strengthen the global impact of the Aquatic Animal Alliance | Aquatic Life Institute | $180K | 2024-01 |
| General Support | Fish Welfare Initiative | $170K | 2022-01 |
| General Support | Sinergia Animal | $165K | 2021-01 |
| Continuing work for increased farmed fish slaughter laws and halting UK salmon industry’s expansion, including onshore | Animal Equality UK | $165K | 2024-10 |
| Funding 10% of 2022-2023 operating budget to support expanded globally-distributed team | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) | $160K | 2022-10 |
| A 2 years plan to advance the legal protection of decapod crustaceans in Italy | Animal Law Italia (ALI) | $159K | 2022-07 |
| 1-year funding for movement building, corporate and cage-free campaigns in Latin America and Asia, and support roles | Sinergia Animal | $157K | 2022-07 |
| Two years of operational costs for Animals Aotearoa, New Zealand’s primary charity for improving broiler welfare | Animals Aotearoa | $139K | 2023-10 |
| Launch campaigns targeting investors in insect farming and consider lobbying to slow the growth of the sector | Insect Welfare Project (Temporary Name) | $135K | 2021-01 |
| Providing 100 Travel Stipends for impactful advocates to attend the only farmed animal advocacy conference in Africa | Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) International | $133K | 2025-01 |
| 12-month funding for Cambridge EA's alt-protein field-building efforts | Cambridge Effective Altruism CIC | $130K | 2022-01 |
| A budget to support cage-free policy work in Ghana and recruiting cage-free farms in South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco | Animal Welfare League | $130K | 2024-10 |
| Purchase 2 stunners for producers committing to stun a minimum. of 1.4k MT (~100 million) of shrimps/annum per stunner | Shrimp Welfare Project, Ltd | $130K | 2023-07 |
| General Support | Sentience Politics | $125K | 2021-07 |
| General Support | The Humane League UK (THL UK) | $119K | 2021-01 |
| Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standards | The Center For Responsible Seafood | $117K | 2024-10 |
| Engage in campaigns against battery cages in East Africa and researching the state of caged chicken farming in West Africa. | Africa Network For Animal Welfare (ANAW) | $105K | 2022-01 |
| Progress the work of Animals Aotearoa, the only NGO working on chicken corporate welfare commitments in New Zealand | Animals Aotearoa | $103K | 2021-10 |
| 2025 operations: Online outreach to target audience → Convert them to new effective FAW donors at www.farmkind.giving | FarmKind | $103K | 2024-10 |
| General Support | Effective Altruism Singapore | $100K | 2021-07 |
| Costs to continue and expand culture-specific workshops for advocates to increase efficacy across Asia. | Animal Alliance Asia | $100K | 2022-01 |
| 12-month salary for new hires and other costs to increase capacity for cage-free campaigns and fish welfare outreach | ÇIftlik HayvanlarıNı Koruma DerneğI (Farm Animals Protection Association) | $100K | 2022-01 |
| Hiring for EU and Global Corporate Relations positions | The Humane League UK | $100K | 2019-01 |
| Research on improving the welfare of wild animals | Wild Animal Suffering Research, Via The Effective Altruism Foundation | $100K | 2018-01 |
| 12-month salary to protect the foie gras ban and advance legislation to protect aquatic & fur animals in NYC | Voters For Animal Rights | $100K | 2022-07 |
| Establish status of battery cage farming in 3 Southern Africa countries,campaigns in E.Africa and conference in W.Africa | Africa Network For Animal Welfare (ANAW) | $100K | 2022-10 |
| Funding to directly leverage US$3tn investor funds for 5 listed cage-free company outcomes including commitments to cage-free eggs, chicken or group sow housing. | Asia Research & Engagement | $100K | 2022-10 |
| Funding to incorporate lessons learned from impact assessment into ACE’s strategy and operations | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) | $100K | 2023-10 |
| Funding to cultivate a more coordinated and strategic farmed animal advocacy movement. | Impactful Animal Advocacy (Rebranding To "Hive" In May 2024) | $100K | 2024-01 |
| Funding for Reporters for Animals International to run a support program for animal welfare investigators to to professionalize investigators and prevent burnout (paid to fiscal sponsor Anima International) | Reporters For Animals International | $100K | 2024-01 |
| Investing in meta-fundraising efforts to increase ACE’s counterfactual money influenced for the EAA movement | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) | $100K | 2025-01 |
| Project and staff expenses to work on corporate welfare washing in cage-free accountability in Brazil | FóRum Nacional De ProteçãO E Defesa Animal | $100K | 2024-07 |
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