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Animal Welfare Fund

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Supports organizations working to improve animal welfare

$21M total

GrantRecipientAmountDate
Evaluating charities and promoting effectiveness in the animal movementAnimal Charity Evaluators$500K2018-04
39% of 2022 general operating expenses to build an academic field dedicated to wild animal welfareWild Animal Initiative$400K2022-07
General SupportRethink Priorities$309K2021-01
General SupportWild Animal Initiative$300K2021-01
General support for our activities in 2024 and 2025, amounts to 7.3% of 2024 expenditures and 14.3% of our planned 2025Wild Animal Initiative$300K2024-10
Support annual salaries of max 9 employees (6 FTE) and other expenses to advance invertebrate and wild animal researchRethink Priorities$296K2023-04
Costs for several projects to identify likely impactful, tractable interventions for wild animals & begin implementationRethink Priorities$253K2024-01
Wild animal welfare and invertebrate welfare researchRethink Priorities$250K2022-01
General support for 15 months to extend expiring staff contracts and hire new key positionsEqualia$250K2022-07
Funding would cover 24.8% of 2024 general operating expenses necessary to build an academic field of wild animal welfareWild Animal Initiative$217K2023-10
SWP works with stakeholders to reduce the suffering of farmed shrimps, with a focus on India and Southeast AsiaShrimp Welfare Project, Ltd$210K2022-10
Campaign budget to pressure Lidl and other retailers to produce broiler welfare policies in EuropeAnima International$200K2022-10
12 months of operational funding to build capacity and strengthen the global impact of the Aquatic Animal AllianceAquatic Life Institute$200K2022
Funding for strategic regranting to drive fulfillment of the 2025 cage-free corporate commitments in key regionsOpen Wing Alliance$200K2024-10
Funding & resources for 12 months to hold companies accountable for their cage-free and Better Chicken CommitmentsThe Humane League UK (THL UK)$200K2025-01
General SupportEqualia$190K2021-07
Salary & discretionary costs to secure 2 supermarket Better Chicken Commitments & legal protections for farmed fishesThe Humane League UK (THL UK)$190K2023-07
1-year funding to continue the capacity-building work through the pilot Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare FellowshipEffective Altruism Singapore$185K2022-01
12 months of operational funding to build capacity and strengthen the global impact of the Aquatic Animal AllianceAquatic Life Institute$180K2024-01
General SupportFish Welfare Initiative$170K2022-01
General SupportSinergia Animal$165K2021-01
Continuing work for increased farmed fish slaughter laws and halting UK salmon industry’s expansion, including onshoreAnimal Equality UK$165K2024-10
Funding 10% of 2022-2023 operating budget to support expanded globally-distributed teamAnimal Charity Evaluators (ACE)$160K2022-10
A 2 years plan to advance the legal protection of decapod crustaceans in ItalyAnimal Law Italia (ALI)$159K2022-07
1-year funding for movement building, corporate and cage-free campaigns in Latin America and Asia, and support rolesSinergia Animal$157K2022-07
Two years of operational costs for Animals Aotearoa, New Zealand’s primary charity for improving broiler welfareAnimals Aotearoa$139K2023-10
Launch campaigns targeting investors in insect farming and consider lobbying to slow the growth of the sectorInsect Welfare Project (Temporary Name)$135K2021-01
Providing 100 Travel Stipends for impactful advocates to attend the only farmed animal advocacy conference in AfricaAnimal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) International$133K2025-01
12-month funding for Cambridge EA's alt-protein field-building effortsCambridge Effective Altruism CIC$130K2022-01
A budget to support cage-free policy work in Ghana and recruiting cage-free farms in South Africa, Egypt, and MoroccoAnimal Welfare League$130K2024-10
Purchase 2 stunners for producers committing to stun a minimum. of 1.4k MT (~100 million) of shrimps/annum per stunnerShrimp Welfare Project, Ltd$130K2023-07
General SupportSentience Politics$125K2021-07
General SupportThe Humane League UK (THL UK)$119K2021-01
Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standardsThe Center For Responsible Seafood$117K2024-10
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)$105K2022-01
Progress the work of Animals Aotearoa, the only NGO working on chicken corporate welfare commitments in New ZealandAnimals Aotearoa$103K2021-10
2025 operations: Online outreach to target audience → Convert them to new effective FAW donors at www.farmkind.givingFarmKind$103K2024-10
General SupportEffective Altruism Singapore$100K2021-07
Costs to continue and expand culture-specific workshops for advocates to increase efficacy across Asia.Animal Alliance Asia$100K2022-01
12-month salary for new hires and other costs to increase capacity for cage-free campaigns and fish welfare outreachÇIftlik HayvanlarıNı Koruma DerneğI (Farm Animals Protection Association)$100K2022-01
Hiring for EU and Global Corporate Relations positionsThe Humane League UK$100K2019-01
Research on improving the welfare of wild animalsWild Animal Suffering Research, Via The Effective Altruism Foundation$100K2018-01
12-month salary to protect the foie gras ban and advance legislation to protect aquatic & fur animals in NYCVoters For Animal Rights$100K2022-07
Establish status of battery cage farming in 3 Southern Africa countries,campaigns in E.Africa and conference in W.AfricaAfrica Network For Animal Welfare (ANAW)$100K2022-10
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$100K2022-10
Funding to incorporate lessons learned from impact assessment into ACE’s strategy and operationsAnimal Charity Evaluators (ACE)$100K2023-10
Funding to cultivate a more coordinated and strategic farmed animal advocacy movement.Impactful Animal Advocacy (Rebranding To "Hive" In May 2024)$100K2024-01
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$100K2024-01
Investing in meta-fundraising efforts to increase ACE’s counterfactual money influenced for the EAA movementAnimal Charity Evaluators (ACE)$100K2025-01
Project and staff expenses to work on corporate welfare washing in cage-free accountability in BrazilFóRum Nacional De ProteçãO E Defesa Animal$100K2024-07
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