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EA Animal Welfare Fund
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This is the homepage for the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund, a grantmaking body focused on reducing animal suffering. It is not directly related to AI safety but may be tangentially relevant through wild animal suffering reduction and emerging animal agriculture oversight.
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Summary
The Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) is an Effective Altruism-affiliated grantmaking fund that pools donor resources to identify and fund high-impact interventions reducing animal suffering globally. It prioritizes neglected species and regions, early-stage projects, and rigorous evaluation. Key focus areas include cage-free transitions, aquatic animal welfare, humane slaughter standards, and wild animal suffering reduction.
Key Points
- •AWF has recommended over $20 million in grants supporting animal welfare interventions globally.
- •Priorities include ending cage confinement for hens, improving aquatic animal welfare, and reducing wild animal suffering.
- •The fund explicitly avoids areas already well-funded, such as farm sanctuaries, alternative proteins, and individual outreach.
- •Open to global applications, AWF funds both early-stage and proven interventions that other grantmakers won't support.
- •Coordinated with other funders and recommended by Giving What We Can as a top-rated giving opportunity.
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We identify and fund the highest-impact opportunities to help animals, so your donations go furthest. Donate Donate Donate on every.org Recommended for donors outside the UK or Netherlands Donate on Giving What We Can Recommended for donors in the UK or Netherlands Apply for funding Impact
The Animal Welfare Fund has recommended over 20 million dollars' worth of grants that supported our grantees’ work and their successes, including: Establishing the field of shrimp welfare and reducing the suffering of billions
Read more Driving cage-free adoption in neglected, high-producing countries
Read more Driving policy change and legal protection for the most numerous farmed animals
Read more About the fund
01 Pooled resources 02 Global outreach 03 Rigorous evaluation 04 Continuous improvement 05 Strategic collaboration 06 Transparency and accountability We aggregate donations to create a shared fund that significantly exceeds individual donor capacity, enabling support for both smaller- and larger-scale initiatives. Focus areas
Mission Statement
We exist to reduce animal suffering by rigorously evaluating, funding, and catalyzing the most effective interventions for the world's most neglected animals, supporting the people and programs with the greatest potential to create lasting impact.
Our Unique Approach
We fill critical gaps in the animal advocacy ecosystem by:
Identifying and supporting work across regions and species where suffering is the largest yet remains neglected,
Funding promising early-stage projects and helping them get off the ground until other funders can take over,
Scaling proven work that other grantmakers won’t or can’t fund,
Pushing frontiers by actively seeking interventions to address emerging or newly recognised sources of suffering,
Deploying rigorous evaluation to ensure maximum impact per dollar,
Coordinating with other funders to strengthen the entire movement.
Current Priorities
More specifically, key long-term objectives we are working towards include (but are not limited to):
End the confinement of egg-laying hens in cages globally, focusing on accelerating this transition in the Global South
Improve the welfare of aquatic animals in the Global South by establishing and scaling on-farm welfare improvements
End the worst forms of death for billions of animals by making effective, humane slaughter for farmed shrimp the default standard in European and U.S. supply chains
Protect numerous and neglected species from intensive confinement systems as new forms of animal agriculture emerge
Reduce wild animal suffering at scale by validating and implementing cost-effective interventions in urban and agricultural settings
Improve farm animal welfare in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where the scale of production is the largest
What We Don't Fund
Areas where AWF does not expect to deliver additiona
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