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Animal Charity Evaluators is an effective altruism-aligned nonprofit that evaluates animal charities for impact. While not directly AI safety focused, it represents the broader EA ecosystem from which AI safety funding and organizational norms emerged, and shares methodological approaches with AI safety evaluation efforts.

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Summary

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is a US-based nonprofit founded in 2012 as a division of 80,000 Hours that evaluates animal charities for effectiveness and impact. It publishes annual charity recommendations to guide donors toward high-impact giving. ACE is part of the broader effective altruism movement, which also encompasses AI safety research and funding.

Key Points

  • •Founded in 2012 as Effective Animal Activism under 80,000 Hours/Centre for Effective Altruism, rebranded to ACE in 2013.
  • •Publishes annual charity recommendations in November, evaluating organizations by impact and effectiveness.
  • •Peter Singer, prominent EA philosopher, sits on the advisory board and has endorsed ACE's work.
  • •Represents the EA movement's application of rigorous cost-effectiveness analysis to charitable giving.
  • •Shares organizational lineage with AI safety-focused EA institutions like 80,000 Hours and CEA.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nonprofit evaluator of animal charities 
 Animal Charity Evaluators Abbreviation ACE Formation 2012 &#59; 14 years ago  ( 2012 ) Registration no. EIN  364684978 Legal status 501(c)(3) organization [ 1 ] Purpose Animal charity evaluation Location Walnut, California , U.S. [ 1 ] 
 Region served Global Executive Director Stien van der Ploeg [ 2 ] Website animalcharityevaluators .org Formerly called Effective Animal Activism 
 Animal Charity Evaluators ( ACE ), formerly known as Effective Animal Activism ( EAA ), is a US-based charity evaluator and effective altruism -focused nonprofit founded in 2012. ACE evaluates animal charities and compares the effectiveness of their different campaigns and strategies. The organization makes charity recommendations to donors once a year. Its stated purpose is finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. [ 3 ] 

 
 History

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 Animal Charity Evaluators was formed in 2012 as Effective Animal Activism, a division of 80,000 Hours , by the Centre for Effective Altruism . [ 4 ] It rebranded as Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) in 2013. [ 3 ] Australian philosopher Peter Singer sits on the organization's advisory board. [ 2 ] 

 From its inception, ACE annually published recommendations for charities to donate to based on their impact and effectiveness, under two categories: "top" and "standout". However, when it published its 2023 recommendations, it moved away from these categories, instead moving to only "recommended" charities. This was intended to more fairly represent the charities present and better support the animal advocacy movement. [ 5 ] 

 Recommendations

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 ACE publishes its recommended charities once a year in November, ahead of GivingTuesday . In 2025, they recommended ten charities: Animal Welfare Observatory, Aquatic Life Institute, Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği, Dansk Vegetarisk Forening , Good Food Fund , Shrimp Welfare Project, Sinergia Animal, Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira, The Humane League , and Wild Animal Initiative . [ 6 ] 

 Reception

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Marc Gunther reviewed ACE in a 2015 article for Nonprofit Chronicles , stating: [ 7 ] 

 [T]he work of Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is relevant to nonprofits of all kinds. As its name suggests and, on a very modest budget, ACE evaluates animal charities. Its work could inspire those who want to evaluate charities in other sectors—education, the environment, that arts, whatever … The point is, Animal Charity Evaluators is asking the right questions–the kind all nonprofits should be asking themselves.

 Peter Singer mentions ACE's work in his 2015 book The Most Good You Can Do and in an online article for Salon . He describes their recommendations as a form of "altruistic arbitrage ", picking the low-hanging fruits of animal activism, which he describes 

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