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Animal Welfare Fund

Billions of lives. A fraction of the funding.

Our Animal Welfare Fund backs exceptionally cost-effective interventions to reform and replace factory farming. Whether you care about reducing animal suffering, creating alternatives to factory farming, or designing better market incentives, join us in funding solutions for one of the most neglected causes in philanthropy.

What we do

Reform the world's most harmful food systems

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Over 88 billion land animals are slaughtered for food each year, often using methods that cause extreme suffering.

Despite the scale, less than 0.1% of global philanthropy addresses factory farming. The entire global movement of animal welfare advocates operates on less funding in a year than a single major meat company earns in two days.

That gap between the size of the problem and the resources dedicated to solving it is what makes this one of the most impactful places to give.

Our Animal Welfare Fund directs donor capital toward interventions with the strongest evidence of impact per dollar:

  • Corporate welfare campaigns
  • Humane technology
  • Regulatory reform
  • Alternative proteins

Three ways to direct your impact

You can direct your gift across three portfolio categories, or leave it unrestricted for the Fund to allocate where the need is greatest. Within each category, our Advisory Panel of specialist animal welfare evaluators identifies the most neglected, cost-effective opportunities at the moment of disbursement.

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Better conditions for farmed animals

Factory farming inflicts severe, sustained suffering on tens of billions of sentient beings.

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Your gift will help improve life for animals inside the system, through effective programs like corporate welfare campaigns, regulatory reform, and welfare technology.

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Better alternatives to factory farming

Livestock production is a major contributor to biodiversity loss and global greenhouse gas emissions, making it unsustainable for the planet.

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Your gift will help build the alternatives to animal farming, through alternative protein research, policy, and ecosystem building.

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Better market incentives

Disruptive technology and accelerated market solutions can make higher welfare the more profitable option.

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Your gift will help shift institutions and consumers toward practices that lower suffering without lowering profits.

Our Grants

Grant decisions are guided by an Advisory Panel of trusted animal welfare evaluators. Our grants include:

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Recipient
Grant
Amount
April 2024

Supporting Innovate Animal Ag's work championing the use of technology to promote animal welfare, including the adoption of in-ovo sexing machines in chicken hatcheries.

$88,548
January 2023

Supporting Wild Animal Initiative's work conducting research to understand the basic facts about wild animal welfare and investigate potential interventions to improve the lives of wild animals.

$50,000
January 2023

Supporting Fish Welfare Initiative's programs to improve the welfare of farmed fish, with co-benefits for disease control, food safety, and ecosystem health.

$50,000