
FundsAnimal Welfare Fund
Animal Welfare Fund
We identify and fund the highest-impact opportunities to help animals, so your donations go furthest.
Impact
The Animal Welfare Fund has recommended over 20 million dollars' worth of grants that supported our grantees’ work and their successes, including:
About the fund
01Pooled resources02Global outreach03Rigorous evaluation04Continuous improvement05Strategic collaboration06Transparency 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
The Fund focuses on projects that primarily address farmed animals, as well as projects that could affect other large populations of nonhuman animals.
Examples of projects that the Fund could support:
- Supporting farmed animal advocacy in Asia
- Advocating against the use of cruel practices within the industrial agriculture system, such as battery cages for egg-laying hens
- Policy advocacy to increase government research and development (R&D) budget that goes to alternative protein
- Researching ways to improve the welfare of invertebrates
- Policy advocacy to increase government R&D budget that goes to alternative protein
- Movement building in neglected countries and regions with large-scale animal farming
- Growing the field of welfare biology in order to improve our understanding of different ways to address wild animal suffering
Learn more about scope and limitations of EA Funds.
Featured grants with outstanding outcomes
People for Animals Uttarakhand and Cage Free Free Range Poultry Producers Association
$58,650
2025 Q1
Training of Trainers (5-day) in India to equip key stakeholders with best practices in cage-free egg farming
$58,650
2025 Q1
The Center for Responsible Seafood
$117,000
2024 Q4
Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standards
$117,000
2024 Q4
Animal Welfare League
$130,000
2024 Q4
A budget to support cage-free policy work in Ghana and recruiting cage-free farms in South Africa, Egypt, and Morocco
$130,000
2024 Q4
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
$100,000
2024 Q3
Project and staff expenses to work on corporate welfare washing in cage-free accountability in Brazil
$100,000
2024 Q3
Payout reports
Payout date
Total grants
No. of grantees
Payout report
2025 Q3
$1,351,867
13
2025 Q1
$1,209,017
13
2024 Q4
$1,012,822
11
2024 Q3
$2,438,266
37
2024 Q1
$7,079,301
109
Payouts over time
Applications
Why donate to this fund?
01The scale of animal suffering is immense02Funding to address this Issue remains critically limited03Our fund maximizes the impact of your contribution
Annually, hundreds of billions of vertebrate animals are subject to factory farming. Roughly 83 billion terrestrial farmed animals are raised and slaughtered each year, as well as ~124 billion farmed fish. Farmed invertebrate animals (for example, shrimp and insects) number in the trillions.
Experts now agree that numerous species of animals are conscious and capable of feeling pain. Current practices within animal agriculture are likely to cause extreme suffering over the course of animals’ lives. Furthermore, hundreds of trillions of wild animals exist, many of which likely experience significant suffering that could be reduced through human intervention.
Why you might choose not to donate to this fund
01You don’t support incremental welfare improvements02You have a preference for specific interventions or species
Thus far, much of the Fund’s grant money has gone toward work on reducing farmed animal suffering through positive yet incremental changes. This is not an exclusive focus since we have also supported interventions that aim to be more systemic (like policy advocacy) and that reduce demand for animal products (like advocacy to increase investment in alternative protein). However, if you believe that it is wrong to support incremental welfare improvements, some of the Fund’s grants may not be a good match for your worldview.
Fund managers

Karolina Sarek
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Chair

Zoë Sigle
Farmed Animal Funders
Fund Manager

Urszula Zarosa
Fund Manager

Renata Scarellis
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Manager

Neil Dullaghan
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Manager
Fund advisors

Lewis Bollard
Fund Advisor

Catherine Low
Fund Advisor

Aurelia Adhiambo
Fund Advisor

Kieran Greig
Fund Advisor