Mission Statement

Our Unique Approach

• 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

• 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
• Prevent the next factory farming crisis by stopping the industrial farming of other invertebrates from scaling while building the welfare standards that will protect these animals regardless of industry growth
• 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

• farm sanctuaries and direct animal care,
• farm transitions,
• individual outreach,
• institutional meat reduction,
• alternative protein advocacy and development,
• and other areas already relatively well-supported by other funders.

Your Impact