EA Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Grant

The EA Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Grant aims to enhance the welfare of nonhuman animals globally through strategic grants. It focuses on neglected regions, innovative research, and impactful advocacy, particularly for farmed and wild animals. The fund supports projects that alleviate suffering, promote alternatives to factory farming, and engage in policy advocacy. By contributing to this grant, you can help create a significant positive impact on animal welfare and support initiatives that are often overlooked.

The Animal Welfare Fund aims to effectively improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, by making grants that focus on one or more of the following:
Relatively neglected geographic regions or groups of animalsPromising research into animal advocacy or animal well-beingActivities that could make it easier to help animals in the futureOtherwise best-in-class opportunities
Additional information about the Animal Welfare Fund
The Animal Welfare Fund supports advocacy, research, and movement-building work aimed at improving the wellbeing of nonhuman animals, primarily farmed and wild animals. This includes corporate and policy advocacy, research, and the promotion of alternative products.
What problem is the Animal Welfare Fund working on?
The EA Animal Welfare Fund's mission is to alleviate the suffering of non-human animals globally through effective grantmaking. Their grants portfolio prioritizes interventions that can collectively have the highest impact and help the greatest number of animals. By contributing to the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF), you'll support grants focused on:
Reducing suffering and improving the lives of animals in factory farmsBringing factory farming to an endPositively affecting other groups of animals on a large scale (such as insects and wild animals, for example)Supporting these goals by researching and piloting novel approaches and interventions
What projects does the Animal Welfare Fund support?
The Fund focuses on projects that primarily address farmed animals, as well as projects that could affect other large populations of nonhuman animals.
Some examples of projects that the Fund could support:
Supporting farmed animal advocacy in AsiaAdvocating against the use of cruel practices within the industrial agriculture system, such as battery cages for egg-laying hensPolicy advocacy to increase government research and development (R&D) budget that goes to alternative proteinResearching ways to improve the welfare of invertebratesPolicy advocacy to increase government R&D budget that goes to alternative proteinMovement building in neglected countries and regions with large-scale animal farmingGrowing the field of welfare biology in order to improve our understanding of different ways to address wild animal suffering

Eligibility

EA Funds can make grants to individuals, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and other entities. You do not need to be based in the US or the UK to apply for a grant. If you are unsure whether you are eligible for a grant, please simply apply.While the Animal Welfare Fund often doesn’t provide grants greater than $50,000, applying for a larger amount won’t hurt your chance of receiving funding.The Animal Welfare Fund has a total character limit of 5,000 characters for the application, and we recommend staying well below the limit.Organizations that have previously received funding can submit up to 10,000 characters.

Ineligibility

It does not fund direct animal care, including sanctuaries, shelters, or working animal care. It also does not fund work focused primarily on pets, habitat preservation, or other more traditional animal welfare or environmental causes.