Farm Animal Welfare Grants

Farm Animal Welfare Grants

Funder: The Navigation Fund

Status: Active

Geographic Scope: International; focuses on changing dominant institutions globally

Mission: Support initiatives to elevate the moral relevance of farm animals in major institutions, alleviate their suffering, and replace industrial animal agriculture with a dominant food system that does not rely on animals.

Focus Areas:

1. Institutional Impact

• Directly change policies and practices of institutions (food corporations, government, legislation, significant public institutions)
• Build policy momentum

2. Movement Power

• People Power and Disruptive Capacity: Mobilize and organize people to influence institutional decision-makers
• Narrative Influence: Influence important conversations and how farm animal issues are framed with key audiences
• Policy and Electoral Capacity: Change institutional policies and increase importance of animal issues in political sphere

3. Target Audiences

• Youth: High school and college students actively engaged in movement
• Elites: Cultural and political decision-makers and leaders; movement allies in decision-making positions

4. Capacity Building

• Operational support, training, strengthening movement cohesion and collaboration

5. New Funding

• Bring new funding into farm animal movement (major giving, monthly giving, bequests)

6. Innovation and Experimentation

• New or underfunded approaches addressing priorities
• Solutions in important regions that currently seem less tractable

What They Fund:

Unrestricted grants

Project-based funding

Multi-year grants

Fiscally sponsored projects and international charitable organizations

What They Don't Fund:

Individual diet change

Farm sanctuaries and direct animal care

Institutional plant-based advocacy, incubation programs, alternative proteins (currently not prioritized)

Grant Cycles: Three per year

Q2 (March-June)

Q3 (July-September)

Q4 (October-December)

Most grants funded in Q2 and Q3, finalized before December

Occasionally consider time-sensitive proposals outside cycles

Program Officer: Jesse Marks

Contact: grants@navigation.org

Overhead and Indirect Cost Policy: Available on website