Supporting the animal advocacy movement in relatively neglected interventions or regions. April 2019 round focused on capacity building and legal advocacy. Nov 2019 evenly split between capacity building, legal and policy work, influencing public opinion, and influencing industry, plus a few grants for building alliances. See guidelines for detail.
Priority is for carefully-planned individual or collaborative projects with clear goals that: reduce (or promote the reduction of) any form of exploitation of, or cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose. FAQ
All grants are $1000
Apply anytime. Apply by first Tuesday of the month; decisions made the following Sunday.
connect you with highly-skilled volunteers ready to lend their expertise and provide capacity support in areas like marketing, IT, finance, and fundraising.
Animal protection, environment, human rights, with a focus on long-term change. Funds non-violent direct action, aid and support to refugees and animal shelters, animal rights campaigning, sanctuaries, etc. Most recipients have annual budgets of less than £250,000 and are run entirely or predominantly by volunteers. Detailed guidelines and FAQ here.
Typically £2,000 - 4,000 per project.
Range is £100 - 10,000.
Co-Impact's Foundational Fund supports collaborative systems change efforts in education, health, and economic opportunity for people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Wildcrowd is a not for profit crowdfunding and volunteering website just for animal welfare, conservation and environmental charities. Visit us now to see how you can make a difference to the causes you care about https://www.wildcrowd.org/
To advance animal advocacy through intellectual or artistic expression. Funds academic or artistic projects that raise public awareness about animals. Project categories: creativity; research; performance. See application checklist and detailed guidelines.
A few hundred to a few thousand dollars
Accepts applications December 1 through January 31 each year
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 animals
Promising research into animal advocacy or animal well-being
Activities that could make it easier to help animals in the future
Otherwise best-in-class opportunities
A donor-initiated form to request funds to fight factory farming and reduce meat consumption from members of Farmed Animal Funders (FAF) and expose FAF members to new initiatives they otherwise might not be aware of
FIAPO member grant program
Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations
Funds research. See list of RFPs for priority areas. Also funds proposals that "promote the reduction and elimination of animals from the human food system."
Any, but typically between "several thousand to 30,000 USD"
Some RFPs have May 1 deadlines; fund accepts applications year-round within focus areas.
The FSI provides a range of free and affordable services for small charities. In 2018/19, we delivered over 4,400 learning opportunities, worth over £3m (based on equivalent value). All of our support is free or heavily subsidised and tailored for small charities – meaning it’s accessible and relevant to all of our members.You must join as an FSI member first to access these services.
Fueling Advocates offers grants to non-profit groups to help them use academic research to bolster their work. Tiny Beam also offers grants to universities and research institutions for academic research on factory farming in low- and middle-income countries. More here.
Supports work in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia towards a sustainable, inclusive agricultural transformation—one that creates economic opportunity, respects limits on natural resources, and gives everyone equal access to affordable, nutritious food
Program or general support. Priorities include: young/new orgs with clearly identified goals for whom new/incremental funding will make significant difference; grassroots orgs; new programming at established orgs with diverse leadership teams.
None stated
None stated
info@glasswallsyndicate.org or via online contact form
Vegan advocacy, farmed animal welfare campaigns, public awareness, meat-free challenges. Seed funding, and capacity building and networking opportunities with a focus on India, Mexico, Brazil. See guidelines for detail.
up to $1K for initial grants; opportunities for larger, follow up grants for farmed animal advocacy work
"Offers both physical as well as financial support during moments of crisis - when animals and people need us the most.
Please email IFAW’s Disaster Response team and describe your organization, the emergency, and the proposed response. Once you submit, the team will review your request and respond within two weeks."
Email: disasterresponse@ifaw.org
- Examples of man-made disasters (but not limited to): political conflict, financial crisis, large scale cruelty case.- Examples of natural disaster
Educating and inspiring communities to eat more planet-friendly foods. Promote and expand access to climate-friendly foods, with a focus on initiatives that serve and represent historically marginalized communities.
To advance the welfare of animals, particularly marine fauna, through practical action and training, education on anthropogenic threats, and scientific research. See guidelines for detail.
Community building, organizing, and resilience building
Education and public-awareness raising
Corporate and govt advocacy & engagement
Mission-aligned activists whose work contributes to a world where animals are respected, protected, and free. Individuals or organizations with a clear strategy to create lasting structural change by reforming our food system into one that is healthy, sustainable, equitable, and just. Especially interested in applicants who operate within a clear racial justi
2020 and 2021 grants ranged from $5K - $30K
Not currently accepting applications; sign up on website to receive updates about the next funding round.
Growing a movement for plant-based approaches for eating. Shedding light on the cruel and destructive practices in industrialized animal agriculture. Supporting tech-enabled approaches for reductions in farm animal suffering.
Foundation providing support to qualified scientists and students, partners and programs through grants for research, innovation and training programs aimed at the one-health approach
The Open Wing Alliance provides one-year grants of up to USD 50,000 in support of institutional cage-free and broiler welfare campaign work. We do not currently fund projects outside of this scope. Due to our non-profit status, we are unable to fund legislative work or activities. We do not provide funds for the operation of cage-free facilities or for any projects that involve the farming of animals.
Institutional cage-free and broiler welfare advocacy and campaigns, and related expenses. Does not fund legislative work. Most grants fund staff positions (i.e. salary). Renewal grants are eligible for general support. Guidelines here.
Up to $50K for groups that have never received a program grant; up to $100K for groups that have previously received a grant
Farm animal advocacy, particularly legislative or corporate advocacy efforts focusing on institutional change. Seed funding, and capacity building and networking opportunities in India, Mexico, Brazil. See guidelines for detail.
Corporate engagement & institutional outreach, large-scale awareness campaigns, events, research or public policy, general support, unmet regional niches or other effective advocacy. Priority for projects outside the UK, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, South Africa, US.
$10K - $30K
Mar 1, Jun 1, Sept 1, Dec 1 Applications due by 1 a.m. Pacific time
regranting to support initiatives in Asia in partnership with international grant-making organisations.
for the-ground advocates and groups that are People of the Global Majority, and other marginalised persons, and preference organisations that are led by women and gender minorities in leadership roles, and regions that currently receive less support.
Each year they chose a specific focus area for grants
Quantitative or qualitative research. "To promote the collection of sound empirical knowledge with which to build fact-driven, evidence-based animal law and policy reform for the benefit of nonhuman animals".
$1,000 - $4,500
Most recent deadline March 31, 2022 at midnight Pacific time
For questions and/or to submit application: alp@law.ucla.edu
Strategic Animals Funding circle is a group of impact-focused donors who support promising animal-focused nonprofits with strategic funding.
Their funding interests in animal welfare area are:
- Funding cost-effective welfare-focused interventions
- Supporting plant-based innovations
- Fueling movement building in neglected geographic regions
Grants cycle: Held twice per year in 3 part cycle (in Spring and beginning of fall)
They contribute at least $100,000 per year to farmed animal advocacy
Fully plant-based feeding and farming programs, advocacy, and community-building that promote the benefits of plant-based food choices and policies. Support feeding programs for hunger relief and racial/social justice advocacy.
We are a global grantmaking firm that amplifies just food systems and accelerates alternatives to industrial animal agriculture by strengthening frontline organizations and by connecting impact-driven donors with food justice advocates across the world & optimizing grantmaking efficacy.
Through its Research and Project Awards, UFAW aims to encourage high quality research that is likely to lead to substantial improvements in animal welfare.
Through its Research and Project Awards, UFAW aims to encourage high quality research that is likely to lead to substantial improvements in animal welfare.
Up to £3,500
Ongoing
Vegan Grants - Ask us anything! | AFAD 2024 Viet Nam
Seed funding grants for outstanding, and effective, animal rights activism! Specifically we're looking for individual or grassroots groups whose primary purpose is to help reduce suffering for non-human farmed animals.'
Up to $1,000 in seed funding. All grants also include SquareSpace website subscription, professional design creation (logos, social media elements, icons, etc.), professional content creation, monthly advisory calls (re: tech, marketing, strategy, etc.)
Vegan advocacy and Diet Change specific. Corporate engagement & institutional outreach, large-scale awareness campaigns, events, research or public policy, general support, unmet regional niches or other effective advocacy. Priority for projects outside the UK, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, South Africa, US.
Longer-term projects, rather than one-time events, broader audience reach or project builds connections to target audience and are planned with specific implementation timelines. Guidelines and eligibility
varies: $1,000 to $50,000 (typically $5K-10K)
January 16,
April 15, July 15, October 15
Online campaign grants have closed for 2022; next open Jan. 2023
Longer-term projects, rather than one-time events, broader audience reach or project builds connections to target audience and are planned with specific implementation timelines
"Naturewatch Foundation is making £10,000GBP available to fund the World Animal Day Grant. The trustees are open to support more than one project with the funding. Comparative information on costs between different countries will be taken into consideration.
The Grant is restricted to applications by World Animal Day Ambassadors (https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/ambassadors/) for projects being undertaken in their own country by the organisation they work for which must be a registered, not fo
Per guidelines: developing animal advocacy groups in Eastern Europe. Fund full-time positions for animal rights organizations in 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkan peninsula and the Caucasus and Baltic regions. FAQ
1000 Euros per month for one year
Annually in May. (Last application period was May 7-25, 2021)