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We’re excited to announce the newest Motion Grants recipients! The response from animal advocates worldwide has been extraordinary, with 200 expressions of curiosity obtained in simply the primary three months of the yr.1 These devoted teams and people offered compelling proposals for interventions designed to create significant change for animals world wide.
Between June and July, we disbursed 24 grants totalling $835,478.57 to distinctive initiatives and advocates who shall be advancing animal welfare throughout numerous contexts and areas. We’ve additionally awarded further grants, which shall be disbursed over the approaching months, so signal as much as our publication to remain up to date on who and what else we’re funding.
We lengthen our heartfelt gratitude to our beneficiant donors, skilled advisors2, and all of the candidates. Most significantly, we have a good time our profitable grantees and the very important work they’ll be enterprise!
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2025 grants in numbers and charts
We’re solely partway by means of the yr, and we anticipate to make dozens extra grants by the top of 2025, however we wished to share how our grantmaking is trending thus far.
- 329 expressions of curiosity obtained as much as July 2025. Earlier than reviewing purposes in April, we obtained and assessed 200 expressions of curiosity and invited 95 of those organizations to use.
- 93 purposes obtained and assessed by July 2025.
- 31% purposes assessed had been awarded a grant.3
- 15% expressions of curiosity assessed had been awarded a grant.3

International
Insect Welfare Analysis Society
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: The Insect Welfare Analysis Society (IWRS) is an academic-led analysis society based in March 2023, devoted to supporting the worldwide insect welfare analysis group and integrating evidence-based insect welfare info into coverage and observe. This grant supplies basic working help to the IWRS.
Rethink Priorities
Quantity awarded: $35,198.12
Grant Actions: Rethink Priorities, a think-and-do tank, improves the lives of people and non-human animals by means of rigorous analysis and high-leverage interventions. This grant supplies undertaking help for Navigating AI Futures: Pathways for Farmed Animal Advocacy. This undertaking will study how AI and associated applied sciences might influence farmed animals, significantly fishes and shrimp, in quickly intensifying farming areas akin to Latin America and South and Southeast Asia. The analysis will establish high-risk traits and strategic alternatives associated to AI-driven precision farming and automatic welfare monitoring, offering short-term suggestions for animal advocacy organizations, philanthropic foundations, and different researchers.
Welfare Footprint Institute
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: The Welfare Footprint Institute is a non-profit analysis group devoted to quantifying and assessing animal welfare to enhance coverage, observe, and moral decision-making. This grant will fund the Enhancing Farmed Fish Welfare at Slaughter by Reforming Pre-Slaughter Operations undertaking. This analysis goals to tell laws, animal advocacy, and the {industry} for simpler welfare interventions.
Consumer-Pleasant Advertising and marketing
Quantity awarded: $10,379.00
Grant Actions: This grant supplies undertaking help to Consumer-Pleasant Advertising and marketing, a company that gives Advertising and marketing 101 coaching and strategic advertising and marketing help. The funds will allow them to refine their course supply, present one-on-one and workshop-based consultancy, and help animal advocacy organizations in creating and implementing their advertising and marketing methods.
Anglo America
Nameless Grant
Quantity awarded: $20,000.00
Grant Actions: Normal help grant for a coverage advocacy group working to guard freshwater ecosystems and the animals that inhabit them.
Asia
Animal Ethics
Quantity awarded: $12,000.00
Grant Actions: Animal Ethics promotes respect for nonhuman animals by means of outreach, analysis, and training, specializing in uncared for areas of animal struggling. This grant will help the Wild animal struggling video course in Hindi undertaking. The funds shall be used to create and disseminate a Hindi model of their video course, making info on wild animal struggling, welfare biology, and animal ethics accessible to a wider Hindi-speaking viewers.
Asia Farming Options
Quantity awarded: $50,990.00
Grant Actions: Asia Farming Options works to scale back the struggling of farmed animals by facilitating the adoption of upper welfare practices by means of farmer coaching, technical help, and advocacy, aiming to transition farms away from intensive methods. The grant will help the Construct Again Higher the Swine Trade: A Transition Away from Crates to Group Housing undertaking. This initiative will transition yard and mid-sized pig farms within the Philippines from gestation crates to group housing methods, enhancing sow welfare and supporting sustainable practices.
Samayu in partnership with A Simply World
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: Samayu works on the intersection of animal welfare, public well being, and sustainability to cease the growth of industrialized manufacturing facility farming in India. This grant supplies undertaking help for Scaling Fish Welfare in India: From Coverage Breakthrough to Systemic Implementation. The funds will construct on the 2024 Fisheries Directive in Madhya Pradesh. Samayu will deal with strengthening implementation within the Balaghat district to showcase scalable compliance, help authorities adoption throughout Madhya Pradesh by formalizing partnerships and integrating welfare measures, and help coverage by sharing implementation outcomes to tell future fish welfare reforms and institutionalize oversight.
Europe
Nameless Grantee
Quantity awarded: $35,500.00
Grant Actions: Normal help grant to a company working to scale back farmed animal struggling by means of coverage reform.
Eurogroup for Animals
Quantity awarded: $25,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant will help Eurogroup for Animals’ Insect Challenge. This undertaking addresses the event of the insect-for-feed {industry} in Europe by specializing in regulatory boundaries, advocating for animal welfare and well being requirements, and selling consciousness of the {industry} as unsustainable. The grant will help lobbying efforts, advocacy instruments, and methods, and supply help to member organizations of their nationwide efforts towards insect farming growth.
Convergence Animaux Politique
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: Convergence Animaux Politique (CAP) is a French non-profit devoted to coordinating and empowering efficient lobbying for animal welfare, working with 25 accomplice NGOs. This grant supplies help for his or her political advocacy work to advertise farmed animal welfare in France. The funds will cowl wage and journey bills for advocacy, political monitoring, and accomplice NGO help. CAP goals to extend political engagement and legislative initiatives, leading to new legal guidelines and insurance policies that straight scale back the struggling of farmed animals and mainstream animal welfare as a legit political problem in France.
PAZ (Projet Animaux Zoopolis)
Quantity awarded: $19,237.00
Grant Actions: PAZ (Projet Animaux Zoopolis) is a French group devoted to defending animal pursuits by means of political and marketing campaign actions. This grant will help the hiring of a campaigns supervisor to influence native authorities (metropolis corridor) elections in France from September 2025 to March 2026, specializing in securing commitments towards pigeon culling, prohibiting leisure fishing practices like reside bait fishing, and supporting contraceptive strategies for rats.
Undercover Fish Collective
Quantity awarded: $20,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant will help investigations of salmon farms in Scotland. The findings shall be shared with media shops and animal advocacy organizations to assist increase public consciousness of {industry} practices and promote extra knowledgeable dietary decisions.
Latin America
Associação Alianima
Quantity awarded: $40,000.00
Grant Actions: Associação Alianima is a Brazilian non-profit devoted to enhancing the lives of farmed animals by banning merciless practices, selling accountability, and interesting in company outreach, public coverage advocacy, and societal engagement. This grant will help Alianima’s undertaking to advance fish welfare reforms in Brazil. The work will contain company negotiations to safe commitments on tilapia welfare, the creation of welfare booklets for salmon and shrimp, and ongoing dialogue with authorities ministries and Nationwide Congress members to advertise fish welfare insurance policies.
Asociación de Emprendedores Veganos de México
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: Asociación de Emprendedores Veganos de México A.C. (EVM) is devoted to lowering animal consumption in Mexico by accelerating the adoption of plant-based decisions. This grant supplies undertaking help for his or her Plant-Primarily based Commerce Present Initiative. This initiative will fund EVM’s participation in 4 main meals {industry} commerce exhibits with their Plant Primarily based Pavilion, and their very own Vegan Enterprise Summit 2025, the place they’ll host a Plant Primarily based Expo. This work permits rising plant-based manufacturers to entry institutional consumers from main retail, restaurant, and hospitality chains, growing the visibility, accessibility, and desirability of plant-based merchandise in Mexico.
Compromiso Verde
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant supplies basic help to Compromiso Verde, who work in Peru to eradicate merciless practices in industrial animal agriculture, with a deal with laying hen welfare. The group leads direct stress campaigns focusing on corporations that resist cage-free commitments, manages a nationwide volunteer platform, and engages in legislative efforts to determine cage-free manufacturing requirements. In addition they help producers in adopting cage-free methods and attaining certification by means of an unbiased physique.
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant helps the MIRA (Mapping, Informing and Elevating Consciousness) – Broiler Chickens Initiative by Fórum Animal, a non-profit group with 25 years of expertise in Brazil. The undertaking goals to safe the primary Higher Rooster Dedication (BCC) in Brazil. Grant funds shall be used for continued stakeholder engagement, planning a pilot manufacturing in compliance with BCC requirements, establishing a global alliance to help negotiations, and conducting a research on prices, challenges, and success tales associated to BCC implementation.
Fundación Veg
Quantity awarded: $20,000.00
Grant Actions: Fundación Veg is a global group working in Latin America to advertise plant-based diets and scale back the struggling of farmed animals. This grant supplies basic working help to additional their mission. The funding will assist strengthen the group’s inner construction and monetary sustainability, improve the adoption of plant-based diets, affect public coverage, and broaden the Basis’s visibility and academic outreach.
Center East and North Africa
Animetrics
Quantity awarded: $31,872.00
Grant Actions: This grant supplies basic help funding to Animetrics, a analysis group specializing in addressing the necessity for rigorous, culturally-informed analysis to information animal advocacy within the International South. The grant funds will contribute to the operational prices for finishing analysis initiatives centered on animal advocacy inside Muslim-majority areas and communities.
Oceania
Animals Aotearoa
Quantity awarded: $16,700.00
Grant Actions: Animals Aotearoa is devoted to enhancing the welfare of farmed chickens and aquatic animals in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This grant will help their company campaigns geared toward securing Higher Rooster Dedication (BCC) agreements from meals companies.
Mobile Agriculture Australia
Quantity awarded: $42,800.00
Grant Actions: Mobile Agriculture Australia is Australia’s main advocacy devoted to advancing mobile agriculture and enhancing the meals system by lowering farmed animal struggling and enhancing meals safety. This basic help grant will primarily fund the salaries of their CEO and COO. CAA works to speed up the viability, feasibility and desirability of mobile agriculture. They do that by means of industry-backed advocacy to speed up mobile agriculture’s path to market, and evidence-based communications initiatives to construct familiarity and belief within the applied sciences and merchandise.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa Community for Animal Welfare
Quantity awarded: $50,356.15
Grant Actions: Africa Community for Animal Welfare (ANAW) is a Pan-African non-governmental group based mostly in Kenya, devoted to selling the humane remedy and welfare of all animals throughout Africa by means of advocacy, training, animal rescues, and coverage reform. The grant funds shall be used to advocate for the adoption and implementation of a brand new Rooster Code of Apply for enhanced hen welfare in Nakuru County, Kenya.
SHARED
Quantity awarded: $49,746.30
Grant Actions: SHARED is a non-profit group devoted to fostering a sustainable future by means of the One Well being strategy, working to scale back and forestall the struggling of farmed animals by means of coverage advocacy in Ghana. This grant will help SHARED’s undertaking on drafting nationwide obligatory pre-slaughter beautiful laws for farmed chickens in Ghana.
Utunzi Animal Welfare Group
Quantity awarded: $45,700.00
Grant Actions: Utunzi Animal Welfare Group works to construct a extra compassionate Kenya for animals and other people by means of advocacy, analysis, training, consciousness, and coverage growth. The grant is to help the Cage-Free Consciousness and Sensitization Challenge. This initiative will enhance hen welfare and promote cage-free poultry farming in Kenya by means of public consciousness campaigns, stakeholder engagement, advocacy and coverage help, farmer capability constructing, and direct cage-free advocacy with main organizations.
Disclosures
To restrict the potential affect of conflicts of curiosity (COIs) involving the Motion Grants overview committee members and candidates, we adopted ACE’s ACE’s COI Coverage.
In accordance with this coverage, no ACE employees or Board members participated within the overview or decision-making course of in instances the place an actual or perceived battle of curiosity existed. For transparency, the next potential COIs had been recognized:
- Kieran Greig, ACE board member, is an worker at Rethink Priorities.
- Amy Odene, ACE board member, is married to an worker of Consumer-Pleasant Advertising and marketing.
- Vince Mak, ACE employees member, is on the Advisory Board of SHARED.
- Jacob Peacock, ACE board member, labored as a contractor for Rethink Priorities in 2025.
Footnotes
- In 2025, we launched an expression of curiosity kind, earlier than candidates full a full Motion Grants software. We anticipate that this saved unsuccessful candidates greater than 200 hours, in addition to a major time saving for ACE employees.
- On this spherical, we sought skilled recommendation from Aurelia Adhiambo, Wasseem Emam, Max Elder, Carolina Galvani, Brigitte Gothière, Luke Hecht, Olga Kikou, Emmanuel Marquez, William McAuliffe, Hannah McKay, Amy Odene, Abigail Penny, Sagar Shah, Harshdeep Singh, Moritz Stumpe, and Lynn Tan. We’re deeply grateful for the time and experience they generously shared with out compensation. We additionally want to thank Martijn Klop and James Özden on the Strategic Animal Funding Circle for his or her coordination throughout our respective grant overview processes.
- These figures are calculated by dividing the variety of grants awarded (29 grants awarded, of which 24 had been disbursed by the top of July) by the variety of purposes obtained, and by the variety of expressions of curiosity obtained, respectively, within the previous grants spherical.
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