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Giving Fund:
Improving Animal Welfare

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Our Giving Fund: Improving Animal Welfare is the most flexible way to support top animal welfare organizations. Sometimes time-sensitive opportunities arise that require quick action. At other times, organizations need certainty in their funding streams to hire new staff and launch new campaigns and programs.


We use the donation fund to support the most promising initiatives of highly effective animal welfare organizations. We decide on the allocation of funds every six months in order to be able to respond flexibly to the needs of the organizations we support. To this end, we work closely with the EA Animal Welfare Fund and are guided by its specific recommendations.

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Why choose a Giving Fund at all?

The donation fund is the easiest way to maximize the impact of your donation. Together with our reviewers and other external experts, we relieve you of the decision of having to choose between different effective organizations that work effectively for greater animal welfare. If you are interested in making a regular donation, the fund ensures that you are supporting the most promising initiatives at any given time without having to regularly review or update your donation. You can find more information in our article “What are donation funds?”.

How does the Giving Fund maximize your impact?

  • It supports programs that we and our partners have identified as particularly promising and effective at the time, but which we do not recommend as a top organization - for example because the program is a highly effective but time-limited initiative.
  • It grants funds for urgent, time-critical projects.
  • If you have Effektiv Spenden you can deduct your donation from tax in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and therefore donate even more generously.

How do we decide who the Giving Fund supports?

Our Giving Fund: Improving Animal Welfare is based on the EA Animal Welfare Fund. Together with their fund managers, we decide on the allocation of funds every six months in order to be able to respond flexibly to the needs of the most effective animal welfare organizations. In addition to our top organizations, we also consider other projects or organizations that are particularly promising and effective, but which we do not (yet) present as separate recommendations on our platform. This is also important because it allows the fund to support smaller but highly effective initiatives and projects that cannot be presented as individual recommendations on our platform due to their small size or time limit. Effektiv Spenden due to their small size or time limit.

In the past, as part of this donation fund, in addition to the EA Animal Welfare Fund also with Animal Charity Evaluators,, Focus Philanthropy and other international experts.

Whom have we supported so far?

Allocation of funds from H2/2025

We have allocated the funds from Germany and Switzerland as follows:

  • Sinergia Animal (approx. € 476,000): Animal welfare in Southeast Asia and South America, in particular through corporate campaigns
  • The Humane League (approx. € 476,000): Corporate campaigns for phasing out particularly cruel forms of husbandry

The funds from Austria (approx. € 180,000) also went to The Humane League for a training project for activists.

You can find out more in our Blogpost experience.

Allocation of funds from H1/2025
  • OBRAZ - Obránci zvířat (€137,400.00): is a leading Czech organization advancing the legal recognition of animals as sentient beings and effecting systemic change through legislative reform, public mobilization and corporate outreach.
  • Animal Welfare Observatory (€86,500): The Animal Welfare Observatory advocates in Spain for better living conditions for broiler chickens. Thanks to AWO’s efforts, 6 of the largest supermarket chains—including Carrefour, DIA, and Eroski—have already committed to higher animal welfare standards.
  • International Council for Animal Welfare (ICAW) (€128,477.53): is one of the few organizations to have made significant progress on shrimp welfare, including getting major UK retailers to commit to the abolition of eyestalk ablation (cutting off the eyestalks to make shrimp lay more eggs) and the introduction of electrical stunning before killing.
  • Humánny Pokrok (€51,000.00): is a Slovakian organization that works for the welfare of farm animals through corporate campaigns, political advocacy, investigations and building the animal welfare movement.
  • Sinergia Animal (21.500 €): Animal welfare in Southeast Asia and South America, in particular through corporate campaigns

You can find out more in our Blogpost experience.

Allocation of funds from H2/2024
  • Sinergia Animal (€286,000): Animal protection in Southeast Asia and South America, primarily through corporate campaigns
  • The Humane League (€180,000): Corporate campaigns to end particularly cruel forms of animal farming
  • Animal Policy International (€55,000): Policy work to apply local animal welfare standards to imports, especially in New Zealand and the United Kingdom

The donations were forwarded to the organizations in April 2025. You can find more details in our Blogpost experience.

Allocation of funds from H1/2024

The donations were forwarded to the organizations in October 2024.

Allocation of funds from H2/2023

The donations were forwarded to the organizations between February and April 2024.

Allocation of funds from H1/2023

Grants were made in August 2023.

Allocation of funds from Q4/2022

Grants were made in February 2023.