California · Public charity
Animal Charity Evaluators
Our mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. To do this, we conduct annual charity evaluations and recommend the most effective animal charities. We also provide grants to build and strengthen animal advocacy movement.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $52,560
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $319,077
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Animal Charity Evaluators funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $2.1M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $2.4M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.9M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.1M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.7M | 77% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $449k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Humane League | $2,397,150 | 9 | 5% |
| The Good Food Institute Inc | $1,784,624 | 8 | 8% |
| Wild Animal Initiative Inc | $1,385,834 | 7 | 25% |
| Faunalytics | $1,170,612 | 9 | 23% |
| Animal Equality | $575,236 | 5 | 16% |
| Compassion in World Farming Inc | $430,100 | 8 | 7% |
| New Harvest Inc | $404,102 | 3 | 15% |
| New Roots Institute | $390,045 | 5 | 6% |
| Vox Media LLC | $385,187 | 4 | n/a |
| Dharma Voices for Animals | $348,402 | 6 | 19% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Animal Charity Evaluators supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Humane America Animal Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Tipping Point Private Foundation · A Well-Fed World · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Greenbaum Foundation · Karuna Foundation · Aceso Foundation Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40
How this is measured
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About Animal Charity Evaluators
- How much does Animal Charity Evaluators give?
- Animal Charity Evaluators reported 21 itemized grants totaling $2,131,780, out of $4,648,786 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Animal Charity Evaluators fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (62%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Animal Charity Evaluators's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Humane League ($2.4M), The Good Food Institute Inc ($1.8M), Wild Animal Initiative Inc ($1.4M).
- Does Animal Charity Evaluators fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Animal Charity Evaluators?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Quinn Foundation, Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc, Humane America Animal Foundation.
- Where is Animal Charity Evaluators based?
- Animal Charity Evaluators is based in CA.
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