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We’re excited to announce the most recent Motion Grants recipients! We obtained an excellent response from animal advocates worldwide, with 447 expressions of curiosity submitted for this disbursement. From these, we invited and assessed 91 full purposes. After cautious evaluation, we’re proud to award $1,315,279 in grants to 25 initiatives and organizations working to cut back animal struggling throughout the globe.
We lengthen our heartfelt gratitude to our beneficiant donors, professional advisors, and all of the candidates. Most significantly, we have a good time our profitable grantees and the very important work they are going to be enterprise!
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We’re at the moment reviewing over 70 grant purposes from 36 international locations for the upcoming spherical of Motion Grants. You may assist assist this group of devoted advocates working to cut back animal struggling by making a donation right this moment.
Q1 2026 disbursement in numbers and charts
- 447 expressions of curiosity obtained, 6% of expressions of curiosity resulted in a grant
- 91 purposes assessed, 27% of purposes assessed have been awarded a grant
- 25 grants awarded
International
Animal Coverage Worldwide
Quantity awarded: $75,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for Animal Coverage Worldwide, which works to make sure that animal welfare requirements apply equally to imported and domestically produced animal merchandise. They function throughout New Zealand, the UK, and the European Union.
Bryant Analysis
Quantity awarded: $5,500.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for Bryant Analysisto attend business occasions and conferences, increasing the attain and affect of their work on various protein pet meals analysis, which addresses the numerous variety of farmed animals slaughtered for the pet meals business.
Faunalytics
Quantity awarded: $10,000.00
Grant Actions: Faunalytics empowers animal advocates with analysis, insights, and methods that maximize their effectiveness to finish animal struggling. This Venture assist grant shall be used to enhance the measurement and analysis of their packages.
Rethink Priorities
Quantity awarded: $35,624.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for the 2026 Animal Advocacy Technique Discussion board (AASF), a three-day convening of roughly 30 to 40 senior leaders and funders from throughout the farmed animal advocacy motion. The discussion board will produce a collaboratively developed set of priorities and proposals for high-impact areas in animal advocacy.
Nameless Grant
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for a company conducting international analysis and advocacy on rising meals and agricultural manufacturing methods.
The Mission Motor
Quantity awarded: $84,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for The Mission Motor, which helps animal advocacy organizations and funders enhance their influence by means of improved monitoring, analysis, and studying (MEL) practices.
Vegan Hospitality and Tourism Worldwide
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for Vegan Hospitality and Tourism Worldwide, which works to speed up the hospitality business’s transition away from animal-based merchandise in direction of plant-forward meals providers and vegan-friendly tourism throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Center East, and Africa.
Africa
Animal Advocacy Africa
Quantity awarded: $140,000.00
Grant Actions: Two-year normal assist grant for Animal Advocacy Africa, which builds advocate capability throughout the continent with a concentrate on farmed animal welfare, notably chickens and fish. The grant helps their profession exploration and advising packages, focused challenge incubation, alumni engagement, and core operations.
Animal Welfare League
Quantity awarded: $100,000.00
Grant Actions: Two-year normal assist grant for Animal Welfare League, an animal advocacy group based mostly in Ghana with initiatives throughout West and Southern Africa. Their main actions embody company outreach to safe cage-free egg sourcing commitments from hospitality and meals firms.
AWASH
Quantity awarded: $26,700.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for AWASH, which works straight with tilapia farmers in Ghana to enhance fish welfare. This grant will fund the growth section following their present pilot challenge, specializing in decreasing mortality and illness on tilapia farms.
Training for African Animals Welfare (EAAW)
Quantity awarded: $45,000.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for enhancing rooster welfare by means of farmer training, public consciousness campaigns, and the event of nationwide cage-free requirements in Tanzania. EAAW will work with poultry farmers to strengthen cage-free farming practices.
Lumera
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for Lumera, the primary farmed animal welfare group in Zambia. Launched in 2025, Lumera is operating a pilot challenge testing key assumptions about cage-free advocacy in Zambia, together with company campaigns to transition egg-laying hens out of battery cages.
RodentPlus
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for pioneering the usage of fertility management for humane administration of Mastomys natalensis (the natal multimammate mouse) in Nigeria. This analysis will conduct area trials of fertility management baits as a humane various to deadly rodent administration strategies.
Anglo America
Meals 4 Thought Improvements
Quantity awarded: $43,560.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for Improve Eating, an initiative to speed up plant-based transitions at US universities. The challenge engages scholar consultants, college members and eating leaders to construct an economical case for decreasing animal product procurement at their establishments.
Society for the Safety of Bugs
Quantity awarded: $55,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for the Society for the Safety of Bugs, which works to stop industrial-scale insect farming by means of legislative advocacy, growing regulatory prices for the insect farming business.
Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York College
Quantity awarded: $150,000.00
Grant Actions: Two-year challenge assist grant for the Wildlife Inclusive Native Improvement (WILD) Lab, a challenge of the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program. The WILD Lab serves as a nexus for producing new information, facilitating new insurance policies, and supporting advocacy efforts aimed toward enhancing the welfare of city wild animals.
Asia
Throughout Species Venture Indonesia
Quantity awarded: $14,495.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist for strengthening cage-free methods for laying geese in Indonesia. The challenge focuses on stopping the emergence of recent battery cage farms whereas enhancing the welfare of current cage-free farms by means of a farmer community and market engagement technique.
Scale Welfare
Quantity awarded: $55,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for Scale Welfare, a brand new group conducting analysis to establish high-impact interventions for farmed fish welfare within the Philippines and Vietnam.
Sentient Animals Vietnam
Quantity awarded: $38,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for Sentient Animals Vietnam, which works to enhance the welfare of geese in Vietnam. Their initiatives have interaction producers and company patrons in Vietnam’s duck egg and duck meat industries to protect and advance free-range egg and cage-free meat farming methods.
Europe
Centre for Aquaculture Progress
Quantity awarded: $6,000.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist to develop Operational Welfare Indicator (OWI) protocols for key European aquaculture species: rainbow trout, gilthead sea bream, and European sea bass. These standardized protocols will present aquaculture producers with sensible instruments for assessing and enhancing fish welfare.
Heart for Wild Animal Welfare
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant for the Heart for Wild Animal Welfare, which is creating wild animal welfare coverage and advocacy in Europe. They intention to function a proof of idea for coverage approaches that may be replicated internationally.
Farm Adaptation Community
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant supplies challenge assist for the Path to Plant Earnings pilot within the UK and Denmark, a monetary innovation mannequin that companions with banks, meals patrons, and livestock farmers to create financial pathways for transitioning to plant-protein crop manufacturing.
Nähtamatud Loomad (Invisible Animals)
Quantity awarded: $41,400.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist to determine a authorized ban on caging egg-laying hens in Estonia. The marketing campaign combines direct political advocacy, public mobilization, media campaigns, and investigative reporting on cage farming circumstances.
Nettverk for dyrs frihet
Quantity awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Actions: This normal assist grant will primarily fund a full-time marketing campaign coordinator centered on guaranteeing the implementation and enforcement of the business’s dedication to section out fast-growing rooster breeds by the tip of 2027.
Center East
International Meals Companions
Quantity awarded: $120,000.00
Grant Actions: Venture assist to provoke a cage-free program in three Center Japanese international locations: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. This represents the primary recognized cage-free advocacy effort within the area, working to enhance circumstances for over 300 million egg-laying hens.
Disclosures
To restrict the potential affect of conflicts of curiosity (COIs) involving the Motion Grants evaluation 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 evaluation or decision-making course of in circumstances the place an actual or perceived battle of curiosity existed. The place potential COI have been recognized, further steps have been taken by ACE to mitigate the chance that people related to ACE would profit from the grants. For transparency, the next potential COIs have been recognized:
- Kieran Greig, ACE board member, is an worker at Rethink Priorities.
- Jacob Peacock, ACE board member, labored as a contractor for Rethink Priorities in 2025.
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