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We’re excited to announce the most recent Motion Grants recipients! The response from animal advocates worldwide has been extraordinary, with 200 expressions of curiosity acquired in simply the primary three months of the 12 months.1 These devoted teams and people introduced compelling proposals for interventions designed to create significant change for animals around the globe.
Between June and July, we disbursed 24 grants totalling $835,478.57 to distinctive tasks and advocates who shall be advancing animal welfare throughout various contexts and areas. We have now additionally awarded extra grants, which shall be disbursed over the approaching months, so signal as much as our e-newsletter to remain up to date on who and what else we’re funding.
We prolong our heartfelt gratitude to our beneficiant donors, professional advisors2, and all of the candidates. Most significantly, we have a good time our profitable grantees and the very important work they’ll be endeavor!
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2025 grants in numbers and charts
We’re solely partway via the 12 months, and we count on to make dozens extra grants by the top of 2025, however we wished to share how our grantmaking is trending to date.
- 329 expressions of curiosity acquired as much as July 2025. Earlier than reviewing purposes in April, we acquired and assessed 200 expressions of curiosity and invited 95 of those organizations to use.
- 93 purposes acquired and assessed by July 2025.
- 31% purposes assessed have been awarded a grant.3
- 15% expressions of curiosity assessed have been awarded a grant.3
World
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 neighborhood and integrating evidence-based insect welfare info into coverage and apply. This grant offers basic working assist 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 via rigorous analysis and high-leverage interventions. This grant offers venture assist for Navigating AI Futures: Pathways for Farmed Animal Advocacy. This venture will study how AI and associated applied sciences might affect farmed animals, notably fishes and shrimp, in quickly intensifying farming areas comparable to Latin America and South and Southeast Asia. The analysis will determine high-risk tendencies 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, apply, and moral decision-making. This grant will fund the Bettering Farmed Fish Welfare at Slaughter by Reforming Pre-Slaughter Operations venture. This analysis goals to tell laws, animal advocacy, and the {industry} for more practical welfare interventions.
Consumer-Pleasant Advertising
Quantity awarded: $10,379.00
Grant Actions: This grant offers venture assist to Consumer-Pleasant Advertising, a company that gives Advertising 101 coaching and strategic advertising assist. 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 methods.
Anglo America
Nameless Grant
Quantity awarded: $20,000.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist 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 via outreach, analysis, and schooling, specializing in uncared for areas of animal struggling. This grant will assist the Wild animal struggling video course in Hindi venture. 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 cut back the struggling of farmed animals by facilitating the adoption of upper welfare practices via farmer coaching, technical help, and advocacy, aiming to transition farms away from intensive methods. The grant will assist the Construct Again Higher the Swine Trade: A Transition Away from Crates to Group Housing venture. 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 enlargement of industrialized manufacturing unit farming in India. This grant offers venture assist 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 concentrate on strengthening implementation within the Balaghat district to showcase scalable compliance, assist authorities adoption throughout Madhya Pradesh by formalizing partnerships and integrating welfare measures, and assist coverage by sharing implementation outcomes to tell future fish welfare reforms and institutionalize oversight.
Europe
Nameless Grantee
Quantity awarded: $35,500.00
Grant Actions: Basic assist grant to a company working to cut back farmed animal struggling via coverage reform.
Eurogroup for Animals
Quantity awarded: $25,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant will assist Eurogroup for Animals’ Insect Undertaking. This venture addresses the event of the insect-for-feed {industry} in Europe by specializing in regulatory obstacles, advocating for animal welfare and well being requirements, and selling consciousness of the {industry} as unsustainable. The grant will assist lobbying efforts, advocacy instruments, and techniques, and supply help to member organizations of their nationwide efforts towards insect farming enlargement.
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 offers assist 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 assist. CAP goals to extend political engagement and legislative initiatives, leading to new legal guidelines and insurance policies that instantly cut back the struggling of farmed animals and mainstream animal welfare as a authentic 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 via political and marketing campaign actions. This grant will assist the hiring of a campaigns supervisor to affect 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 assist investigations of salmon farms in Scotland. The findings shall be shared with media shops and animal advocacy organizations to assist elevate public consciousness of {industry} practices and promote extra knowledgeable dietary selections.
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 assist Alianima’s venture 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 selections. This grant offers venture assist for his or her Plant-Based mostly Commerce Present Initiative. This initiative will fund EVM’s participation in 4 main meals {industry} commerce reveals with their Plant Based mostly Pavilion, and their very own Vegan Enterprise Summit 2025, the place they’ll host a Plant Based mostly Expo. This work allows rising plant-based manufacturers to entry institutional patrons from main retail, restaurant, and hospitality chains, rising the visibility, accessibility, and desirability of plant-based merchandise in Mexico.
Compromiso Verde
Quantity awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Actions: This grant offers basic assist to Compromiso Verde, who work in Peru to remove merciless practices in industrial animal agriculture, with a concentrate on laying hen welfare. The group leads direct strain campaigns focusing on firms 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 via an impartial 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 venture 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 assist 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 cut back the struggling of farmed animals. This grant offers basic working assist 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 develop the Basis’s visibility and academic outreach.
Center East and North Africa
Animetrics
Quantity awarded: $31,872.00
Grant Actions: This grant offers basic assist funding to Animetrics, a analysis group specializing in addressing the necessity for rigorous, culturally-informed analysis to information animal advocacy within the World South. The grant funds will contribute to the operational prices for finishing analysis tasks 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 assist their company campaigns aimed 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 assist 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 via 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 primarily based in Kenya, devoted to selling the humane therapy and welfare of all animals throughout Africa via advocacy, schooling, 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 via the One Well being strategy, working to cut back and forestall the struggling of farmed animals via coverage advocacy in Ghana. This grant will assist SHARED’s venture on drafting nationwide necessary 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 via advocacy, analysis, schooling, consciousness, and coverage improvement. The grant is to assist the Cage-Free Consciousness and Sensitization Undertaking. This initiative will enhance hen welfare and promote cage-free poultry farming in Kenya via public consciousness campaigns, stakeholder engagement, advocacy and coverage assist, 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 evaluate 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 evaluate or decision-making course of in circumstances the place an actual or perceived battle of curiosity existed. For transparency, the next potential COIs have 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.
- 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 type, earlier than candidates full a full Motion Grants utility. We anticipate that this saved unsuccessful candidates greater than 200 hours, in addition to a big time saving for ACE employees.
- On this spherical, we sought professional 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 evaluate 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 acquired, and by the variety of expressions of curiosity acquired, respectively, within the previous grants spherical.
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