We’re ready for a kinder world, so we’re funding the people that are making it happen.
Our Mission.
We envision a world where it’s widely understood that animals deserve moral consideration as individuals.
Our mission is to empower people to reorient our society into one that is more just in its consideration of animals. We act through financial support, thought leadership and seeding new organizations.
We aspire to achieve the following in the next 20 years:
Replace animals and animal products within the food system in the United States.
Enshrine the basic rights of life and liberty for non-human animals into our dominant political institutions.
Transform cultural practices, behaviors and norms to better reflect the truth: that animals are beings that are here for their own purposes, not ours.
We have 5 core values that contributes to how we approach the people that we fund.
Please see our approach below.
Veganism and food systems transformation
We believe that the regular practice of consuming animal-based foods is the primary obstacle to our vision. We prioritize projects which recognize the centrality of the food issue and behave accordingly.
Movement-focused approach
We recognize that the scale of our vision is large, and achieving it will require sustained pressure. Too often, good ideas turn into actions which fade away into exhaustion, whether personal, financial, or through lack of social cohesion. To that end, we put priority on projects which are focused on increasing the capacity, endurance, and power of our movement.
Bold, strong and uncompromising
We believe it’s important to treat all people with respect, whether they agree with us or not. To this end, we feel it’s important to be honest towards all parties about what we stand for. We don’t support watering down or compromising on our core values, and we encourage projects that take bold stances that honor the urgency and necessity of our mission.
Cultural change
We believe that changing the dominant culture of our society is the essence of our mission, and is an end in itself. However, it is less visible and less obvious when it’s happening. For these reasons, we feel that cultural change is a neglected area within our movement and are excited by the wide-open potential of projects that focus on culture.
Levers of power
We believe that power can be exercised for good, but concentrated power can easily lead to corruption and apathy. We are open to leveraging power in various forms. Centralized power (political, legal) is appropriate for enforcing negative rights, including a non-human animal’s right to life and liberty or the prevention of ecological destruction. Decentralized power (individual choices, grassroots organizing, non-violent direct action, economic power) is more appropriate for transforming culture. We’re excited about projects that understand and leverage the role of power in their theory of change.
Our Grantees
Here's a non-exhaustive list of individuals and organizations we have supported
Building a New Animal Freedom Movement
Pax Fauna exists to bring about a Nonviolent grassroots mass movement to end animal agriculture. With cutting-edge research, we can make the movement smarter, louder, and more collaborative than ever.
Non-Violent Direct Action for Animals
Direct Action Everywhere is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists. DxE uses disruptive protests and non-violent direct action tactics, such as open rescue of animals from factory farms.
Working towards a vegan Israel
We are working to raise awareness of the great demand for vegan consumerism among businesses. In this way, we encourage businesses to recognize the vegan consumer and allow him a variety of vegan-friendly products in an accessible way.
Equity. Sustainability. Rights.
We’re a public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action on issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainability. A strong commitment to ensuring and expanding equity and rights.
Global Dietary Guidelines Campaign
A non-governmental organisation that works in the field of food system change on four continents with nine offices. The organisation's stated mission is to reduce the consumption of animal products by 50% by 2040, to be replaced by plant-based or cultured alternatives.
Holding Industry Accountable to the Truth
A socially conscious collective of lawyers and advocates with a unique policy-driven approach to impact litigation. We work to hold large corporations accountable for actions that threaten public health, animals, workers, and the environment.
Digital Disruptors for Animals
A diverse community of passionate vegan activists from all around the world, volunteering our time and skills towards the animal protection movement. We build free technology and offer free services with the goal of reducing or stopping the mass amounts of suffering caused by factory farming.
Building a Social Movement for Animals
Animal Think Tank’s mission is to support the building of a broad-based anti-speciesist movement that has the power, resilience and longevity to ensure all individual animals have their rights to life, liberty and the security of person protected in UK law and embraced by society.
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Yes. Our mission is to end all forms of animal exploitation, which includes any use of animals for food.
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Our primary focus is the United States. However, we will consider grantees elsewhere when the work can be used as a model, or when there are spillover effects into the U.S.
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We process grant applications on a quarterly basis (typically, at the end of each calendar quarter). At most, expect a 4-month turnaround.
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We can make transfers via Paypal, wire transfer, or bitcoin.
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Most of our grants are between $25,000 and $250,000. We occasionally make smaller grants as well.
Ready to get started?
Apply and let’s see if we’re a match, we’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Please note that we receive a large amount of application every month and are unable to respond to each one, but we do look at all of them!