Announcing our latest Movement Grant Recipients
We are excited to announce the latest Movement Grants recipients! We received an outstanding response from animal advocates worldwide, with 447 expressions of interest submitted for this disbursement. From these, we invited and assessed 91 full applications. After careful review, we are proud to award $1,315,279 in grants to 25 projects and organizations working to reduce animal suffering across the globe.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our generous donors, expert advisors, and all the applicants. Most importantly, we celebrate our successful grantees and the vital work they will be undertaking!
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Q1 2026 disbursement in numbers and charts
- 447 expressions of interest received, 6% of expressions of interest resulted in a grant
- 91 applications assessed, 27% of applications assessed were awarded a grant
- 25 grants awarded
Global
Animal Policy International
Amount awarded: $75,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for Animal Policy International, which works to ensure that animal welfare standards apply equally to imported and domestically produced animal products. They operate across New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
Bryant Research
Amount awarded: $5,500.00
Grant Activities: Project support for Bryant Researchto attend industry events and conferences, expanding the reach and influence of their work on alternative protein pet food research, which addresses the significant number of farmed animals slaughtered for the pet food industry.
Faunalytics
Amount awarded: $10,000.00
Grant Activities: Faunalytics empowers animal advocates with research, insights, and strategies that maximize their effectiveness to end animal suffering. This Project support grant will be used to improve the measurement and evaluation of their programs.
Rethink Priorities
Amount awarded: $35,624.00
Grant Activities: Project support for the 2026 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum (AASF), a three-day convening of approximately 30 to 40 senior leaders and funders from across the farmed animal advocacy movement. The forum will produce a collaboratively developed set of priorities and proposals for high-impact areas in animal advocacy.
Anonymous Grant
Amount awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for an organization conducting global research and advocacy on emerging food and agricultural production systems.
The Mission Motor
Amount awarded: $84,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for The Mission Motor, which helps animal advocacy organizations and funders increase their impact through improved monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practices.
Vegan Hospitality and Tourism Worldwide
Amount awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for Vegan Hospitality and Tourism Worldwide, which works to accelerate the hospitality industry’s transition away from animal-based products towards plant-forward food services and vegan-friendly tourism across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Africa
Animal Advocacy Africa
Amount awarded: $140,000.00
Grant Activities: Two-year general support grant for Animal Advocacy Africa, which builds advocate capacity across the continent with a focus on farmed animal welfare, particularly chickens and fish. The grant supports their career exploration and advising programs, targeted project incubation, alumni engagement, and core operations.
Animal Welfare League
Amount awarded: $100,000.00
Grant Activities: Two-year general support grant for Animal Welfare League, an animal advocacy organization based in Ghana with projects across West and Southern Africa. Their primary activities include corporate outreach to secure cage-free egg sourcing commitments from hospitality and food companies.
AWASH
Amount awarded: $26,700.00
Grant Activities: Project support for AWASH, which works directly with tilapia farmers in Ghana to improve fish welfare. This grant will fund the expansion phase following their current pilot project, focusing on reducing mortality and disease on tilapia farms.
Education for African Animals Welfare (EAAW)
Amount awarded: $45,000.00
Grant Activities: Project support for enhancing chicken welfare through farmer education, public awareness campaigns, and the development of national cage-free standards in Tanzania. EAAW will work with poultry farmers to strengthen cage-free farming practices.
Lumera
Amount awarded: $50,000.00
Grant Activities: Project support for Lumera, the first farmed animal welfare organization in Zambia. Launched in 2025, Lumera is running a pilot project testing key assumptions about cage-free advocacy in Zambia, including corporate campaigns to transition egg-laying hens out of battery cages.
RodentPlus
Amount awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Activities: Project support for pioneering the use of fertility control for humane management of Mastomys natalensis (the natal multimammate mouse) in Nigeria. This research will conduct field trials of fertility control baits as a humane alternative to lethal rodent management methods.
Anglo America
Food 4 Thought Innovations
Amount awarded: $43,560.00
Grant Activities: Project support for Upgrade Dining, an initiative to accelerate plant-based transitions at US universities. The project engages student consultants, faculty members and dining leaders to build a cost-effective case for reducing animal product procurement at their institutions.
Society for the Protection of Insects
Amount awarded: $55,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for the Society for the Protection of Insects, which works to prevent industrial-scale insect farming through legislative advocacy, increasing regulatory costs for the insect farming industry.
Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University
Amount awarded: $150,000.00
Grant Activities: Two-year project support grant for the Wildlife Inclusive Local Development (WILD) Lab, a project of the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program. The WILD Lab serves as a nexus for generating new knowledge, facilitating new policies, and supporting advocacy efforts aimed at improving the welfare of urban wild animals.
Asia
Across Species Project Indonesia
Amount awarded: $14,495.00
Grant Activities: Project support for strengthening cage-free systems for laying ducks in Indonesia. The project focuses on preventing the emergence of new battery cage farms while improving the welfare of existing cage-free farms through a farmer network and market engagement strategy.
Scale Welfare
Amount awarded: $55,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for Scale Welfare, a new organization conducting research to identify high-impact interventions for farmed fish welfare in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Sentient Animals Vietnam
Amount awarded: $38,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for Sentient Animals Vietnam, which works to improve the welfare of ducks in Vietnam. Their projects engage producers and corporate buyers in Vietnam’s duck egg and duck meat industries to preserve and advance free-range egg and cage-free meat farming systems.
Europe
Centre for Aquaculture Progress
Amount awarded: $6,000.00
Grant Activities: Project support 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 provide aquaculture producers with practical tools for assessing and improving fish welfare.
Center for Wild Animal Welfare
Amount awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Activities: General support grant for the Center for Wild Animal Welfare, which is developing wild animal welfare policy and advocacy in Europe. They aim to serve as a proof of concept for policy approaches that can be replicated internationally.
Farm Adaptation Network
Amount awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Activities: This grant provides project support for the Path to Plant Profits pilot in the UK and Denmark, a financial innovation model that partners with banks, food buyers, and livestock farmers to create economic pathways for transitioning to plant-protein crop production.
Nähtamatud Loomad (Invisible Animals)
Amount awarded: $41,400.00
Grant Activities: Project support to establish a legal ban on caging egg-laying hens in Estonia. The campaign combines direct political advocacy, public mobilization, media campaigns, and investigative reporting on cage farming conditions.
Nettverk for dyrs frihet
Amount awarded: $30,000.00
Grant Activities: This general support grant will primarily fund a full-time campaign coordinator focused on ensuring the implementation and enforcement of the industry’s commitment to phase out fast-growing chicken breeds by the end of 2027.
Middle East
Global Food Partners
Amount awarded: $120,000.00
Grant Activities: Project support to initiate a cage-free program in three Middle Eastern countries: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. This represents the first known cage-free advocacy effort in the region, working to improve conditions for over 300 million egg-laying hens.
Disclosures
To limit the potential influence of conflicts of interest (COIs) involving the Movement Grants review committee members and applicants, we followed ACE’s ACE’s COI Policy.
In accordance with this policy, no ACE staff or Board members participated in the review or decision-making process in cases where a real or perceived conflict of interest existed. Where potential COI were identified, additional steps were taken by ACE to mitigate the risk that individuals associated with ACE would benefit from the grants. For transparency, the following potential COIs were identified:
- Kieran Greig, ACE board member, is an employee at Rethink Priorities.
- Jacob Peacock, ACE board member, worked as a contractor for Rethink Priorities in 2025.
ACE is dedicated to creating a world where all animals can thrive, regardless of their species. We take the guesswork out of supporting animal advocacy by directing funds toward the most impactful charities and programs, based on evidence and research.
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