Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) carries out a range of strategies to help reduce the significant suffering endured by trillions of farmed and wild-caught aquatic animals. These are among the most neglected animals in animal advocacy despite being more numerous than all land animals combined. ALI develops strategic campaigns that are likely to bring both significant short-term benefits and longer-term systemic change to relieve the suffering of aquatic animals. They do this through successful engagement with a range of influential stakeholders throughout the supply chain, including policy-makers, retailers, and certifiers. ALI has a strong track record of success and has been able to help many animals at relatively little cost. For example, through their corporate outreach program, we estimate they have reduced the suffering of thousands of shrimps per dollar spent. ALI’s plans for 2025 and 2026 give us confidence that they would use donations in ways that likely create the most positive change for aquatic animals. ALI received Movement Grants from ACE in 2020 and 2024 and became a Recommended Charity in 2024.

Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği (ÇHKD) is the only organization working to improve the lives of the more than 109 million egg-laying hens and 680 million farmed fishes that suffer at any given time in food production systems in Türkiye. ÇHKD strategically develops programs that maximize the number of animals that can benefit by pushing for welfare improvements for egg-laying hens and farmed fishes. They do this by securing cage-free commitments from companies via corporate outreach and targeted pressure campaigns, and through field research and producer outreach for farmed fishes. ÇHKD measures their program successes effectively, is transparent about risks and limitations, and collaborates with other organizations to share best practices. ÇHKD’s programs have been able to help many animals at little cost; we estimate their work positively impacts around three hens per dollar and has the potential to be even more cost effective in the future. ÇHKD’s plans for how they’d spend additional funding across 2025 and 2026 give us confidence that they would use donations in ways that likely create the most positive change for egg-laying hens and farmed fishes. ÇHKD received a Movement Grant from ACE in 2021 and became a Recommended Charity in 2022.

Dansk Vegetarisk Forening (DVF) works to reform the food system and reduce animal product consumption, thereby reducing the immense suffering endured by the 47 million farmed animals (including 11 million farmed fishes) and 32 billion wild-caught fishes who are exploited for food production each year in Denmark. DVF has a clear overarching strategy that brings together their individual programs, with a long-term goal of creating systemic change. Their increasing focus on influencing funding and policy at the E.U. level makes their work potentially highly scalable, and means many more animals could be spared or helped as a result. We are particularly impressed by DVF’s focus on collaboration through the Danish Network for Plant Proteins and the Danish Center for a Plant-Based & Organic Future. DVF’s work has already benefited a substantial number of farmed animals and has strong potential to impact many more at relatively little cost. For example, we estimate that the charity’s lobbying work has influenced the Danish government to invest about $68 into developing the plant-based food sector per dollar spent. DVF’s plans for how they’d spend additional funding across 2025 and 2026 give us confidence that they would use donations in ways that are likely to create the most positive change for farmed animals. DVF received Movement Grants from ACE in 2020 and 2022, and they became a Recommended Charity in 2022.

Sinergia Animal carries out a range of short-term and long-term strategies to help reduce the significant suffering endured by farmed animals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru, and Thailand. At any one time, more than 800 million egg-laying hens are subjected to intensive farming systems in the countries where Sinergia works. Over 40 million pigs are intensively farmed in Brazil, where Sinergia carries out their pig welfare project. Sinergia’s strategically developed programs are likely to lead to significant benefits for egg-laying hens and farmed pigs, including in regions where the animal advocacy movement is currently relatively neglected. They sensitively tailor their campaigns to each country, setting a strong overarching agenda but granting country-specific teams autonomy to adapt that agenda to national contexts. They have a strong track record of productive engagement with relevant stakeholders through their corporate outreach campaign, especially with producers and retailers. Their programs have been able to help a substantial number of animals at relatively little cost. For example, we estimate that combined, their cage-free corporate campaigns, institutional meat reduction campaign, and pig welfare program could positively impact hundreds of animals per dollar spent. Sinergia’s plans for how they’d spend additional funding across 2025 and 2026 give us confidence that they would use donations in ways that likely create the most positive change for farmed animals. Sinergia Animal has been a Recommended Charity since November 2018.

The Humane League (THL) operates in the U.S., the U.K., and Japan, where they work to help farmed animals through advocacy and corporate outreach to improve farmed animal welfare standards. THL supports the growth of the global animal advocacy movement via the Open Wing Alliance (OWA), a coalition whose mission is to end the use of battery cages for the billions of hens worldwide who currently suffer in cramped conditions. THL works to improve farmed chicken welfare in the U.S. through corporate outreach, legislative outreach, and skill and network building. Their programs are highly likely to be impactful and reduce the suffering of billions of farmed animals, and the grants provided through the Open Wing Alliance are particularly cost effective. In 2014, THL was recommended in our first official round of ACE charity evaluations and has been renewed as a Recommended Charity ever since.