“Strategic Animals Funding Circle - Results from first two rounds” by Martijn Klop, Joey🔸, JamesÖz 🔸

The Strategic Animal Funding Circle just finished its first two rounds of grantmaking, and we ended up giving ~$900,000 across 16 organisations. Below is some brief reasoning behind why we were excited about these grants and broad factors that resulted in us not granting to other organisations. Overall we were pretty excited about the quality of applications we got and feel optimistic the circle will continue to run/deploy more in the future. At the bottom of this post, you can find more information about the next round, how to apply and how to join as a donor. Top four reasons we ruled out applications Unclear theory of change The most common reason an organisation was ruled out was for unclear theory of change. This has come up with other funding circles’ explanation copied from a prior writeup we made “Some applicants do not share sufficient reasoning on [...] ---Outline:(00:48) Top four reasons we ruled out applications(03:47) Funded organisations(04:00) Asia Accountability Initiative(04:42) The Centre for Responsible Seafood(05:16) Animal Policy International(06:06) Projet Animaux Zoopolis(07:02) An anonymous coalition aiming to limit public support for insect farming in France(07:55) An anonymous initiative trying to promote pain-mitigation strategies in farms(08:20) Bob Fischer - Academic research on tools for incorporating animal welfare into benefit-cost analysis(09:18) Arthropoda Foundation(10:06) Centre for Responsible Food Business(10:48) Animal Partisan(11:38) AETP - Animal Enterprise Transparency Project(12:12) Faculty of Law, University of Toronto(13:03) International Council for Animal Welfare(14:04) Insect Welfare Research Society(15:00) Nettverk for dyrs frihet(16:03) Get involved--- First published: July 21st, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fRQejQGJsKx33ud8u/strategic-animals-funding-circle-results-from-first-two --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.