Grants to reduce the suffering of animals raised for food

Advocacy

Alternatives

Rescue

Making the world a better place for food production animals

We make grants to individuals & organizations who:

Are a powerful voice for all animals used in food production, and especially for turkeys, farm hens, dairy cows, and beef cattle

Promote veganism

Expose cruelty in living conditions, transportation, & slaughter

Promote cruelty investigations

Rescue factory-farmed animals

Let us help you help the animals

We award about a dozen grants per year, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 and we have a simple application process that respects your time and expertise.

Explore our previous grants

We are proud to support these organizations

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Animal & Vegan Advocacy International

2025

The Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit’s mission is to create a world where animals are no longer exploited for food or other human uses, focusing on systemic change within the food system and beyond. The summit serves as a global platform for animal and vegan advocates to collaborate, strategize, and learn from each other, ultimately empowering them to be as impactful as possible in driving change.

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Animal Outlook

2022, 2025

Animal Outlook strategically challenges animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and disseminating information about the many harms of animal agriculture, empowering everyone to choose vegan.

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Animal Partisan

2025

Animal Partisan is a legal advocacy organization whose mission is to end the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses, farms, and laboratories by uncovering and challenging unlawful conduct. They employ a “partisan resistance” approach, using legal advocacy to undermine the ability of these industries to explore animals and reduce public confidence in them.

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Animal Recovery Mission

2023, 2024, 2025

ARM is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating extreme animal cruelty operations worldwide. Their mission is to be a strong advocate for animal welfare, preventing pain, suffering, and torture caused by inhumane practices. They achieve this through direct-action investigations, documentation, and exposure of illegal activities related to animal cruelty.

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Better Food Foundation

2025

The Better Food Foundation aims to create sustainable food systems by shifting diets and shaping food culture towards plant-based options. They do this by shaping cultural narratives, focusing on sustainability, incubating novel solutions, and building community capacity.

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Direct Action Everywhere

2023, 2025

Direct Action Everywhere aims to transform the way society views and treats non-human animals by challenging speciesism and advocating for an Animal Bill of Rights. DxE’s approach focuses on direct action, including open rescues and disruptive protests, to build a powerful movement for animal liberation.

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LEAP

2022, 2023, 2025

LEAP’s mission is to cultivate future leaders who advocate for and work towards an equitable future for all living beings and the planet. The organization achieves this by providing humane education and leadership training to high school students, focusing on animal welfare, climate change solutions, and sustainable food systems.

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Open Sanctuary Project

2025

The Open Sanctuary Project’s mission is to provide resources and information for individuals and organizations dedicated to creating and managing animal sanctuaries, with a focus on compassionate, long-term care for farmed animals.

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Pasado's Safe Haven

2021, 2022, 2025

Pasado’s Safe Haven’s mission is to end animal cruelty. They achieve this by investigating animal cruelty, providing sanctuary and rehabilitation to abused and neglected animals, advocating for better animal protection laws, and educating the public about animal suffering.

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Switch 4 Good

2021 - 2025

Switch4Good’s mission is to end the consumption of cows’ milk worldwide and promote a shift towards plant-based alternatives. They aim to achieve this by educating the public about the health, environmental, and ethical implications of dairy consumption, while also advocating for policy changes that support dietary equity and sustainability.

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Legal Impact for Chickens

2022, 2023, 2024

Legal Impact for Chickens focuses on civil litigation as a way to improve animal welfare. The organization’s mission is to systematically develop, refine, and use legal doctrines to fight factory-farm cruelty.

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PETA

2023, 2024

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. The organization works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

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NARN

2023, 2024

The Northwest Animal Rights Network advocates for the rights of all sentient beings—the right to choose, to be free from oppression and exploitation—by pursuing campaigns, facilitating education, and connecting Pacific Northwest organizations. The organization’s efforts include outreach, demonstrations, litigation, and educational events. They also advocate that veganism is the best and most consistent way to respect the lives of animals; by rejecting the support of products and companies that deny them their inherent rights to live a life of freedom and fulfillment of their interests, it is the living practice of animal rights.

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Center for a Humane Economy

2022, 2023

The Center for a Humane Economy’s mission is to influence the conduct of corporations to forge a humane economic order. They aim to replace routine cruelty in agriculture, entertainment, and wildlife management with a more compassionate approach. This involves partnering with businesses, educating consumers, and advocating for public policies that improve animal welfare.

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Farm Sanctuary

2020, 2021, 2023

Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming, advocate for institutional reforms, and encourage a new awareness and understanding of farm animals and the benefits of plant-based living. As the founding farm animal Sanctuary in the U.S., Farm Sanctuary has rescued and provided refuge for countless survivors of the animal agriculture system. Today, at Farm Sanctuary’s Los Angeles, CA and Watkins Glen, NY Sanctuaries there are over 600 rescued animals — each with an individual story to tell. They, and others like them, have changed the hearts and minds of a generation.

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Animal Place

2023

The mission of Animal Place in Grass Valley, California is to provide refuge for unwanted farmed animals, to further their welfare through education of the public, and to foster ethics of compassion and responsibility towards nonhuman animals by advocating a vegan lifestyle.

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Project Animal Freedom

2022, 2024

Project Animal Freedom’s mission is to build a fully vegan Midwest by 2056. This involves mobilizing activists, increasing the number of vegans, and inspiring generosity towards animals. They aim to achieve this through a chapter-based system, focusing on building thriving vegan communities, and addressing climate change and animal abuse.

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Peace Ridge Sanctuary

2021, 2022

Founded in 2001, Peace Ridge Sanctuary is a nonprofit animal advocacy and conservation organization that operates four animal shelters in the heart of coastal Maine. It’s facilities are licensed by the state and accredited through the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. At any given time, the shelters are home to nearly 500 rescued farmed animals, equines, and dogs.

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Good Food Institute

2021

The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit think tank that works to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. As an international network of organizations, the organization advances alternative proteins to help meet climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.

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Susan's Legacy

"When all is said and done, long after I'm gone, I'd like my trust to carry on my work of providing a passionate voice on behalf of those who can't speak for themselves...the animals."

Learn more about Susan Michaels, her life's work, and how we're carrying it on through organizations and individuals like you. Thank you, Susan.