Summary

By identifying and promoting high-impact giving opportunities, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) aims to help people help more animals. We believe this approach to be particularly important for effective animal advocacy (EAA) because this cause area is not only deeply underfunded, the problem is growing (yet solvable!). During Marginal Funding Week, we present our thoughts on how filling ACE's need for additional funding will empower us to help the movement reduce avoidable suffering for trillions of animals on farms and in the wild.

We need to raise at least $535,740 by March 31, 2026 to grow our meta-fundraising capacity (meaning our ability to raise money for the high-impact charities we recommend and for the highly promising projects we support through our Movement Grants program) and continue to improve the quality of our research in our next fiscal year. We do the research so that effectiveness-minded donors can conveniently and confidently maximize their impact for animals by donating to our Recommended Charity Fund and our Movement Grants. But we expect that the greatest counterfactual impact of our work comes from drawing new donors to EAA. This demands we invest in outreach and growth.

Our Track Record

Encouraging high-impact charity donations

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Outline:

(00:23 ) Summary

(01:41 ) Our Track Record

(01:44 ) Encouraging high-impact charity donations

(02:55 ) Driving funding for highly-promising projects

(03:59 ) Charity evaluations and recommendations

(08:57 ) Our Need for Funding

(09:38 ) Strategic goals for the coming years

(11:38 ) Specific use of funds for meta-fundraising

(14:10 ) Specific use of funds for improved evaluations and strategy

(15:13 ) Why ACE?

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First published:

November 18th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ekWMbubYfgBFmw7wj/support-ace-as-a-meta-fundraiser-and-evaluator

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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