Animal Charity Evaluators helps reduce large-scale animal suffering by finding and promoting what they've assessed to be the most impactful organisations helping animals.
Trillions of animals suffer every day on farms and in the wild. The problem is vast and complex, but people around the world are making a difference. By examining factors such as neglect, scale, and tractability, advocates and philanthropists can increase the amount of good they create in the world. The animal advocacy movement has seen several notable successes over the past decade as it has strengthened its approach using these principles, from corporate campaigns that have helped millions of animals to significant technological advancements in animal product alternatives.
Despite a recent shift in public attention and attitudes toward animals, many challenges remain, and animal suffering remains prominent. To make tangible progress, animal advocates must adapt to a dynamic global environment and explore strategies to reduce the exploitation of animals. We need to understand the effectiveness of the approaches we use to help animals so that we can direct efforts and funding to groups that are doing the most good for them in areas where the most animals are suffering.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is dedicated to finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. It prioritises its efforts based on available research, as well as the scale, tractability, and neglectedness framework.
ACE supports effective interventions within farmed animal advocacy and wild animal welfare via two programs:
We looked into ACE's Charity Evaluation program as well as their Movement Grants program as part of our evaluator investigations and you can read our reports of those programs here. We have not evaluated ACE's own spending for its cost-effectiveness.
We have varying degrees of information about the cost-effectiveness of our supported programs. We have more information about programs that impact-focused evaluators (some of which our research team expects to investigate soon as part of their evaluator investigations) have looked into, as well as programs that we’ve previously included on our list of recommended charities. We think it’s important to share the information we have with donors as we expect it will be useful in their donation decisions, but don’t want donors to mistakenly overweight the extent to which we share information about some charities and not others. Therefore, we want to clarify two things: