Animal Charity Evaluators

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is dedicated to our mission of finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. We aim to assist compassionate donors, advocates, and volunteers in making informed decisions about how to help animals as effectively as possible. ACE strives to identify ways to alleviate suffering and improve the lives of animals on a wide scale, while continuously updating our recommendations based on new evidence. Our goal is to help people help animals. Ultimately, ACE's vision is a world in which no individual is given less than full moral consideration on the basis of any morally irrelevant feature of their identity, including species membership.

To achieve ACE’s mission of finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals, we pursue three main programs: Research and Evaluation, Education and Outreach, and Fundraising and Grant-making.

Research and Evaluation: Annually, ACE evaluates international animal charities in order to determine their effectiveness at reducing animal suffering. Our comprehensive evaluations process provides an in-depth look at each charity’s programs, track record, strategy, leadership, and culture in order to recommend them as either a Top Charity or a Standout Charity. Outside of our annual charity evaluation activities, we maintain a robust research program devoted to resolving uncertainties relevant to our work and to the animal advocacy movement as a whole.

Education and Outreach: Through online and offline efforts, ACE educates people on how they can help the greatest number of animals. We produce informational videos aimed at explaining the concepts of effective animal advocacy to a broad audience. Our annual Guide to Effective Giving educates donors and advocates about where to invest their resources in order to help the most animals. Our internationally-based team speaks at conferences around the globe to share our work and reach more people interested in reducing animal suffering. We also support those working in the animal advocacy movement by publishing guidance, interviewing leaders and experts, and sharing advice on successful nonprofit practices and operations in order to increase effectiveness.

Fundraising and Grant-making: Since 2014, ACE has helped to influenced an estimated $48 million USD in donations within the animal advocacy movement. We offer convenient giving opportunities, such as our Recommended Charity Fund and ACE Movement Grants, for donors to support effective charities and promising advocacy projects working in neglected regions around the globe to reduce animal suffering.

ACE has a talented internationally-based team that is knowledgeable in research, philanthropy, communications, management, and leadership. Our organization has experience and connections within both the animal advocacy movement and the effective altruism movement. In addition, we utilize a network of academics and professionals to inform our work. Over the years, we have considered thousands of charities for evaluation and recommendation. Since 2014, ACE has helped to influence an estimated $48 million in donations within the animal advocacy movement to reduce suffering around the globe.

Read more about ACE's progress and future goals in our Year in Review and Prospective Goals on our website at www.animalcharityevaluators.org.

Select 2021 accomplishments:

–Influenced an estimated $10.8 million in donations within the animal advocacy movement
–Considered 2,800 animal charities for evaluation; invited 25 to participate
–Recommended 3 Top Charities and 13 Standout Charities
–Produced our 2021 Guide to Effective Giving to help people donate to impactful animal charities
–Distributed over $1.4 million in grants from our Recommended Charity Fund to our Top and Standout Charities
–Awarded ACE Movement Grants to 35 promising animal advocacy projects
–Hosted a virtual ACE Community Chat for applicants to ACE Movement Grants
–Added 2 new members to our remote team