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Back to Episodes“The $120 Million Question: How will it help animals?” by Zoë Sigle 🔹
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Executive Summary
The four largest funds in the effective animal advocacy movement can absorb ~$120 million in new funding in the coming year, with potential for greater growth in future years. Setting aside the historic scarcity mindset, I share this money's significant opportunity to reduce animal suffering and encourage emerging major donors from Anthropic to fund this impact.
We can deploy this money effectively across three intervention categories:
- Scaling what works (~50-60%)
- Testing new interventions (~30-40%)
- Growing movement infrastructure & people power (~10-20%)
Major donors should contact the major funds’ managers directly to decide where to give: Karolina Sarek (EA Animal Welfare Fund), Lewis Bollard (Coefficient Giving's Farm Animal Welfare Fund), Jesse Marks (The Navigation Fund's Animal Welfare Fund), and Stien van der Ploeg (Animal Charity Evaluators). Extremely time-poor major ($250k+) donors can email me for a quick (~15-minute) call to match them to the most aligned fund.
Disclosures: I wrote this post in my Senterra Funders (formerly known as Farmed Animal Funders) capacity.[1] The interventions discussed are broader than the strategy of the EA Animal Welfare Fund, where I am a Fund Manager.
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Elliot Teperman and Shannon Campion for reviewing drafts of this post. All substance [...]
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Outline:
(00:12) Executive Summary
(01:57) The effective animal movement can absorb an additional $120 million in 2026
(03:19) What can we do with an additional $120 million?
(04:13) Scaling What Already Works
(06:17) Testing New Interventions
(08:06) Growing Movement Infrastructure & People Power
(09:14) What next?
(09:17) For emerging major donors: Recommendations to fund the $120 million growth
(10:31) Appendix A
(10:45) Method
(11:59) Results
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First published:
March 31st, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.