Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €1,248,000 (approximately $1,303,598 at the time of conversion) to the Animal Welfare Observatory to support its work on corporate and institutional advocacy campaigns to improve farm animal welfare in Spain.
This follows our November 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Europe.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of CAD 299,760 (approximately $214,829 at the time of conversion) over two years to the Montreal SPCA to support its work on farm animal welfare advocacy in Québec.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
The grant amount was updated in July 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $600,000 over two years to World Animal Protection to support its work on farm animal welfare in East Asia.
This follows our September 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Asia.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €1,650,000 (approximately $1,745,172 at the time of conversion) to the Albert Schweitzer Foundation (ASF) for general support.
The funding will allow ASF to continue to pursue animal welfare reforms across Europe, including campaigns and litigation to improve the welfare of egg-laying hens, broiler chickens, farmed fish, and other animals.
This follows our October 2021 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Europe.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 to Malengo for general support. Malengo offers mentoring and financial support to students from low-income countries who want to complete a university degree in a high-income country.
This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $8,400,000 to The Humane League (THL) for general support. This includes support for the Open Wing Alliance, a global coalition of grassroots groups. Our farm animal welfare team estimates that the major animal welfare pledges that THL has secured in recent years have improved the welfare of millions of animals. This funding will support a global expansion of THL’s corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns.
The Open Wing Alliance (OWA) is a coalition of more than 100 organizations from 67 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. These groups pursue the common goal of freeing egg-laying hens from cages across the world. THL provides support and guidance for the OWA coalition and administers a grants program for members. OWA members and other animal protection organizations have helped secure more than 3,000 cage-free corporate commitments; most companies are sticking to their commitments, freeing millions of hens from cages.
This follows our October 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of 33,433,533 over five years to Evidence Action to provide technical assistance to support the government in setting up in-line chlorination in two states in India (Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh). This grant was made on GiveWell’s recommendation.
See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 to SJS Inc. to support its work to test a market-shaping approach to promoting alternative proteins.
Market shaping involves working with companies to dramatically lower costs and accelerate a product to market. The approach has been utilized in global health and climate technology contexts to significantly lower the costs of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and technology.
This follows our June 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $5,307,885 over five years to Dalhousie University to support research on human colostrum’s ability to reduce the incidence of neonatal sepsis.
Colostrum is produced in the mammary glands early in lactation, prior to mature milk production. This grant will support an analysis of colostrum components to identify the mechanism by which it protects newborns from infection. This is one of two grants we are making to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $210,000 to the University of Warwick to support research on the impact of high-skilled immigration in the United Kingdom, led by Associate Professor Arun Advani.
This falls within our focus area of innovation policy.