“Announcing ACE’s 2025 Charity Recommendations” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Vince Mak 🔸

Nov 9, 2025

Discover groundbreaking insights into effective animal charity initiatives! The host outlines the impactful work of organizations like the Animal Welfare Observatory and the Shrimp Welfare Project. Learn about Brazil's Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira promoting plant-based diets and the global strategies of The Humane League. Delve into the Wild Animal Initiative's unique research funding and Aquatic Life Institute's commitment to aquatic animal welfare. This conversation reveals how even small donations can lead to significant change for animals worldwide.

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INSIGHT

Scale Of Animal Suffering And Leverage

Hundreds of billions of animals are trapped and killed in food systems each year, dwarfing human historical populations.
Donating to effective animal charities can leverage relatively small gifts into large reductions in animal suffering.

ADVICE

Use Evaluations To Guide Donations

Donate to charities ACE has evaluated to ensure money goes where it can have the most impact.
Consider joining ACE's monthly recommended charity fund to let experts allocate funds to greatest needs.

INSIGHT

Spain-Focused Corporate And Policy Strategy

Animal Welfare Observatory focuses on corporate accountability and policy in Spain and the EU to improve chicken and aquatic welfare.
Investigations, company outreach, and public progress tracking are their main levers.

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We update our list of Recommended Charities annually. This year, we announced recommendations on November 4.

Each year, hundreds of billions of animals are trapped in the food industry and killed for food —that is more than all the humans who have ever walked on the face of the Earth.1

When faced with such a magnitude of suffering, it can feel overwhelming and hard to know how to help. One of the most impactful things you can do to help animals is to donate to effective animal charities—even a small donation can have a big impact. Our goal is to help you do the most good for animals by providing you with effective giving opportunities that greatly reduce their suffering. Following our comprehensive charity evaluations, we are pleased to announce our Recommended Charities!

Charities awarded the status in 2025Charities retaining the status from 2024Animal Welfare ObservatoryAquatic Life InstituteShrimp Welfare ProjectÇiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma DerneğiSociedade Vegetariana BrasileiraDansk Vegetarisk ForeningThe Humane LeagueGood Food FundWild Animal InitiativeSinergia Animal

The Humane League (working globally), Shrimp Welfare Project (in Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and India), and Wild Animal Initiative (global) have continued to work on the most important issues for animals [...]

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Outline:

(03:54) Charities Recommended in 2025

(03:59) Animal Welfare Observatory

(05:44) Shrimp Welfare Project

(07:38) Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira

(09:41) The Humane League

(11:22) Wild Animal Initiative

(13:15) Charities Recommended in 2024

(13:20) Aquatic Life Institute

(15:25) Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği

(17:34) Dansk Vegetarisk Forening