Not all animal welfare funding has equal impact — evidence-based effective giving frameworks help philanthropists and donors direct resources toward interventions with the largest welfare impact per dollar spent.
Effective animal welfare philanthropy applies the same cost-effectiveness thinking to welfare interventions that effective altruism applies to global health. Given constrained resources, directing funding toward organisations with demonstrated impact in high-scale welfare problems — farmed animal advocacy, alternative protein development, welfare science research — maximises welfare outcomes per dollar. Individual donor choices aggregated across thousands of donors significantly affect which organisations can scale their impact.