Minor question—I noticed that the website states for the climate fund that the same donation will help a lot more animals than the impact fund (over 2x as many—and mostly driven by chickens and pigs). I know the numbers are likely low confidence, but just curious how you’re thinking about those, as to me it was unintuitive to have one labelled “impact fund” that straightforwardly looks worse on animal impacts than the climate fund (and also worse on the climate side!). I didn’t quite understand why this was happening from looking at the calculations page (though from the charities in each, I definitely have the sense that the impact fund is better for animals!)
The impact fund does help more animals, because it includes the Shrimp Welfare Project, but we recently decided to stop displaying the number of shrimp helped, because for the average donor we think this is counterproductive:
But this means that the number of animals helped that we display for a given donation is lower for Impact Fund than Climate Fund which I agree is confusing. I’ll think about what we can do about this. Thanks for pointing it out!
Note: There’s also the matter of how much each animal is helped, which is a way that a charity with a lower animals helped per dollar could still be more impactful per dollar. You can see the spreadsheet underlying these impact estimates here.
Minor question—I noticed that the website states for the climate fund that the same donation will help a lot more animals than the impact fund (over 2x as many—and mostly driven by chickens and pigs). I know the numbers are likely low confidence, but just curious how you’re thinking about those, as to me it was unintuitive to have one labelled “impact fund” that straightforwardly looks worse on animal impacts than the climate fund (and also worse on the climate side!). I didn’t quite understand why this was happening from looking at the calculations page (though from the charities in each, I definitely have the sense that the impact fund is better for animals!)
Good question Abraham!
The impact fund does help more animals, because it includes the Shrimp Welfare Project, but we recently decided to stop displaying the number of shrimp helped, because for the average donor we think this is counterproductive:
But this means that the number of animals helped that we display for a given donation is lower for Impact Fund than Climate Fund which I agree is confusing. I’ll think about what we can do about this. Thanks for pointing it out!
Note: There’s also the matter of how much each animal is helped, which is a way that a charity with a lower animals helped per dollar could still be more impactful per dollar. You can see the spreadsheet underlying these impact estimates here.
Thanks! That’s useful and makes sense! Appreciate the quick response