Hi,
I appreciate THL has room for more funding. You say in the report on animal charity evaluators that:
A direct referral from Open Philanthropy’s Farm Animal Welfare team — the largest funder in the impact-focused animal welfare space — on THL indeed currently being funding-constrained, i.e. that it has ample room to cost-effectively use marginal funds on corporate campaigns and that there aren’t strong diminishing returns to providing THL with extra funding.
However, Open Philanthropy (OP), which granted 8.3 M$ to THL in 2023, presumably wants to fund THL up to a certain point. Other donors donating to THL could simply mean OP has to donate less. So I wonder whether donating to THL has the same effect as donating to OP. If this is so, donating to THL would be equivalent to mostly supporting human welfare interventions. Based on OP’s grants data on 17 February 2024, only 9.98 % of the money granted by OP has gone to animal welfare interventions.
I believe donations to AWF do not suffer as much from the above. Their grants are much smaller than OP’s.
Thanks for sharing, Gisele!
Have you considered analysing animal welfare interventions? It is not related to poverty and low development, but Brazil’s rising incomes are resulting in more factory-farming.
From 2002 to 2022, the number of poultry birds in Brazil increased 78.2 % (= 1.60*10^9/(898*10^6) − 1).
From 2000 to 2020, aquaculture production in Brazil increased 266 % (= 630*10^3/(172*10^3) − 1).