“The EA Animal Welfare Fund (Once Again) Has Significant Room For More Funding” by kierangreig, Neil_Dullaghan, KarolinaSarek, Zoë Sigle

Just as~2 years ago, the EA Animal Welfare Fund has significant room for more funding. This could be a pretty important point that informs end of year giving for a number of donors who are looking to make donations within the animal sector. Briefly, here's why the Animal Welfare Fund has some pretty significant room for more funding at this point:Right now, there's currently ~$1M in the Animal Welfare Fund. We also now have 50 grants, summing to ~$4.5M in grants under evaluation.Between mid-last year and mid-this year, the EA AWF received ~350 applications over the past year of which ~150 were desk rejects and ~200 were graded by fund managers. Of these ~200, ~60 received funding, and ~30 received the grant amount they applied for or more. Assuming that the general shape of the pipeline remains similar, that could imply we may now have more grants than we can fund. Potentially [...] --- First published: November 20th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qpqab3LwmA6yBFJCk/the-ea-animal-welfare-fund-once-again-has-significant-room --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.