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Wishing you all the best! :)
Wishing you all the best! :)
Alongside the increased focus on cost-effectiveness and impact (which is huge), do you expect this to bring new funding into the Indian animal space that wouldn't have otherwise been unlocked by Impactful Giving? Looking forward to seeing how this goes; exciting stuff!
Yes! We anticipate attracting new funding to the Indian animal welfare space through family offices and foundations committing more funds than they'd have previously, and new value-aligned donors joining the funding circle.
TL;DR
Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle: a group of donors looking to support high-impact animal welfare work in India. The Jan 2026 RFP is now open, with grants up to INR 75 lakhs or 50% of annual operating expenses, and scope across farmed animals, community and working animals, and animals used in labs. We're inviting Indian nonprofits to apply, interested funders to join us, and everyone to share this with people who could be interested!
👉 Apply here: [link]
The funding circle is donor-driven in that participating funders ultimately decide what they fund. As a result, priorities in any given round may not perfectly track what a purely research-led process would select.
We think it’s important to be explicit about this tradeoff. Many Indian donors interested in animals are new to EA ideas and unlikely to converge on them without structured exposure to research and evidence. The funding circle is designed as a bridge: mobilising funding that might otherwise be less effective, while gradually improving circle and donor epistemics through repeated, evidence-informed discussions.
We also see this as complementary to global animal funds. By supporting effective, locally grounded work in India, the circle helps reduce pressure on global funding pools and increases overall movement capacity.
The India Animal Welfare Funding Circle brings together donors to support strategic, scalable interventions that can reduce animal suffering.
The circle aims to:
Funding decisions are made by individual donors, supported by shared research, evaluation, and facilitation.
We are seeking proposals with strong theories of change and learning orientation, particularly in the following areas (non-exhaustive):
Both one-off and multi-year proposals are welcome.
We welcome applications from Indian non-profit organisations, particularly:
We are open to projects without a completed pilot if the underlying logic and execution capacity are strong.
Geography
Animal groups in scope
Out of scope
👉 Apply here: [link]
If you’re a funder, researcher, or connector in the EA or animal welfare ecosystem, we’d appreciate your help sharing this RFP with Indian organisations doing thoughtful, high-impact work—especially groups that may not usually access EA-aligned funding.
For questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Really excited about this—congrats to the team!