====== Animal Charity Evaluators ======

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**Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE)** is a non-profit organization based in [[united_states:california:Walnut]], [[united_states:California]].

===== History =====

ACE was founded in 2012, under the name of Effective Animal Activism, as a branch of [[80,000 Hours]]. It adopted its current name and became an independent organization in 2013.((Perez, D. (2015, July). //2015 Internal Evaluation.// Animal Charity Evaluators. https://web.archive.org/web/20221125061113/https://animalcharityevaluators.org/transparency/internal-evaluations/2015-internal-evaluation/))

===== Organization =====

==== Funding ====

In 2021, ACE received three grants totalling $227,200 from the [[Silicon Valley Community Foundation]] (SVCF).((//Grants Catalog.// Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2023, from https://archive.ph/i0ZMe))

As of June 2022, ACE has received over $1.8 million in funding from [[Open Philanthropy]],((//Grants.// (2021, June 30). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20220702090514/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?organization-name=animal-charity-evaluators)) and over $550,000 from [[Effective Altruism Funds]].((//March 2020: Animal Welfare Fund Grants.// Effective Altruism Funds. Retrieved November 25, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221125061507/https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/payouts/march-2020-animal-welfare-fund-grants)) 

Additional funding has come from:((//Top Donors.// Animal Charity Evaluators. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221024213819/https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/contributors/top-donors/))

  * [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]
  * [[Craigslist Charitable Fund]]
  * [[Effective Altruism Funds]]
  * [[Facebook]]
  * [[Genworth]]
  * [[Greenbaum Foundation]]
  * [[Human America Animal Foundation]]
  * [[Open Philanthropy]]
  * [[Peter Singer]]
  * [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]

===== External links =====

  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Charity_Evaluators|Wikipedia]]