Our mission
We connect compassionate people with impactful charities that are fixing factory farming
Guide
We’ve done the homework for you, so that you can donate to the best charities working to end factory farming without the hassle of spending hours doing research.
Holistic
Together, our charities help all the main types of animals impacted by our food system address the harms of factory farming to animals, people and the planet.
Fully independent
We operate independently, funded by philanthropic grants. This ensures that 100% of your donation goes to your chosen charities and that our recommendations stay bias-free.
Learn more about us:
Our top animal charities
Did you know: Where you donate can make a bigger difference than how much you donate?
For example, it costs a shelter about $3,000 a year to look after a dog. But that amount given to our recommended animal charities can help more than 6000 animals suffering on factory farms!
Donating made easy
Through FarmKind you can donate to any one of our recommended charities. But, if you don’t want to choose, we built the Climate Fund and Impact fund to let you donate to multiple charities with a single click: think of it like an investment portfolio for ending factory farming.
Our Impact Fund includes all of our recommended charities, helping to maximise the difference your gift makes towards ending factory farming and animal suffering.
Our Climate Fund focuses on charities that are making a difference in the fight against climate change. These include creating new healthy and sustainable foods (like plant-based and cultivated meat), and institutional reforms (like pressuring banks to stop investing in unsustainable farming, convincing large companies to make low-carbon food more available and combatting corporate greenwashing).
Meet the charities
= Climate fund
Our selection process
What we look for
Top animal charities that will do the most good with your donations based on the best evidence available.
We want our recommended charities to collectively to address the main types of harm caused by factory farming. This they collectively help all the main groups of animals harmed, while also making farming kinder to people and the planet.
How we pick them
All our charities must have been rigorously assessed by Animal Charity Evaluators, who spend thousands of hours investigating charities to understand how much good they do with each donation.
But that's not all: We then work with expert grantmakers to hand-pick a subset of charities from Animal Charity Evaluators' extremely selective list, that best meet the needs of donors like you.
Our Compassion Calculator
It’s possible to help fix factory farming without changing your diet:
Similar to a carbon offset calculator, our Compassion Calculator helps you do as much good to fix factory farming as your diet contributes to it.
Completely tailored to your input, the tool shows you how many animals are impacted by your diet. Then it suggests an amount to donate to help factory farmed animals just as much! You can use it to offset your own diet, your family’s, or a complete stranger’s!
Our founders
Thom Norman
Co-Founder and Director of Outreach
My cats Luna and Sirius mean the world to me. And when I think about pigs, cows, and chickens, I can't help but imagine how I'd feel if my beloved pets (let’s be real, family) suffered the same fate as those unlucky animals. That's why I left my job as a lawyer to help put an end to factory farming, which eventually led me to co-create FarmKind.
Most people know that factory farming is wrong, but many don't think there’s anything they can do about it. FarmKind offers a solution to this hopeless feeling by connecting compassionate people like yourself with charities doing their best to end animal suffering.
Aidan Alexander
Co-Founder and Director of Platform
It took me seven years to meaningfully change my diet. During that journey, I discovered something surprising: Some charities can do 100x more good per dollar than others. I realized I could have been helping farmed animals through donation all that time, even though I was still eating burgers.
I co-founded FarmKind to make it easier for everyone who cares about animals to help them, regardless of where they are on their own journey. You don't need to disrupt your life to make a real difference! If you want to help farmed animals, I understand – and I'm here to support you."
Our advisors
Frequently asked questions
Getting in touch
How do I get in touch?
If you have any questions that aren’t answered below, or would like to talk to us about your donation, please send us an email or give us a call (details here).
I'm a journalist and would like to speak with the team. How should I get in touch?
Please email press@farmkind.giving and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
I’m interested in making a large donation and would like to speak with the team. How should I get in touch?
We’d be happy to help! You can contact us by phone or email (details here). We can provide additional advice on making the most of your donation or help with tax deductibility for non-US tax-paying donors.
Donating
Are donations tax-deductible?
If you pay taxes in the USA, your donation will be tax deductible. You’ll receive a donation receipt from Every.org after you donate. If you are not a US citizen and you want to make a tax-deductible donation, please contact us (details here).
Are my donations secure?
Yes! Neither FarmKind nor our donation distribution service, Every.org, handles your payment information. Instead, we use Stripe, a leader in global internet payments, to store your information. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1 – the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.
Can I donate from anywhere in the world or just the US?
You can donate from anywhere. Donations by US taxpayers are tax deductible. If you want your donation to be tax deductible and do not pay your taxes in the USA, please contact us details here).
Can I donate through a donor-advised fund (DAF)?
Absolutely! Once you reach the payment stage at Every.org, choose the ‘DAF’ option. Choose to donate directly via Chariot and automatically initiate a grant from your DAF or request instructions to initiate a manual DAF donation.
To donate now, click here.
If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact us (details here) and we’d be happy to help.
Do you charge any fees? How are you funded?
We don’t charge any fees. 100% of your donation goes to the charities you select. The only additional fees you may incur are payment processing fees charged by our payment providers. Our donations distributor, Every.org, does everything it can to reduce these fees as much as possible.
We’re able to run FarmKind without charging fees because we’re funded by individuals and foundations that believe in our mission to help everyone be a part of making farming kinder for animals, people, and the planet.
How are donations processed?
First, each donation you make goes to Every.org, which immediately issues a receipt for your charitable contribution and then a disbursement to the nonprofit you chose.
Every.org aggregates donations from all of our donors and periodically makes disbursements. If the nonprofit you chose has a bank account connected to Every.org, the charity can request payouts at any time and cadence. Otherwise, Every.org disburses to nonprofits in partnership with Network for Good, another 501(c)(3) nonprofit. On a monthly basis, Network for Good issues lump-sum grants to selected nonprofits.
This process ensures your eligibility for a tax deduction (for US donors) and consolidated records of your giving, as well as reduces the administrative burden of the nonprofits to process multiple small donations from hundreds of donors.
When I click donate, why am I redirected to another site?
When you click donate, you’ll be temporarily sent to our donation distributor, Every.org. Every.org securely handles your donation using Stripe to process your information and payment. Every.org then lets us know that you’ve made a donation. Every.org is a nonprofit and doesn’t take any portion of your donation for itself, nor does it sell your data.
We work with Every.org because they are a trusted provider that has raised over $50 million and is used by thousands of nonprofits, providing a secure donation system that keeps your information safe and ensures your donation is delivered to your chosen charity.
When I try to finish my donation, Every.org asks me to add 15% for them. What is this?
Every.org is a nonprofit that helps us process donations to our recommended charities. We work with Every.org because they’re a trusted system that has raised over $50 million and is used by thousands of nonprofits, providing a secure donation system that keeps your information safe and ensures your donation is delivered to your chosen charity.
Every.org also relies on donations, so they ask donors to make an optional donation to support their services. Supporting Every.org is not required, so just set the slider to 0% if you don’t want to donate to them.
When I use your Compassion Calculator and then go to donate the suggested amount, why does the impact estimate say I'll help more animals than are impacted by my diet?
Great question! Our impact estimate during the donation process shows roughly how many animals our charities have been able to help with this amount of money. While an animal's life can be made significantly better through donating, a charity's work may not have made the treatment of each animal completely humane yet i.e. there may be remaining cruel practices to phase out. So when it comes to the Compassion Calculator (which estimates how much it would cost charities to do as much good for animals as they experience on factory farms), one generally needs to help more animals than they consume to offset all of the harms. This is why donating the amount suggested (to do as much good as your diet does harm) will show that you're helping more animals than were required to produce your food.
Doesn’t answer your question?
Totally fair -- our offset formula can be a bit unintuitive! Please email (details here) and let us know where we’re unclear, so we can fully answer your question and improve this explanation for future donors.
Charities
How do you recommend highly impactful charities?
We work with expert charity evaluators to identify charities that are transparent about how they spend their money, can provide evidence that their work is making a difference, and are likely to do a lot of good per dollar spent.
All of our super-effective charities have been recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We also take advice from other expert assessors of animal charities to ensure that our curated list is well-tailored and balanced, improving farming for people, the planet, and animals.
We do not claim that our recommended charities are the only super-effective charities out there, but we’re confident that donating to these charities will ensure your donation goes as far as possible to fix factory farming.
More information is available here.
Can my charity be considered for recommendation?
At this time, only charities that have at some point been recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators are eligible for consideration. We will update our recommendations periodically and will reach out to eligible charities at this time, so there’s no need to get in proactively.
What are the Impact Fund and Climate Fund?
To make donating even easier, we have aggregated our recommended charities into two funds: the Impact Fund and Climate Fund.
The Impact Fund includes all of our recommended charities, while the Climate Fund includes recommended charities with programs that push for climate-friendly reforms e.g. promoting the development of alternative proteins; pressuring financial institutions to divest from unsustainable farming practices; promoting low-carbon, plant-based options to big organizations; fighting corporate greenwashing, etc.
These funds enable you to contribute across a spectrum of charities so that you don’t have to limit your support to just one organization or effort.
FarmKind’s Bonus Fund
What is FarmKind's Bonus Fund
One of the ways FarmKind encourages more people to help fix factory farming is by offering matching funds that boost donations. Whether it's during special occasions like Giving Tuesday, through ambassador partnerships, or personal referral codes, these matching opportunities inspire people to give, and to give more generously.
These matching funds come from FarmKind’s Bonus Fund, a finite pool that some of our donors choose to donate to, in order to make their donation go even further by using it to encourage others.
What happens if I become a bonus supporter?
If you become a bonus supporter, then your donation will go to our bonus fund. The money will, guaranteed, be donated to charity. But, by donating to the fund you are helping us to continue to match people’s donations, encouraging more people to donate to help make farming kinder. You'll generate more support for the charities working to make farming kinder than if you donated to them directly, because each dollar donated into our bonus system will indirectly cause more than a dollar to be donated to highly effective charities, on average.
If, for any reason, we stop running matching campaigns, any money remaining in the bonus fund will be distributed between our recommended charities. We won’t keep a cent.
We have a detailed explainer about how the bonus fund works here.
Our bonus fund is a powerful tool for encouraging more donations to make farming kinder, but its survival relies on people choosing to become bonus supporters. You can donate to the fund here.
Privacy and security
Do you share my information with anyone?
When you make a donation through FarmKind, the information about the charity and the amount you donate is shared with our donation distributor, Every.org. Your payment information is handled by Stripe to ensure security and privacy.
We will never sell your email address or any other data we have about you to anyone. See our privacy policy for full details.
Are my donations secure?
Yes! Neither FarmKind nor our donation distribution service, Every.org, handles your payment information. Instead, we use Stripe, a leader in global internet payments, to store your payment information. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1 – the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.
Transparency
Transparency is a core value at FarmKind, so we want to be as open as possible about our intentions, process, and funding.
Our operations
100% of donations on our platform go to users' chosen destination. We do not take a cut or charge any fees. To make this possible, our operational costs are independently funded by philanthropic grants. Our funders to date include:
A detailed breakdown of our funding sources over time can be found here.
Our beginnings and status
FarmKind was incubated in 2024 as part of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program and operates through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178, www.ppf.org/pp), a Maryland charitable trust with federal tax-exempt status as a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Donations through our platform
A detailed breakdown of donations made through our platform can be found here. It includes details on how many donors and donations we had, how much they gave and to which charities on a monthly basis.
Our supporters
We couldn’t have launched FarmKind, nor could we continue to operate it, without the generous support of our amazing donors and so many special people behind the scenes. We’re truly humbled by the incredible support we receive for this project!
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Kate Rodman and the team at Violet Studios for the incredible graphic design
Vikram Singh from Vegan Hacktivists for his help crafting the donation user experience
Douglas Browne from Hive for his foundational software development and the rest of the Hive team for their invaluable support
Pau Vidal Borday and Joey Farina for their continued development of the platform and its features
Every.org for their willingness to customize their API to meet our needs and Santi Hernandez for making it happen
Matt Coleman, Fabio Kuhn, Professor Josh Greene and Dr. Lucius Caviola at Giving Multiplier for supporting us to build off of what they’ve learned and achieved with their platform
Ambitious Impact for incubating our organization, and in particular Samantha Kagel, Steve Thompson and our cohort of fellow charity entrepreneurs
Karl Keefer, Lily Chamberlain and Jack Farrell for sharing your experience and expertise with us
Aaron Cahill for your generous analytics support — you should say “no” more!
Kristine Ford for your feedback and marketing advice
Harrison Wood, Shane C, Danny Lipsitz for your ongoing support in creating great content, from our videos to podcasts to blogs