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

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!

    • 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