Essere Animali donations received

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Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Essere Animali in our system.

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 3 150,000 229,325 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 462,974 462,974 462,974 462,974
Animal welfare 3 150,000 229,325 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 462,974 462,974 462,974 462,974

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Essere Animali

Donor Total 2020 2019 2018
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) 612,974.00 462,974.00 150,000.00 0.00
Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund (filter this donee) 75,000.00 0.00 0.00 75,000.00
Total 687,974.00 462,974.00 150,000.00 75,000.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
Where ACE Staff Are Giving In 2019 and Why2019-12-26Erika Alonso Animal Charity EvaluatorsHeather Herrell Erika Alonso Gina Stuessy Jamie Spurgeon Melissa Guzikowski Cash Callaghan Marianne van der Werf Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Effective Animal Advocacy Fund Farm Sanctuary StrongMinds The Good Food Institute Rethink Priorities The Humane League Wild Animal Initiative Fish Welfare Initiative Aquatic Life Institute Faunalytics Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations Essere Animali Christopher Sebastian McJetters Periodic donation list documentationAnimal welfareAnimal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2019. The list differs from the previous year: almost all the donations are in the animal welfare space (with none in the domains of AI safety, other global catastrophic risks, or GiveWell-style global health and development). Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Open Philanthropy462,974.0012020-01Animal welfare/factory farming/fish/chicken/pighttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/essere-animali-farm-animal-welfare-work-italy-2020Lewis Bollard Donation process: Discretionary grant

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to support investigations and corporate campaigns on fish, chicken, and pig welfare in Italy."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "Approximately 260 million farmed land animals and 140 million farmed fish are alive in Italy at any time. Essere Animali investigations at farms where fish, pigs, and chickens are raised and slaughtered have generated media coverage in Italy and elsewhere."

Other notes: Currency info: donation given as 420,000.00 EUR (conversion done via donor calculation); intended funding timeframe in months: 24; affected countries: Italy.
Open Philanthropy150,000.0022019-02Animal welfare/factory farming/fish/chicken/pighttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/essere-animali-farm-animal-welfare-work-in-italyLewis Bollard Donation process: Discretionary grant

Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support

Intended use of funds: Grant "to conduct farm investigations and scale up media outreach and corporate campaigning in Italy."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "Approximately 260 million farmed land animals and 140 million farmed fish are alive in Italy at any time. Essere Animali investigations at farms where fish, pigs, and chickens are raised and slaughtered have generated media coverage in Italy and elsewhere, and we believe these investigations are useful to others working on animal welfare globally."

Donor retrospective of the donation: A followup grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/essere-animali-farm-animal-welfare-work-in-italy in 2020-01 suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee.

Other notes: Affected countries: Italy.
Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund75,000.0032018-07-31Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken and pighttps://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare/payouts/4Bianu30diUQeWGU2Oiq8ELewis Bollard Bollard is impressed with the publicity the grantee (an Italian membership group with fees of ~€270/year) has got for its investigations into the abuse of pigs for parma ham and octopus fishing. He is also impressed with the work of Animal Equality in Italy, but thinks multiple groups would be good given the scale of factory farming (~260 million land farm animals, and ~150 million farmed fish). These funds would allow Essere Animali to hire corporate campaigners on fish farming and gestation crates for a year, as well as supporting campaign costs. Essere Animali proposed three more roles it wanted funded, but Bollard did not want to overcommit; he thinks the Open Philanthropy Project, where he is the Program Officer for Farm Animal Welfare, may be interested in funding the organization if it does well. Affected countries: Italy; Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 6.22%.