Ingredients:
We’ve done the research.
Above are 5 nonprofits championing animal rights. (Scroll down to read about them in Ingredient Descriptions.)
We’ve only included charities which have scored promisingly on Charity Navigator* – the preeminent charity assessment organization that reports on financial stability, accountability/transparency practices, and results of nonprofits.
*or, if they were ineligible, we’ve found similarly promising data elsewhere :)
Instructions:
The Animal Welfare Institute has been working since 1951 to tackle animal welfare causes, ever since founder Christine Stevens set out to end cruelty against animals in laboratory experiments. The AWI fights for a wide range of relevant reforms including but not limited to abolishing factory farming, eliminating the brutalization of wildlife, preserving endangered species, and preventing abuse of animals in commercial trade. 90% of the organization’s expenses are directly applied to their mission.
Charity Navigator: 100/100
The Marine Mammal Center is the first responder for the millions of vulnerable creatures that inhabit our oceans. They have played an active role in rescuing, treating, and rehabilitating over 24,000 marine mammals in the American Pacific, but they operate across all corners of the globe. A significant number of their programs are also dedicated towards field research and education that serves to protect the health of our aquatic biospheres. 79% of all expenses are funneled straight to furthering their care for our marine life.
Charity Navigator: 95/100
Mercy for Animals is dedicated to ending the inhumane practices of factory farming. Chickens, cows, fish and other animals bred for human consumption are abused and tormented at alarming rates in modern large-scale farms. Mercy for Animals dedicates 75% of its over $9 million annual cash flows to their programs targeting education, investigations into farming practices, and corporate outreach aimed at halting the atrocities committed at factory farms every day.
Charity Navigator: 88/100
The Humane Society of the United States seeks to end a number of practices that harm animal well-being, particularly banning trophy hunting, removing fur products from the market, ending cosmetics tests on animals, and stopping animal mills. They employ a wide variety of people and venues in their fight for animal rights, including but not limited to rescuers, directors and advocates pushing for policy change, sanctuaries that provide direct care to animals, and their affiliate the Humane Society International, which operates across the globe. 66% of their inflows go directly to supporting the fight against mistreatment of all animals A-Z.
Charity Navigator: 76/100
The Wild Animal Initiative focuses on projects and research that advance our ability to improve the welfare of wild animals. Their efforts seek to understand, monitor, and analyze the lives of animals within frameworks ranging from population control to climate change. They also engage in efforts from issuing their own grants to aiding in crowdfunding for independent research. This is all with the ultimate goal of bettering the conditions of wild animals and mitigating the impacts of humans on natural environments.
Charity Navigator: Cannot yet be evaluated by Encompass Rating methodology due to only having 2 years of electronically-filed IRS Form 990 data. Absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment; it only indicates that it has yet to be completed.
Animal Charity Evaluators: Received a grant of $3.5 million in 2021, projected revenue of $1.5 million in 2022 with 100% allocation to stronger animal advocacy movements.