Building political power for animals.
Zoa Fund partners with local organizations, policy advocates, and movement leaders to advance concrete, real-world wins for animals — through public policy, strategic research, and coordinated campaigns.
Get in touchWhat we fund
Animal welfare and animal rights, broadly.
All of our grantmaking advances animal welfare and animal rights. We take a broad view on culture change, and fund work that expands the cultural dialogue around animal issues.
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Policy & political work
Funding local and statewide animal-protection policy campaigns, ballot initiatives, and the political infrastructure that makes durable wins possible.
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Movement coordination
Funding convenings, capacity-building, and shared strategy across animal-protection organizations.
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Research, narrative & culture
Funding rigorous policy research, media projects, and cultural work that shifts how the public thinks about animals.
How we work
Partners, not patrons.
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Real partnership, not transactional grantmaking.
We engage as collaborators on strategy and problem-solving — not just check-writers.
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Concrete problems, not isolated projects.
We orient around clearly defined issues and fund the pathways that actually solve them.
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Power built from the ground up.
Our focus is U.S. local and state work, where durable political power for animals is forged.
Applying
Mostly by invitation.
Most of our funding goes to organizations we've sought out, where alignment with our priorities is already clear. We don't post an open application, and we rarely take unsolicited proposals.
If your work clearly fits one of our program areas, we'd like to hear from you. Read those pages first, then send a short, specific note to grants@zoafund.org. We appreciate when people have done the work to understand our priorities before reaching out.
We're also happy to meet people doing animal-protection work that isn't a fit for us — just be straight about what your work is rather than reframing it to look like a fit.
Get in touch.
General inquiries: hello@zoafund.org
Funding inquiries: grants@zoafund.org · how to apply →