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 touchAnimal issues 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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Animal issue
Foie gras
Foie gras production force-feeds ducks and geese to enlarge their livers fivefold. It's a clear cruelty — and unlike most factory-farm practices, it's politically winnable to ban at the city and state level.
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Animal issue
Fur
Fur farming confines mink, fox, and chinchilla in small wire cages until they're killed for fashion. The market is shrinking — the question is whether policy and culture will close the rest of the gap.
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Animal issue
Factory farming
The U.S. farm bill is the single biggest determinant of how billions of farmed animals live and die each year. We fund work that improves the next farm bill — and the laws, agencies, and political coalitions that surround it.
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What we do
We're a fund.
Zoa Fund makes grants to organizations doing animal-protection work in the United States. Across our issues, we support three forms of work — most grants combine elements of all three.
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Political & policy work
Local and statewide campaigns, ballot initiatives, and the political infrastructure that makes durable wins possible.
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Movement coordination
Convenings, capacity-building, and shared strategy across organizations working on the same problems.
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Research, narrative & culture
Rigorous policy research, media projects, and cultural work that shifts how the public thinks about animals.
Funding inquiries
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 unsolicited proposals rarely receive funding.
If your work clearly fits one of our issues, 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.
Get in touch.
General inquiries: hello@zoafund.org
Funding inquiries: grants@zoafund.org · how we fund →