Blueperch is a fund that makes grants of to high-impact farmed animal advocacy projects.
We create cost-effective impact for farmed animals by making the grants that other funders cannot - small grants delivered early and fast - and using grants to generate evidence that guides the movement’s funding decisions.
While we are interested in funding any high-impact farmed animal advocacy project, we have a particular interest in funding:
- Early-stage projects
- Time-sensitive policy windows
- Organisations or projects that fall through the cracks of other animal funders
About our grantmaking:
- We anticipate that most grants will be in the range of ~5,000 to 100,000 USD
- We seek to give out ~1.2 million USD in our first year of grantmaking (~2027), scaling to ~4 million USD given out in the third year (~2029), subject to receiving a sufficient volume high-impact opportunities
- Open applications - once applications open, anyone can apply for funding
- Rolling applications - once applications open, people can apply for funding at any time, and we will evaluate applications as we receive them
What we fund
We are interested in funding projects that aim to improve the wellbeing of either:
- farmed animals (e.g., farmed broiler chickens, hens, fish, pigs, insects, shrimp, etc), or
- wild animals (e.g., rodents, birds, etc), or
- comparable large-population, neglected groups of neglected animals
We are interested in funding projects that use these interventions (this is a non-exhaustive list):
- Policy advocacy
- Corporate advocacy
- Farmer outreach/training
- Research
- Media and investigations
- Developing the effective animal advocacy movement (e.g., strategic coordination/conferences)
- Other interventions comparable in scope and impact to those listed here
We hope to be able to fund projects anywhere in the world, with the probable exception of China.
What we do not fund
While we are still finalizing our scope, at this stage we anticipate that our scope will exclude:
- Promoting vegan diets or reducing meat consumption (e.g., individual outreach, institutional advocacy).
- Alternative proteins (e.g., cultured meat research, cultured meat policy, consumer acceptance of plant-based proteins).
- Pet welfare (dogs, cats, etc).
- Direct animal care (animal sanctuaries, animal shelters, racing animals etc).
- Environmental conservation or habitat preservation.
- Political activity. We cannot fund political activity. Political activity is defined as “influencing […] the selection, nomination, election, or appointment of any individual to any Federal, State, or local public office […] or the election of Presidential or Vice-Presidential electors”. Note that this is different from lobbying - we anticipate being able to fund lobbying, defined as attempts to influence legislation or government policy/regulations, once we have the appropriate institutional structure in place.