FarmKind exists to grow the base of support for efforts to fix factory farming. This means helping individuals support some of the best charities working on the issue by:

• Identifying top charities that will use your donation wisely to make a big difference
• Spreading the word that donating is a great way that anyone can become a part of the solution
• Passing your donations directly to those charities, without taking a cut
• Estimating how much impact your donation will have, to make supporting these charities feel as tangible and concrete as it really is

While diet change is a great way to help animals, the truth is, it's not the only or even the best way.

• Diet change can be hard: Many people find changing their diet very difficult. Others face cultural, financial, medical and practical barriers. We want to lower the barrier to entry for people to contribute to solving this global problem, regardless of their diet.
• Donating is more accessible and scalable: Just $23/month to effective charities can do as much good as going completely vegan. Unlike diet change, there's no upper limit to how much good you can do through donations. Instead of focusing on harming as little as possible, we focus on preventing as much harm as possible — it's both a bigger and easier opportunity.
• We're not here to judge anyone: Anyone can be a part of the solution to factory farming. We want to expand the menu of options for how to get involved and celebrate anyone who wants to help, in whatever way works for them. Everyone is on their own journey with different circumstances and capabilities.

If you pay taxes in the USA, your donation will be tax deductible. You'll receive a donation receipt from Every.org after you donate. If you are not a US citizen and you want to make a tax-deductible donation, please contact us (details here).

Yes! Neither FarmKind nor our donation distribution service, Every.org, handles your payment information. Instead, we use Stripe, a leader in global internet payments, to store your information. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1 – the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.

You can donate from anywhere. Donations by US taxpayers are tax deductible. If you want your donation to be tax deductible and do not pay your taxes in the USA, please contact us (details here).

Absolutely! Once you reach the payment stage at Every.org, choose the 'DAF' option. Choose to donate directly via Chariot and automatically initiate a grant from your DAF or request instructions to initiate a manual DAF donation.

To donate now, click here.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact us (details here) and we'd be happy to help.

We don't charge any fees. 100% of your donation goes to the charities you select. The only additional fees you may incur are payment processing fees charged by our payment providers. Our donations distributor, Every.org, does everything it can to reduce these fees as much as possible.

We're able to run FarmKind without charging fees because we're funded by individuals and foundations that believe in our mission to help everyone be a part of making farming kinder for animals, people, and the planet.

First, each donation you make goes to Every.org, which immediately issues a receipt for your charitable contribution and then a disbursement to the nonprofit you chose.

Every.org aggregates donations from all of our donors and periodically makes disbursements. If the nonprofit you chose has a bank account connected to Every.org, the charity can request payouts at any time and cadence. Otherwise, Every.org disburses to nonprofits in partnership with Network for Good, another 501(c)(3) nonprofit. On a monthly basis, Network for Good issues lump-sum grants to selected nonprofits.

This process ensures your eligibility for a tax deduction (for US donors) and consolidated records of your giving, as well as reduces the administrative burden of the nonprofits to process multiple small donations from hundreds of donors.

When you click donate, you'll be temporarily sent to our donation distributor, Every.org. Every.org securely handles your donation using Stripe to process your information and payment. Every.org then lets us know that you've made a donation. Every.org is a nonprofit and doesn't take any portion of your donation for itself, nor does it sell your data.

We work with Every.org because they are a trusted provider that has raised over $50 million and is used by thousands of nonprofits, providing a secure donation system that keeps your information safe and ensures your donation is delivered to your chosen charity.

Every.org is a nonprofit that helps us process donations to our recommended charities. We work with Every.org because they're a trusted system that has raised over $50 million and is used by thousands of nonprofits, providing a secure donation system that keeps your information safe and ensures your donation is delivered to your chosen charity.

Every.org also relies on donations, so they ask donors to make an optional donation to support their services. Supporting Every.org is not required, so just set the slider to 0% if you don't want to donate to them.

Great question! Our impact estimate during the donation process shows roughly how many animals our charities have been able to help with this amount of money. While an animal's life can be made significantly better through donating, a charity's work may not have made the treatment of each animal completely humane yet i.e. there may be remaining cruel practices to phase out. So when it comes to the Compassion Calculator (which estimates how much it would cost charities to do as much good for animals as they experience on factory farms), one generally needs to help more animals than they consume to offset all of the harms. This is why donating the amount suggested (to do as much good as your diet does harm) will show that you're helping more animals than were required to produce your food.

Doesn't answer your question?

Totally fair -- our offset formula can be a bit unintuitive! Please email (details here) and let us know where we're unclear, so we can fully answer your question and improve this explanation for future donors.

If you have any questions that aren't answered below, or would like to talk to us about your donation, please send us an email (details here).

Please email press@farmkind.giving and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

We'd be happy to help! You can contact us by email (details here). We can provide additional advice on making the most of your donation or help with tax deductibility for non-US tax-paying donors.

We work with expert charity evaluators to identify charities that are transparent about how they spend their money, can provide evidence that their work is making a difference, and are likely to do a lot of good per dollar spent.

All of our super-effective charities have been recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We also take advice from other expert assessors of animal charities to ensure that our curated list is well-tailored and balanced, improving farming for people, the planet, and animals.

We do not claim that our recommended charities are the only super-effective charities out there, but we're confident that donating to these charities will ensure your donation goes as far as possible to fix factory farming.

More information is available here.

At this time, only charities that have at some point been recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators are eligible for consideration. We will update our recommendations periodically and will reach out to eligible charities at this time, so there's no need to get in proactively.

To make donating even easier, we have aggregated our recommended charities into two funds: the Impact Fund and Climate Fund.

The Impact Fund includes all of our recommended charities, while the Climate Fund includes recommended charities with programs that push for climate-friendly reforms e.g. promoting the development of alternative proteins; pressuring financial institutions to divest from unsustainable farming practices; promoting low-carbon, plant-based options to big organizations; fighting corporate greenwashing, etc.

These funds enable you to contribute across a spectrum of charities so that you don't have to limit your support to just one organization or effort.

One of the ways FarmKind encourages more people to help fix factory farming is by offering matching funds that boost donations. Whether it's during special occasions like Giving Tuesday, through ambassador partnerships, or personal referral codes, these matching opportunities inspire people to give, and to give more generously.

These matching funds come from FarmKind's Bonus Fund, a finite pool that some of our donors choose to donate to, in order to make their donation go even further by using it to encourage others.

If you become a bonus supporter, then your donation will go to our bonus fund. The money will, guaranteed, be donated to charity. But, by donating to the fund you are helping us to continue to match people's donations, encouraging more people to donate to help make farming kinder. You'll generate more support for the charities working to make farming kinder than if you donated to them directly, because each dollar donated into our bonus system will indirectly cause more than a dollar to be donated to highly effective charities, on average.

If, for any reason, we stop running matching campaigns, any money remaining in the bonus fund will be distributed between our recommended charities. We won't keep a cent.

We have a detailed explainer about how the bonus fund works here.

Our bonus fund is a powerful tool for encouraging more donations to make farming kinder, but its survival relies on people choosing to become bonus supporters. You can donate to the fund here.

When you make a donation through FarmKind, the information about the charity and the amount you donate is shared with our donation distributor, Every.org. Your payment information is handled by Stripe to ensure security and privacy.

We will never sell your email address or any other data we have about you to anyone. See our privacy policy for full details.

Yes! Neither FarmKind nor our donation distribution service, Every.org, handles your payment information. Instead, we use Stripe, a leader in global internet payments, to store your payment information. Stripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1 – the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.