Dwarkesh Podcast fundraiser

Unless you choose a specific charity, your donation will go to FarmKind’s Impact Fund, which is made up of all six of our recommended charities. Think of it like an index fund for impact — a balanced and diversified portfolio of charities tackling factory farming in various different ways:

You’ll help eliminate cruel practices for chickens and pigs, such as confining hens to tiny cages and mutilating piglets. You’ll spare fish from suffering in overcrowded, dirty water and ensure shrimp are slaughtered humanely. You’ll help promote alternative protein innovation and lobby for deregulation of new technologies and removal of unfair subsidies, reducing our reliance on factory-farmed products. All together, you’ll help create a more humane and sustainable food system, benefiting humans, animals, and the environment.

Our six recommended charities are: The Humane League, The Good Food Institute, Sinergia Animal, Shrimp Welfare Project, Fish Welfare Initiative and Dansk Vegetarisk Forening. Meet them here.

Dwarkesh has personally committed to match up to $250,000 of donations. As of Saturday 9th of August, Patrick Collison has committed up to a further $250,000 in matching funds.

This will apply to donations through FarmKind where the code ‘dwarkesh’ is applied before 1st September.

We do the research for you: The top animal charities can help hundreds (if not thousands) of animals with the same donation that some well-known animal charities need to help just one. But identifying the most effective animal charities requires extensive research that's impractical for individual donors. We've done that work by building off the work of Animal Charity Evaluators (who conduct rigorous, public evaluations) and consulting with expert grantmakers — including Lewis Bollard for Open Philanthropy — to curate our recommendations.

Diversification — you don’t have to pick a winner: Our Impact Fund allows you to fuel a diversified portfolio of complementary strategies from corporate campaigns to alternative protein development. It’s like an index fund for animal welfare. This ensures your donation addresses factory farming from multiple angles rather than putting all resources into one approach.

We're an independently funded non-profit: This means we pass on 100% of your donations to our recommended charities, and we have no conflicts of interest. We work with trusted partners like Every.org and Stripe to ensure your donation reaches its destination.

1. Rigorous evaluation: All our charities have undergone rigorous evaluation by Animal Charity Evaluators, with detailed public reports available. Our specific selection was refined in consultation with expert grantmakers — including Lewis Bollard for Open Philanthropy —who direct millions in funding to this space.

2. Track record: Our charities’ track records speak for themselves: They have secured commitments from over 500 major companies (Walmart, KFC, PepsiCo) to phase out cruel practices, helped increase cage-free egg production in the US from 5% to 45%, and influenced hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding for alternative proteins. These aren't theoretical future changes — they're concrete, measurable wins that in many cases have already improved conditions for millions of animals, with transparent documentation of how donations translate to results.