Global Animal Welfare Fund keeps funding ready so vetted rescue organisations can act immediately — no campaigns, no delays, no animals left waiting.
Donate nowWhy we exist
Rescuers have the skills, the heart, and the drive, but they are often held back
by empty bank accounts.
Global Animal Welfare Fund exists to help close that gap.
One unexpected vet bill can bring a rescue to a standstill. Treatment gets delayed, animals suffer, and the team absorbs a cost they can't afford.
Rescued animals still need to eat tomorrow, even when donations dry up. The daily costs of shelter, feed, and medical supplies never stop.
Transport, enclosures, equipment and the ability to move fast when disaster strikes. Without these, even experienced rescue teams are limited in what they can do.
Funding in action
Funding in action
In 2021, Sneha’s Care in Nepal received an urgent call. A pig later named Mr Piggles, had become trapped in rising floodwater, exhausted and unable to escape. The rescue would take hours and require transport, equipment, a full rescue team, and immediate veterinary care once he was safely out.
Sneha’s Care had the people and the experience. What they needed was the funding to act, and Global Animal Welfare Fund was already there.
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How Your Dollar Reaches the front line
Global Animal Welfare Fund vets rescue organisations, allocates funding toward specific purposes, and reports back on every dollar.
Frontline teams submit funding gaps, spanning medical emergencies, infrastructure repairs, unique frontline needs and ongoing care.
Requests are carefully vetted to ensure funding supports legitimate, high-impact animal welfare work.
Funding is strategically allocated toward specific welfare needs.
We publish every allocation, which organisation, what purpose, what outcome.
Frontline teams submit funding gaps, spanning medical emergencies, infrastructure repairs, unique frontline needs and ongoing care.
Requests are carefully vetted to ensure funding supports legitimate, high-impact animal welfare work.
Funding is strategically allocated toward specific welfare needs.
We publish every allocation, which organisation, what purpose, what outcome.
Why Give
Many charities ask you to trust where your donation goes.
Global Animal Welfare Fund shows you.
Donations are pooled into ready funding and deployed the moment need is confirmed — directed by a volunteer committee toward vetted partners, named purposes, and measurable outcomes. Every allocation is published publicly. No exceptions.
Ready funding. Named allocations. Every outcome on the record.
Where your donation goes matters
Trusted support
Real feedback from the organisations receiving support, and the donors helping make that support possible.
“Global Animal Welfare Fund’s support has been truly impactful, not just once, but through continuous and unwavering commitment.
Because of you, we’ve been able to rescue dogs from the meat trade, provide critical medical care, and respond to emergencies like floods and fires.
You haven’t just supported us, you’ve made a real difference in the lives of animals who had no one else.”
“The support from Global Animal Welfare Fund has made such a meaningful difference to our sanctuary and the animals in our care.
“We were staring at a $2,500 vet bill. Their support meant we could continue saving lives.”
“I love knowing exactly where my money is going. It’s not just a donation into a void, you can actually see the projects and the impact.”
Sarah L. · Supporter“Global Animal Welfare Fund feels completely different to other charities I’ve donated to. The updates and transparency make the support feel real.”
Emma R. · Supporter“It’s the first time I’ve felt genuinely confident donating. You can clearly see where the funding is going, what it supports, and the difference it helps make for animals on the ground.”
Michael T. · SupporterSupport Animal Care
Allocated to active frontline projects and emergency reserves — every dollar purposefully directed, every outcome reported back to you.
Put It to Work →The cost of waiting
In November 2024, a fire tore through a Beijing shelter. 108 animals didn't make it. Neither did Lijie — the woman who ran back in to try to save them.
World of Angels stepped forward to take in 13 survivors. They refused to turn a single one away.
Without funding, those 13 dogs don't get transport. They don't get veterinary care in the days after the fire. A team already at its limit absorbs an impossible cost — or makes a decision no rescuer should ever have to make. Which animals get help. And which ones wait.
GAWF closed the gap. Within days, all 13 were in care.
Every last one of them made it to a forever home.
This is why the funding has to be ready before the call comes in.
Impact story
One shelter. Thirteen survivors. The story behind one of the most devastating emergencies GAWF has helped fund.
Read Lijie’s full story →Current funding priorities
Global Animal Welfare Fund supports vetted frontline animal welfare projects while also maintaining emergency reserve funding for urgent rescue situations.
Active project
When a working ox slows down in Budaka, farmers don't rest them. They hurt them. BORRI is on the ground to pull these animals out of that cycle — and make sure they don't go back. First: a triage sanctuary where injured animals get the veterinary care they need. Then: a re-education program for 500 local farmers, reframing humane handling not as an ethical ask, but as better farming.
Active project · Ongoing partner
Sneha's Care has been on the frontlines in Nepal for years — rescuing, treating, refusing to look away. They built this clinic with their own hands. Then a fuel crisis drove up construction costs faster than anyone could plan for, and now animals in need are waiting on a building that's metres from done. $10,000 is already in. $10,000 more finishes it for good.
Alongside active projects, Global Animal Welfare Fund builds reserve funding so vetted rescue organisations can receive support quickly when unexpected emergencies arise.
The goal is simple: when a rescue organisation comes asking for help, Global Animal Welfare Fund can support quickly, without delay.
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June Frontline Goal
Rescue organisations can’t stop feeding animals when donations dip. They can’t delay treatment because budgets are tight.
They stretch resources. They absorb the pressure. They make difficult choices quietly.
Consistent funding changes that.
It gives frontline teams the stability to plan ahead, respond faster, and protect animals without compromise.
Your donation helps close that gap.
Proof, Not Promises
Your support joins a pre-vetted network reaching from flood recovery in Australia to urgent rescues in Nepal. This is where the proof lands.
Hover over any location to see exactly what your funding made possible. Tap any location to see exactly what your funding made possible.
GAWF's most funded territory, seven organisations supported across wildlife, farm animals, and special-needs rescue. Koalas pulled from bushfires, blind cows given purpose-built shelter, wombat orphanages built, and a thermal drone purchased to find animals others can't. $44,000+ and counting.
Funded World of Angels through some of the most urgent rescues in GAWF's history — 18 dogs off a Beijing rooftop, 17 pulled from slaughter, and immediate disaster relief after a shelter fire claimed 108 animals and their rescuer, Liji.
Funded Sneha's Care through land purchase for a permanent sanctuary, Mr Piggles' flood rescue mission, and construction of a new shelter and vet clinic. $30,000+ across multiple years.
Funded critical vehicle repairs for Vertvet Monkey Foundation — the transport essential to rescue operations, vet trips, water access, and keeping animals fed. $3,000 that kept the whole operation moving.
Funded a new shelter and hospital wing for Villa Kitty Bali — purpose-built rehabilitation space for rescued street cats. $5,000 in June 2021.
Funded PASH's new boarding facility — purpose-built space to safely house more cats and dogs on-site. $2,000 in April 2026.
Below are a few of the real funding allocations behind those markers.
Emergency farm animal rescue. Funded urgent rescue operations for abandoned farm animals, including a complex 10-hour mission to save a pig found trapped in life-threatening conditions.
Sanctuary land secured. Helped secure land for a permanent sanctuary, creating a safe, long-term home for rescued animals.
Supported the development of essential infrastructure, enabling expanded rescue capacity and ongoing veterinary care.
Emergency flood recovery. Funded enclosure repairs, fencing, and urgent veterinary medicine.
Hen rescue & rehabilitation. Covered medical care and rehoming for rescued battery hens.
Horse sanctuary expansion. Provided materials and labor for a new, weather-proof horse shelter.
Emergency rescue & medical care. Funded the rooftop rescue and transport of 18 dogs, including 16 puppies, escaping the meat trade, plus critical surgeries and operational costs.
Shelter fire relief. Provided immediate emergency funds following a devastating shelter fire that tragically claimed the lives of 108 animals and their dedicated rescuer.
Meat trade interception. Secured space, transport, and urgent care for 17 dogs pulled directly from the dog meat trade and overcrowded holding facilities.
We fund urgent, practical needs that have a clear and immediate impact on animal welfare.
When a rescue organisation submits a funding request, we review their track record, welfare standards, transparency, and ability to deliver the project effectively.
We prioritise time-sensitive, tangible gaps such as emergency veterinary care, infrastructure repairs, transport, or critical supplies.
We also work alongside an experienced voluntary Board of Directors with extensive backgrounds in animal welfare and animal rights, who help review and vet funding decisions.
Yes. Global Animal Welfare Fund exists to help ensure vetted rescue organisations have funding available when animals urgently need help.
Rather than operating as a broad general donation pool, funding is strategically allocated toward specific frontline needs, such as emergency veterinary care, rescue operations, transport, shelter upgrades, rehabilitation, and ongoing animal care.
Our role is to help remove the financial delays that can prevent rescuers from acting quickly when emergencies happen.
We also operate with no salaried staff overheads, helping ensure public donations remain focused on animal welfare projects and urgent frontline needs.
Global Animal Welfare Fund was originally created after years of personally funding frontline rescue work and animal welfare initiatives through our own business operations.
However, the scale of the global animal welfare crisis is far greater than any one organisation can fund alone.
We created Global Animal Welfare Fund to build a transparent, structured way for the public to directly support urgent frontline rescue needs alongside us.
Yes. Transparency and measurable impact are a core part of our funding model.
Once a project is completed, we share real updates, outcomes, and progress from the rescue organisations receiving support.
Whether it’s emergency veterinary treatment, a rescue transport mission, infrastructure repairs, or ongoing care, we want donors to clearly see how their support made a difference.
Yes. We actively work with verified frontline rescue organisations and sanctuaries facing urgent financial gaps.
If you represent a rescue organisation in need of support, you can visit our Apply for Funding page to review our criteria and submit a funding request.
Yes. Global Animal Welfare Fund is a registered Australian charity operating with a global mission to support frontline animal welfare projects.
While we are based in Australia, we work with vetted rescue organisations and sanctuaries internationally where urgent funding is needed most.
At this stage, donations to Global Animal Welfare Fund are not tax-deductible.
While we are a registered Australian charity, Australian tax law generally only grants tax-deductible status to animal charities directly operating animal care facilities or services within Australia.
Many well-known Australian animal welfare organisations operating internationally are also not tax-deductible for this reason.
The vast majority of public donations go directly toward frontline animal welfare projects and urgent rescue needs.
Donations are processed securely through Fundraise Up, which charges a 4% platform fee in addition to standard Stripe or PayPal payment processing fees.
Donors also have the option to help cover these processing costs during checkout, and the majority choose to do so.
Global Animal Welfare Fund operates with no salaried staff overheads, helping keep operational costs as low as possible and funding focused on frontline impact.
Stories from the frontlines of animal rescue and the projects your support makes possible.
A transparent look at how Global Animal Welfare Fund works, why we fund frontline organisations instead of running our own shelter, and how donations turn into real care.
Read Story →How Happily Heifer After gave hundreds of vulnerable farm animals a second chance, with support for flood recovery, urgent vet care, and long-term shelter infrastructure.
Read Story →How World of Angels Foundation stepped in after a devastating shelter fire, helping 13 surviving dogs receive urgent care, safety, and a second chance.
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