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Timeline of Animal Charity Evaluators

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| 2012 || November 10 || Interview || EAA publishes an interview with Brian Tomasik, who spent several years writing essays about how to most effectively reduce suffering in the world. Tomasik recommends donating to {{w|Vegan Outreach}} and/or {{w|The Humane League}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN TOMASIK |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/interview-with-brian-tomasik/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2012–2013 || {{w|| Funding Donation}} || Patrick Brinich-Langlois and Brian Tomasik are rated at the first position among EAA top donors.<ref name="TOP DONORS"/>
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| 2013 || April || Staff || EAA hires its first employee, Jon Bockman, as Executive Director.<ref name="2015 YEAR IN REVIEW">{{cite web |title=2015 YEAR IN REVIEW |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ACE_2015_Year_In_Review.pdf |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2014 || December || Review || ACE publishes its first review on New Harvest, a {{w|501(c) organization}} which funds academic research in {{w|cellular agriculture}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=NEW HARVEST |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/new-harvest/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || || Funding {{w|Donation}} || Simon and Linda Knutsson are rated at the first position among top donors.<ref name="TOP DONORS">{{cite web |title=TOP DONORS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/contributors/top-donors/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=8 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2014 || Year-round || Financial || ACE moves US$147,239 throughout the year (counting donations through its website as well as donations made elsewhere that donors reported as influenced by ACE).<ref name="We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators"/>
| 2015 || December || Charity review || ACE publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked {{w|Nonhuman Rights Project}}, citing it as the only organization ACE knows of working directly towards attaining legal personhood and rights for nonhuman animals.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT (NHRP) |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-nonhuman-rights-project/2015-dec/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> ACE also publishes its first review on Standout Charity-ranked {{w|Faunalytics}}, which works to connect animal advocates with information.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAUNALYTICS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/faunalytics/2015-dec/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> It also publishes its first review on Faunalytics.<ref>{{cite web |title=FAUNALYTICS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/faunalytics/2015-dec/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref> Other charities ACE reviews for the first time include [[w:Animal Ethics (organization)|Animal Ethics]]<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMAL ETHICS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/animal-ethics/2015-dec/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>, Compassion in World Farming International<ref>{{cite web |title=COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INTERNATIONAL (COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL) |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/compassion-in-world-farming/2015-dec/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>, and {{w|Centre for Animals and Social Justice}}<ref>{{cite web |title=CENTRE FOR ANIMALS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (CASJ) |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/centre-for-animals-and-social-justice-casj/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>.
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| 2015 || || Funding {{w|Donation}} || Greenbaum Foundation, Thomas Mather, Martin Jacobson, and Jorge Lugo are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors.<ref name="TOP DONORS"/>
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| 2015 || Year-round || Statistics || Throughout the year ACE reviews 203 charities, conducts 19 conversations and interviews and receives 348,641 website visiors to <code>animalcharityevaluators.org</code>.<ref name="2015 YEAR IN REVIEW"/> ACE also moves US$828,156 to its recommended charities.<ref name="We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators"/><ref name="2015 YEAR IN REVIEW"/>
| 2016 || || Interview || ACE publishes an interview with Brad Goldberg, who organized in 2001 the Animal Welfare Trust (AWT) as a private operating foundation dedicated to animal protection and animal rights issues. In the interview, Goldberg defines Animal Studies ideally as an interdisciplinary academic program that includes the relationship with food, law, public policy, the arts, ethics, etc., and also states that animal issues touch on virtually every aspect of human life, and the moral status of animals should be of great universal concern.<ref>{{cite web |title=INTERVIEW WITH BRAD GOLDBERG |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/advocacy-interventions/advocacy-advice/learn-from-professionals/brad-goldberg/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=21 July 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || || {{w|Donation}} || Matt Ashton, The Greenbaum Foundation, Jorge Lugo, and Thomas Mather are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors. <ref name="TOP DONORS"/>
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| 2016 || Year-round || Financial || ACE moves US$3,574,048 throughout the year (counting donations through its website as well as donations made elsewhere that donors reported as influenced by ACE).<ref name="We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators">{{cite web |title=We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2017 charity recommendations. Ask us anything! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/7gn7mt/were_researchers_from_animal_charity_evaluators/ |website=reddit.com |accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || Year round || || ACE helps direct more than US$3.5 million to their recommended charities.<ref name="Dissertation Kathryn"/>
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| 2017 || June 9 || Donation || ACE announces a grant awarded by the {{w|Open Philanthropy Project}}, totalling US$500,000, with its disbursement to be spread over a two-year period.<ref>{{cite web |title=ON RECEIVING A GRANT FROM THE OPEN PHILANTHROPY PROJECT |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/on-receiving-a-grant-from-the-open-philanthropy-project/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || June 9 || Policy || ACE announces setting a donation cap of US$1 million, meaning that every penny over that amount in unrestricted donations raised to support ACE’s work in the year would be allocated to ACE's Recommended Charities Fund and regranted to its recommended charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE FUNDRAISING RESTRICTIONS |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/ace-fundraising-restrictions/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref>
| 2017 || November || Review || ACE writes review on AnimaNaturalis International, an organization working to reduce the suffering of animals in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANIMANATURALIS INTERNACIONAL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/animanaturalis/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref> It also writes its first review on L214, which works to reduce the suffering of farmed animals in {{w|France}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=L214 |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/l214-ethique-et-animaux/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || Year round || || Thomas MatherACE influences US$6 million in donations to effective animal charities, and receives grants from both the Open Philanthropy Project, Morgan & Michael C. Hall, Jorge Lugo, Martin Crowley, Matt Ashton, craigslist Charitable and the EA Animal Welfare Fund, Richard Wernick, S.N., Eivind & Kristin Vesterkjær, and Nate Liu are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donorsothers.<ref name="TOP DONORSDiscussion with Animal Charity Evaluators (RSVP required)">{{cite web |title=Discussion with Animal Charity Evaluators (RSVP required) |url=https://www.meetup.com/Effective-Altruism-NYC/events/254601403/|website=meetup.com |accessdate=8 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || Year round || || ACE influences US$6 million in donations to effective animal charitiesThomas Mather, and receives grants from both the {{w|Open Philanthropy Project }}, Morgan & Michael C. Hall, Jorge Lugo, Martin Crowley, Matt Ashton, craigslist Charitable Fund, Richard Wernick, S.N., Eivind & Kristin Vesterkjær, and Nate Liu are rated at the EA Animal Welfare Fundfirst position among ACE's Top Donors.<ref name="Discussion with Animal Charity Evaluators (RSVP required)TOP DONORS">{{cite web |title=Discussion with Animal Charity Evaluators (RSVP required) |url=https://www.meetup.com/Effective-Altruism-NYC/events/254601403/ |website=meetup.com |accessdate=8 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || February 23 || {{w|Fundraising}} || ACE announces a new fundraising cap for unrestricted donations at US$1.25 million, a 25% increase from its 2017 cap. It includes the amount ACE believes could be raised and spent efficiently as well as some additional funds to fill out a full year of reserves. Some additions made to the 2018 budget include recruiting people, providing full-year salaries, increasing salaries, increasing the size of grants, adding a number of software services, and hiring contractors during the busiest time of the year.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE’S ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2018 |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/aces-room-for-more-funding-in-2018/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || November || Review || ACE publishes its first review on a number of organizations, including the Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira (rated Standout Charity: Special Interest)<ref>{{cite web |title=SOCIEDADE VEGETARIANA BRASILEIRA |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/sociedade-vegetariana-brasileira-svb/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>, Sinergia Animal, a Brazilian organization operating in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina<ref>{{cite web |title=SINERGIA ANIMAL |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/sinergia-animal/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>, The Humane Society of the United States<ref>{{cite web |title=HSUS FARM ANIMAL PROTECTION CAMPAIGN |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/hsus-farm-animal-protection-campaign/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>, The Save Movement<ref>{{cite web |title=THE SAVE MOVEMENT |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-save-movement/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>, and the Cellular Agriculture Society.<ref>{{cite web |title=CELLULAR AGRICULTURE SOCIETY |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/cellular-agriculture-society/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=7 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || || {{w|Donation}} || Animal Welfare Fund (Centre for Effective Altruism’s EA Funds), the {{w|Open Philanthropy Project}}, Ariel Nessel, Jorge Lugo, craigslist Charitable Fund, Morgan & Michael C. Hall, Eivind and Kristin Vesterkjaer, and Martin Crowley are rated at the first position among ACE's Top Donors.<ref name="TOP DONORS"/>
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| 2019 || January 19 || Staff || ACE announces Leah Edgerton as its new Executive Director.<ref>{{cite web |title=ANNOUNCING ACE’S NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/announcing-aces-new-executive-Director/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=5 December 2019}}</ref>
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