India Animal Welfare Funding Circle: Round 1 Results and Reflections

Published on May 13, 2026 4:11 AM GMT 1. The funding gap 314 organisations applied to the first round of the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle, which we launched in December, 2025 . Looking at what got funded versus what applied, the two pictures are almost completely inverted. The largest categories of applications, direct care and livelihoods-focused work, contributed least to the funded portfolio. The smallest applicant categories, research, policy, and plant-based work, contributed the mos