FUNDING AND PRIORITIES SURVEY
Stray Dog Institute believes that it is crucial for animal advocates to have access to accurate, up-to-date information about the animal advocacy movement. Having a clear understanding of funding and priorities across the movement provides the basis for ensuring effective advocacy. With dependable data on how the movement is using its resources, we can be more responsive to the changing funding landscape, addressing blank spots, avoiding unnecessary duplication of efforts, reaching new audiences, and identifying new opportunities.
In prior years, Farmed Animal Funders conducted a State of the Movement survey, last run in 2021. To continue to provide this information for the movement, Stray Dog Institute will conduct an updated State of the Movement survey in Q3 2024 to assess current funding and topics of work across all segments of animal advocacy related to the food system. We plan to repeat this survey on a yearly basis, enabling regular analysis of year-on-year changes and longer-term trends.
What Does the survey include?
The survey asks about organizations’ locations, staff, revenue, expenses, and how those expenses are allocated by geographical location, topics of work, and geographical areas of focus.
Preview the survey here.
How Long wilL the survey stay Open?
The survey is open now and will remain open through September 30, 2024.
Who should fill out the survey?
This survey will welcome the participation of organizations of all sizes, in all locations globally, that do some degree of programmatic work related to helping animals in the food system.
This survey is open to nonprofit organizations worldwide whose core purpose includes directly or indirectly reducing, reforming, or replacing the use of animals in the food system.
The survey will be best filled out by each organization’s executive director, or another staff member with deep understanding of resource allocation and theory of change. We recommend gathering information about staff size, revenue, and expenses from the last fiscal year before starting the survey. It should take most organizations about 30 minutes to complete. We request one response per organization.
How will the Data be Stored and Used?
Survey responses will remain confidential and accessible only to Stray Dog Institute staff and vetted consultants. No individual responses or full data will be shared with funders or other movement organizations. Personal information (e.g., names and emails) will be securely stored and used only for future survey outreach or other data collection initiatives, but never for sales or marketing.
Summary results will be published on Stray Dog Institute’s website and included in the “State of the Movement 2024” report in Q4 2024. All efforts will be made to prevent the identification of organizations in the summary data.
We are committed to sharing the report with movement organizations in a manner which minimizes the potential for misuse by the incumbent animal products industry.
The “State of the Movement 2024” report will include the following uses of survey data:
Descriptive Summaries and Statistics
- Global distribution of organizations and staff
- Movement resources: availability, sources, expenditures (by country, animal, intervention, and outcome)
- Gaps in resources (by region or intervention)
- Dominant interventions by region, country, and organization size
Comparisons
- Previous survey data (once two or more years exist)
- Farmed Animal Funders’ 2021 survey
- Animal Charity Evaluators, Rethink Priorities, Faunalytics’ 2024 studies
Interpretations and Insights
- Conclusions from landscape mapping
- Discussion of gaps and opportunities
- Key takeaways for organizations based on region, size, or focus
