Animals in our food systems: 2 billion
Animals tracked on our dashboards: Zero

India Animal Fund was started because animal welfare was chronically underfunded in the country

Animal welfare intersects with public health, climate resilience, sustainability, and food security. It touches nearly every SDG but remains an emotional rather than a strategic giving decision. Using the One Health interconnected approach, we identify white spaces across animal, human, and environmental health, enable interventions, and effectively direct capital in measurable ways.

When animals thrive, so does the world.

India Animal Fund was started because animal welfare was chronically underfunded in the country...

… despite intersections with public health, climate resilience, sustainability, and food security. It touches nearly every SDG but remains an emotional rather than a strategic giving decision.

Using the One Health approach, IAF creates points of interconnections within and outside the animal welfare ecosystem using the levers of financial, relationship, and intellectual capital. 

When animals thrive, so does the world.

FUNDS DIRECTED
0%
Farmed animal welfare
0%
Other animal welfare
0%
Operational spends

How change happens

We enable

FINANCIAL CAPITAL

RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Short-term gains

More money reaches

  • Early-stage work
  • Pilots
  • Diverse initiatives
New stakeholders enter
New relationships are built
Better insights to inform industry shifts

Medium-term wins

Farmed animal welfare is embedded in CSR and ESG
Diverse funding sources created
More anchor funders
More visibility of NGO work
More integration
Intersectional shifts occur

Outcome

Farmed animal welfare giving becomes systemic, not emotional or charitable
An interconnected ecosystem of companies, NGOs, academia, research and practice
Farmed animal welfare knowledge and insights are embedded in social sector knowledge areas

Impact

India has what it takes to remove 2 billion animals from its food systems

How change happens

How change happens

If we do these

As a trusted intermediary — not an implementer — with no bias toward any single approach

These things happen in the short-term

DIRECT RESULTS

Leading to these changes in the medium-term

Resulting in

Change

India has what it takes to remove 2 billion animals from its food systems

How change happens

We enable

FINANCIAL CAPITAL

RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

This happens

More money reaches high-impact & early-stage work
New stakeholders enter
Insights to inform shifts become available

Leading to this

Animal welfare is embedded in CSR and ESG
Partners gain visibility and reach
Policy and institutional shifts start to appear

Resulting in

A well-resourced & connected farmed animal welfare ecosystem
Farmed animal welfare seen as a systemic, not charitable issue

Change

India has what it takes to remove 2 billion animals from its food systems

Team

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Bharati Ramachandran
Media and Communications Advisor
3
Dhivakar Steil
Lead – Institutional Partnerships & Strategy
5
Rekha Raghunathan
Chief Executive Officer
6
Richa Govil
Operations Manager
7
Shivani Khanwalkar
Head - Partnerships and Development

Board

2
Anand Siva
Board Member
1
CK Venkataraman
Board Member
4
Parag Agarwal
Founder and Board Member
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Sonali Kulkarni
Board Member

Where the money goes, and what it did

IAF Financials

IAF annual reports

2022-2023

2023-2024

2024-2025