The William and
Charlotte Parks
Foundation for
Animal Welfare
The William and Charlotte Parks Foundation makes grants to support programs, activities or research designed to “eliminate the suffering of animals and the harm inflicted on them,” and “to improve the status of nonhuman animals to a position more in keeping with their sentience, and the demands of human justice and morality.”
These are the words of our founders, William and Charlotte Parks, who wanted their funds directed toward innovative, high-impact grants and initiatives, rather than in support of ordinary organizational expenses and needs, however justifiable.
2025 - 2026 Application process
The grant application window for 2025 - 2026 is April, 1st through April, 30th 2025.
Please review our updated program overview and application instructions before applying.
Grants
The Parks Foundation makes awards, usually not more than $10,000 per annum, to support projects, research, and other activities calculated to advance the welfare of animals.
Eligibility and Program Overview
The Grants Committee makes grants to both animal protection organizations and to individual scholars pursuing work consistent with the goals of the Trust founders.
Grants Awarded
The Parks Foundation is proud to recognize and support the organizations who have been awarded grants in previous years.
About Us
William and Charlotte Parks devised an excellent mechanism to ensure that the funds would go to appropriate projects of which they would have approved. In contrast, a number of other trusts established to support animal welfare before and since the Parks Trust’s formation have not honored their founders’ wishes (as laid out in the original documents establishing those trusts).
Our Mission
The Foundation was established to improve the welfare of animals worldwide through studies of the science and philosophy of animal welfare/rights and to reduce, through practical efforts and initiatives, the suffering and harm inflicted on animals by human beings.