The ASPCA Open-Access Publishing Fund pays open-access publication fees for high-impact animal welfare research to increase scientific visibility and accessibility.
The 2026 ASPCA Research Grants fund innovative research to improve animal welfare in veterinary care, shelter practices, cruelty prevention, farm animal welfare, trauma, and animal behavior.
The ASPCA provides major grants to U.S. animal shelters and spay/neuter clinics for infrastructure, operations, and innovative projects that advance animal welfare and expand spay/neuter capacity, with an emphasis on measurable impact.
ASP Small Research Grant supports primate researchers’ hypothesis-driven studies and education or outreach to understand processes shaping primate biology and behavior and give back to communities.
ASP Melinda Novak Primate Welfare Grant supports researchers testing innovative welfare ideas to improve nonhuman primates' lives in captive, semi-free-ranging, and wild settings.
Acorn Grants support scientists and multidisciplinary teams with seed funding to test innovative canine health ideas and generate preliminary data for larger or longer-term research.