Direct Relief
- purpose: to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay
- more info: Charity Navigator, BBB Charity, Wikipedia
Gaviota Coast Conservancy
- purpose: dedicated to permanently protecting the rural character and environmental integrity of the Gaviota Coast for present and future generations
- more info: Charity Navigator, Land Trust Alliance, 1% for the Planet
Winter Nights Family Shelter
- purpose: protect homeless families by providing shelter in a clean, safe, and warm environment and to help them break the homelessness cycle by assisting them toward self-sufficiency and into stable housing
- more info: Charity Navigator
Girls in Engineering
- purpose: enables Santa Cruz and Monterey County middle school students to create their very own robots, imagine themselves as computer scientists and engineers, and explore the careers and educational opportunities available to them in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields
- more info: Charity Navigator
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
- purpose: to foster the restoration and revival of indigenous California language so that they may be retained as a permanent part of the living cultures of native California
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hollywood Food Coalition
- purpose: to nourish the community by rescuing and distributing food, preparing nightly meals, and uniting efforts to achieve food equity
- more info: Charity Navigator
Project Ropa
- purpose: to reduce textile waste and restore dignity to individuals experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty by providing clean clothing and hygiene essentials
- more info: Charity Navigator, NBC Los Angeles (2023)
Fairfax Mutual Aid
- purpose: a collective of local volunteers organizing material resources, care-based support and companionship to unhoused and housing insecure constituents in multiple districts in Los Angeles
- more info: Charity Navigator
Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic
- purpose: to advance the rights of the immigrant population in East Los Angeles through direct legal services, education, and community empowerment while teaching law students effective immigrants’ rights lawyering skills in a real-world setting
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County
- purpose: to assist children and families, prisoners, and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between those we serve, the community at large, and the criminal justice system, thereby enhancing the character of justice
- more info: Charity Navigator
OC Animal Allies
- purpose: dedicated to supporting Orange County families and their animals
- more info: Charity Navigator
Access California Services
- purpose: a culturally sensitive community-based organization dedicated to empowering all underserved populations, with a focus on Arab- American & Muslim- American communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
STAND! For Families Free of Violence
- purpose: a catalyst for breaking the multi-generational cycle of violence, promoting safe and strong relationships, and rebuilding lives
- more info: Charity Navigator
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
- purpose: leading the fight to end hunger, in partnership with our community and in service of our neighbors in need
- more info: Charity Navigator
Freedom for Immigrants
- purpose: an abolitionist organization that envisions a world without prisons or cages of any kind
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Placer SPCA
- purpose: to enhance the lives of companion animals and support the human-animal bond
- more info: Charity Navigator
Reality Changers
- purpose: prepare youth to become first-generation college graduates and agents of change in their communities
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia
Friends of Ballona Wetlands
- purpose: championing the restoration and protection of Los Angeles’ last coastal wetland and educating our diverse community as stewards of nature
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia
A Community of Friends
- purpose: to end homelessness through the provision of quality permanent supportive housing for people with mental illness
- more info: Charity Navigator
Community Works
- purpose: to transform justice through programs and policy rooted in humanity and healing
- more info: Giving Compass, Charity Navigator
Access Central Coast
- purpose: to promote independent living and full access for individuals with disabilities in our communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- purpose: to work for an end to mass incarceration, detention, and deportation and to seek dignity, freedom, and equity for people suffering under the weight of oppressive policies and institutions
- more info: Charity Navigator, Sojourners
5Cities Homeless Coalition
- purpose: assists those who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness to achieve housing stability, self-sufficiency, and improved health by providing resources, supportive services, and programs
- more info: Charity Navigator
The Lupine Collaborative
- purpose: catalyzes Black women, non-binary, and transgender climate and environmental writers to develop, create, and publish climate & environmental writing
- more info: Charity Navigator
Safe Return Project
- purpose: to end mass incarceration and mass criminalization of black people and people of color and to re-enfranchise individuals and communities that have been disenfranchised as a result of criminalization, racial disparity, and poverty
- more info: Charity Navigator, RichmondSide
Visión y Compromiso
- purpose: committed to community well being by supporting promotores and community health workers
- more info: Charity Navigator
Bright Futures Candles
- sells candles, provides employment for women in Home Start's housing programs
- more info: Charity Navigator, Home Start
Home Start
- purpose: to assure the safety and resiliency of children by strengthening families and their communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Opening Doors
- purpose: to enrich communities by supporting immigrants, refugees, and survivors of trafficking on their path to stability, self-sufficiency, and belonging
- more info: Charity Navigator
Líderes Campesinas
- purpose: to strengthen the leadership of farmworker women and youth so that they can be agents of economic, social and political change and ensure their human rights
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia, NRDC