America's Best Local Charities
Friends of the Marin County Free Library
Providing supplemental financial support of library services/materials to further education and literacy. Summer Reading and other child, teen, and adult programs are our focus.
Market Street Railway Company
Bringing San Francisco’s transit history to life. We acquire, restore and support operation of Muni’s vintage streetcars, and operate the San Francisco Railway Museum.
California Shakespeare Theater
With Shakespeare’s depth of humanity as our touchstone, we build character and community through authentic, inclusive, and joyful theater experiences.
North Bay Developmental Disabilities Services
Coordinates and purchases services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families, or infants and toddlers who are at risk for developmental disabilities.
Create Now!
35,000 most troubled kids served through therapeutic music, dance, writing, art and theater. Thousands vulnerable children attend concerts and plays. Arts mentoring transforms lives!
United Irish Cultural Center
The ICCC is the hub of all things Irish. The Centre is a unique space to come together to celebrate the Irish: past, present, future.
DayBreak Adult Care Centers
Daytime programs for frail seniors protect health, prevent institutionalization and provide caregiver support. Scholarship fund preserves care during crises; Quality medication and injury prevention services.
Jenny Lin Foundation
Our children need our help and care to succeed. We offer safety awareness programs, music enrichment and scholarship programs to the Bay Area communities.
Performing Arts Workshop
If we don’t have arts in our schools, we don’t have education in our schools. Help ignite young minds through the arts!
America’s Best Local Charities
Making your community a better place to live. LIC charities educate children, feed and shelter the homeless, strengthen families, rescue unwanted animals and much more.
San Francisco Symphony
Sets the highest possible standard for excellence in musical performance; Provides the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
We serve over 140,000 members of the community annually, sparking intercultural discovery through art, education, and engagement.
Saving Horses, Changing Lives
WTH rescues, trains, facilitates foster placements, converts unused pasture, re-homes horses. We include at risk youth in our services which is beneficial to horses/youth.
Breathe California Central Coast
Since 1952 we’ve worked on the Central Coast to ensure breathing is not a struggle or risk — if you can breathe — be grateful!
St. Anthony Foundation
St. Anthony Foundation provides life-sustaining services to poor or homeless seniors, veterans, immigrants and the working poor and works on long-term solutions to poverty.
Children’s Center Of The Antelope Valley
Helping children overcome the effects of abuse, assault, neglect, or mental illness through treatment and family education so they may thrive in safe homes.
Warrior Canine Connection, Inc.
Enlists Warriors in treatment for combat-related stress in a therapeutic mission of learning to train service dogs for their fellow Veterans.
Dogs for Diabetics, Inc.
Provide medical-alert service dogs that detect hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in insulin-dependent diabetics to alert them or others to their condition before they become incapacitated.
Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control
Raises funds for San Francisco’s animal shelter and its partnering rescue organizations. Microchip family companion animals at low to no cost.
Homeless Children’s Network
We provide mental health, family support, case management, parent education, advocacy and consultation services to homeless children, youth and families throughout San Francisco.