America's Best Local Charities
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.
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!
FIRESafe Marin
FIRESafe MARIN: Reduces wildfire hazards and improves fire-safety awareness in Marin County. Provides community resources for mitigating fire danger and enhancing wildfire safety.
Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary
Life long care for rescued and abused farmed animals, and education to the public about humane animal care and practices. Help save these animals.
Jewish Home
Compassionate skilled nursing care and programs provided to 400+ residents and patients in a homelike environment; short-term and rehabilitation services and acute geriatric psychiatry hospital.
Loved Twice
BABY CLOTHES provided to newborns-in-need living in shelters. Help us keep these precious infants warm and clean, giving them a better start in life.
Monkey Tail Ranch
The Monkey Tail Ranch improves people’s lives by cultivating relationships with animals, nature and the community.
Preventing Euthanasia Through Rescue
Millions of adoptable kitties slaughtered in high-kill shelters. We rescue homeless, abandoned and abused kitties, provide veterinary care and find loving homes. Will you help?
10,000 Degrees
We’ve made a breakthrough – 84% of our students complete a four-year degree compared to the national rate of 24 percent for students from low-income households.
Sakura Kai
Enhancing Japanese speaking seniors lives through education. We offer a caring place for them with social, educational, recreational and health activities.