List of charitable foundations
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  • Absolute Return for Kids
    Absolute Return for Kids
    Absolute Return for Kids is an international children's charity based in the United Kingdom.ARK is a registered charity under English law and is based in London...

  • Acorns Children's Hospice
    Acorns Children's Hospice
    Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust is a registered charity, offering a network of care and support to life-limited and life-threatened children and their families across the heart of England. Acorns has three hospices, situated in Birmingham, Walsall and Worcester as well as a Community Team that...

  • ActionAid
    ActionAid
    ActionAid was founded in 1972 as a child sponsorship charity when 88 UK supporters sponsored 88 children in India and Kenya, the focus primarily being to provide children with an education. Global accounts are now reported in Euros and in 2007 and 2008 turnover was close to 180m Euros...

  • Action Against Hunger
    Action Against Hunger
    Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organization with a focus on ending world hunger. Action Against Hunger specializes in responding to emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disaster...

  • Acumen Fund
    Acumen Fund
    Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Its aim is to help build financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor...

  • Adventist Development and Relief Agency
    Adventist Development and Relief Agency
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International is a humanitarian agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief...

  • Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada
    Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada
    The Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Canada is a federally chartered and non-profit organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, that is dedicated to preserving and promoting the achievements of the Canadian aerospace industry.- History :...

  • African Medical and Research Foundation
    African Medical and Research Foundation
    The African Medical and Research Foundation was founded in 1957, by three surgeons as the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa. Three doctors – Sir Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Tom Rees – drew up a groundbreaking plan to provide medical assistance to remote regions of East Africa, where...

  • Aleh Negev
    Aleh Negev
    Aleh Negev is a rehabilitation village for disabled children and adults in southern Israel. Located near Ofakim and covering , it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. The 25-acre village is a mutli-faceted facility designed specifically for people people over the age of 21...

  • Allegheny Foundation
    Allegheny Foundation
    The Allegheny Foundation is a philanthropic organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and part of the Scaife Foundations. Richard Mellon Scaife endowed the foundation and serves as the chairman. It makes grants to historical, educational, political, and environmental organizations, especially...

  • Alpha Sigma Tau National Foundation, Inc.
  • Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation
    Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation
    The Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation is a charitable and philanthropic organization founded by Al-Waleed bin Talal and Princess Ameerah with a mission to help alleviate suffering and transcend international borders globally. The foundation, under Prince Alwaleed, has established centers and programs...

  • Amici del Mondo World Friends Onlus
    Amici del Mondo World Friends Onlus
    Amici del Mondo World Friends Onlus is an independent Italian non-profit association of social utility for international cooperation. Recognized by the Government of Kenya as an NGO, in 2011 obtained the same accreditation at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

  • American Academy in Rome
    American Academy in Rome
    The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

  • American Himalayan Foundation
    American Himalayan Foundation
    The American Himalayan Foundation is a US non-profit organization that helps Tibetans, Sherpas, and Nepalis living throughout the Himalayas. AHF builds schools, plants trees, trains doctors, funds hospitals, takes care of children and the elderly, and restores sacred sites...

  • American India Foundation
    American India Foundation
    The American India Foundation is a nonprofit American organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in India...

  • American Near East Refugee Aid
    American Near East Refugee Aid
    The American Near East Refugee Aid is an American 5013 non-governmental organization that provides humanitarian and development aid to the Middle East, specifically, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Jordan...

  • American Red Cross
    American Red Cross
    The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...

  • America's Second Harvest
    America's Second Harvest
    Feeding America is a United States-based non-profit organization. It consists of a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks and food rescue organizations that serve virtually every county in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. It is the nation's leading hunger-relief charity,...

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969...

  • Artforum Culture Foundation
    Artforum Culture Foundation
    The Artforum Culture Foundation is a private and independent nonprofit organization with legal seat in Thessaloniki, Greece, and contact-offices in Athens, Cologne, Paris, New York. The foundation promotes contemporary art and is engaged in the exchange in and between cultures...

  • Association L'APPEL - help for children victims of conflicts
    L'Appel
    L'Appel was a collaborationist periodicial of Vichy France. It was the organ of the collaborationist French League and edited by the League's leader, Pierre Costantini of the Parti populaire français . Its two main contributors were Robert Julien-Courtine and Paul Riche....

  • Asia Injury Prevention Foundation
    Asia Injury Prevention Foundation
    Asia Injury Prevention Foundation is a non-profit enterprise begun to combat the growing traffic crisis in Southeast Asia...

  • Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization
    Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization
    Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization is an independent organization headquartered in Redondo Beach, California. Founded by Linda Reinstein and Doug Larkin on April 1, 2004, ADAO is the largest victims’ organization dedicated to preventing asbestos-related diseases through education and...

  • The Asia Foundation
  • Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
    Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
    The Association of Gospel Rescue Missions –formerly known as the International Union of Gospel Missions–is a nonprofit organization founded in 1913 whose member missions work to provide emergency shelter, food, youth and family services, and education and job training programs...

  • Atlantic Philanthropies
    Atlantic Philanthropies
    The Atlantic Philanthropies is a private foundation created in 1982 by US businessman Charles F. "Chuck" Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies grant-making supports health and social projects in Australia, Bermuda, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and Viet Nam...

  • Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific
    Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific
    Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific - non-profit organization providing development assistance to the countries of Africa, Asia and the Pacific...


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  • Baan Gerda
    Baan Gerda
    BaanGerda is a humanitarian non-profit organization that looks after AIDS orphans in Thailand. It is a project of the Bangkok-based Children's Rights Foundation. The small village community cares for over 70 children that were born with HIV and whose parents died of Aids...

  • Best Friends Animal Society
    Best Friends Animal Society
    Best Friends Animal Society, founded in its present form in 1984, is an American nonprofit 501 organization that is one of America’s best known animal welfare rescue groups. Best Friends works in outreach programs with shelters, other rescue groups and members nationwide to promote pet adoption,...


Being Human Foundation
  • Better Life, The Foundation for a
    The Foundation for a Better Life
    The Foundation for a Better Life is a non-profit 501 organization founded in 2000 to promote "positive behavioral values"; The Foundation creates public service campaigns to communicate its values, such as honesty, caring, optimism, hard work, and helping others. The Foundation communicates its...

  • Bharat Sevashram Sangha
    Bharat Sevashram Sangha
    Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a Hindu charitable non-governmental organisation in India. It was founded in 1917 by Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj. The Sangha has hundreds of ashrams in India and other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Bangladesh...

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is a 501 non-profit organization whose mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that try to have a measurable impact on youth....

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC is a 501 non-profit organization based in New York City, whose mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that try to have a measurable impact on youth...

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...

  • Boys & Girls Clubs of America
  • Bread for the World
    Bread for the World
    Bread for the World is a non-partisan, Christian citizens' movement in the United States to end hunger. The organization describes itself as a collective Christian voice urging nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad...

  • Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association
    Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association
    The Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association is a non-profit international development organization headquartered in Bremen, Germany and regional offices in India, Indonesia, and Tanzania...

  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund
    Burroughs Wellcome Fund
    The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private, independent biomedical research foundation based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. BWF was the corporate foundation of the Burroughs Wellcome Co. until 1994....

  • Bush Foundation
    Bush Foundation
    The Bush Foundation was created in 1953 by Archibald Granville Bush an American businessman primarily involved with 3M and his wife, Edyth Bassler Bush. The organization awards $40 million a year to philanthropic organizations, primarily located in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest....

  • Bhuniakhali Gram Bikash Kendra (BGBK)

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  • CAFOD
    CAFOD
    The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development, previously known as the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, is a United Kingdom-based international aid agency working to alleviate poverty and suffering in developing. It is funded by the Catholic community in England and Wales, the UK government...

  • The Canadian International Learning Foundation
    The Canadian International Learning Foundation
    The Canadian International Learning Foundation ' is an Ottawa, Canada-based, volunteer-run registered charity which provides and promotes professional education in areas of the world affected by war, illness and poverty .-Mission:...

  • Cardiac Risk in the Young
    Cardiac Risk in the Young
    Cardiac Risk in the Young is a humanitarian charitable organization helping to raise awareness of cardiac risk, Sudden Cardiac Death , Sudden Death Syndrome . Established in May 1995 by Alison Cox and based in the United Kingdom. The former tennis player Mark Cox is one of its patrons...

  • Caritas
    Caritas (charity)
    Caritas Internationalis is a confederate of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide....

  • Casa Pia
    Casa Pia
    The Casa Pia is a Portuguese institution founded by Mary I, known as "Pia" , and organized by Police Intendant Pina Manique in 1780, following the social disarray of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. For almost three centuries, thousands of young boys and girls were raised by Casa Pia, including many...

  • The Carter Center
  • Carthage Foundation
    Carthage Foundation
    The Carthage Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level. From 1985 to 2003 the...

  • Catholic Charities
    Catholic Charities
    Catholic Charities is a network of charities whose aim is "to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire church and other people of good will to do the same." It is one of the largest charities in the United States...

  • Catholic Relief Services
    Catholic Relief Services
    Catholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the U.S. bishops, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 90 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and...

  • CARE International
  • Children At Risk
    Children At Risk
    Children At Risk is a 501 non-profit policy research and advocacy organization in Houston, Texas which focuses on improving children's quality of life. Founded in 1989, its primary areas of focus are poverty, childhood health, public education, and safety issues...

  • Children of Peace International
    Children of Peace International
    Children of Peace International is a humanitarian non-profit organization aiming to serve the charity projects in Vietnam and help developing the capability of the people to help themselves...

  • Children's Defense Fund
    Children's Defense Fund
    The Children's Defense Fund is an American child advocacy and research group, founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. Its motto Leave No Child Behind reflects its mission to advocate on behalf of children...

  • Children's Development Trust
    Children's Development Trust
    The Children's Development Trust is a charity established in the UK in 2008, aimed at helping children and young people develop their individual or group skills in education, sport, the arts, health and wellbeing. The Trust has particularly close ties with Demelza House Hospice Care for Children in...

  • The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
    The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
    The Children's Investment Fund Foundation UK is a large charitable organization in the United Kingdom.It was founded in 2002 by hedge fund manager Chris Hohn and his wife Jamie Cooper-Hohn....

  • Children's National Medical Center
    Children's National Medical Center
    - Introduction :Children’s National Medical Center , is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the Washington, D.C., area and the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta...

  • Child's Dream
    Child's Dream
    Child's Dream is a non-profit charity organization for helping underprivileged children in the Mekong subregion, incorporated in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, and based in Chiang Mai, Thailand...

  • Child Watch Phuket
    Child Watch Phuket
    Child Watch Phuket – humanitarian non-profit organization in Thailand, fighting against child abuse and exploitation. Founded and based in Phuket...

  • Christian Blind Mission International
  • Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities
    Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities
    Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities - non-governmental organization in Thailand. Established in 1986 by Christian Outreach for Relief & Development , UK. Located in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok....

  • Church World Service
    Church World Service
    Founded in 1946, Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions in the United States, providing sustainable self-help, development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world...

  • City Year
    City Year
    City Year is an education-focused nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to provide full-time targeted intervention keeping students in school and on track to graduate...

  • Comenius Foundation for Child Development
    Comenius Foundation for Child Development
    The Comenius Foundation for Child Development, or Comenius Foundation for short , is a children's welfare non-governmental organisation based in Warsaw, Poland, established in September 2003...

  • Compassion International
    Compassion International
    Compassion International is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. Compassion International, headquartered in Colorado Springs, functions in 26 countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Haiti, Kenya, and...

  • Cooperazione e Sviluppo
  • Counterpart International
    Counterpart International
    Counterpart International is a non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The mission of Counterpart is: Working in partnership to empower people, communities and institutions to drive and sustain their own development...

  • Child In Need Institute (CINI)
    Child In Need Institute (CINI)
    CINI, known internationally as Child In Need India and in India as the Child In Need Institute, is an international humanitarian organisation aimed at promoting "sustainable development in health, nutrition and education of child, adolescent and woman in need" in India...


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  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation
    David and Lucile Packard Foundation
    The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death in 1996, the Foundation became the beneficiary of part of his estate...

  • Dean Foundation
    Dean Foundation
    Dean Foundation is a non-profit medical foundation that provides free hospice and palliative care to individuals with irreversible illnesses irrespective of age, race, religion, or socioeconomic status. DEAN is an acronym for the Foundation’s objective: to Dignify and Empower the Ailing and Needy...

    - India
  • Do Something
    Do Something
    Do Something is a non-profit organization that motivates young people to take action around social changes through national campaigns and grants for projects that make an impact. The organization's CEO is Nancy Lublin, who founded Dress for Success in 1996.-History:The organization was co-founded...

  • Doctors without borders
  • Duke Endowment

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  • Epilepsy Foundation
    Epilepsy Foundation
    The Epilepsy Foundation, also Epilepsy Foundation of America , is a non-profit national foundation, headquartered in Landover, Maryland, dedicated to the welfare of people with epilepsy and seizure disorders. The foundation was established in 1968 and now has a network of 59 affiliates...

  • East Meets West Foundation
    East Meets West Foundation
    East Meets West Foundation is the largest non-governmental organization acting in Vietnam, with additional programs in Southeast Asia, which describes itself as "the foundation for learning, healing and health." It was founded in 1988 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip, and is based in...

  • Eau Agriculture et Sante en Milieu Tropical
  • Enfants du Monde - Droits de l'Homme
    Enfants du Monde - Droits de l'Homme
    Enfants du Monde – Droits de l'Homme - non-profit association promoting defence of children rights and educational programs...

  • Engineers Without Borders (Canada)
    Engineers Without Borders (Canada)
    Engineers Without Borders Canada , abbreviated EWB or ISF, is a non-governmental organization devoted to international development...

  • Environmental Development Action in the Third World
    Environmental Development Action in the Third World
    Environmental Development Action in the Third World - international non-governmental association, working in the fields of development and environment. Established in 1972 and based in Dakar, Senegal....

  • Eppley Foundation
    Eppley Foundation
    The Eugene C. Eppley Foundation was founded in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded by Omaha hotel magnate Eugene C. Eppley, the foundation was the leading benefactor for several charities and institutions in the Midwestern United States...


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  • Food Allergy Initiative
    Food Allergy Initiative
    The Food Allergy Initiative is a 501 non-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to fund food allergy research that seeks a cure, to improve diagnosis and treatment, and to keep patients safe through advocacy and education. FAI is the largest private source of funding for food...

  • Foundation for International Community Assistance
  • Ford Foundation
    Ford Foundation
    The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....

  • Foundation for a Better Life, The
    The Foundation for a Better Life
    The Foundation for a Better Life is a non-profit 501 organization founded in 2000 to promote "positive behavioral values"; The Foundation creates public service campaigns to communicate its values, such as honesty, caring, optimism, hard work, and helping others. The Foundation communicates its...

  • The Fred Hollows Foundation
    The Fred Hollows Foundation
    The Fred Hollows Foundation is a non-profit aid organization based in Australia founded in 1992 by eye surgeon Fred Hollows. The Foundation focuses on treating and preventing blindness and other vision problems...

  • Fremont Area Community Foundation
    Fremont Area Community Foundation
    The Fremont Area Community Foundation is a philanthropic organization in Fremont, Michigan. Founded in 1972 to serve the people of Newaygo County, it is one of the largest community foundations in the United States on a per capita basis, serving a population of 50,000 with net assets of...

  • Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
    Friedrich Ebert Foundation
    The Friedrich Ebert Foundation is a German political foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany , yet independent of it...

  • Fund for Reconciliation and Development
    Fund for Reconciliation and Development
    Fund for Reconciliation and Development Is a non-profit organization supporting efforts for reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Cuba, as well as the development of these countries...

  • Fundacion Manantiales
    Fundacion Manantiales
    Fundacion Manantiales is a non-governmental organization, dedicated to the prevention and attendance of addictions. It has 9 seats in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Spain with 14 welfare preventive programs, where around 300 people are daily attended. It was created 16 March 1993, in the city of...

  • Ektaan Social Welfare Society

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  • GEFEK
    GEFEK
    GEFEK, the Association for the Promotion of Independent Disease Control in Developing Countries was created by scientists of the University of Giessen, Germany, in 2004 and is officially registered as a non-profit organisation...

  • George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
    George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
    The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation is a non-profit foundation located in Salt Lake City, Utah that gives grants for projects and programs throughout Utah in the following areas: arts and culture, community, education, health care, and preservation and conservation.-History:The...

  • German Foundation for World Population
    German Foundation for World Population
    The German Foundation for World Population is an international non-governmental organisation addressing Sexual & Reproductive Health and population dynamics...

  • Gill Foundation
    Gill Foundation
    The Gill Foundation is one of the largest private funders of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equal rights work in the United States...

  • Girl Scouts of the United States of America
  • Grassroots Business Fund
    Grassroots Business Fund
    The Grassroots Business Fund is a non-profit based in Washington, DC. It has field offices in Ghana, Kenya, and India. Their mission is to build and support high-impact enterprises that provide sustainable economic opportunities to thousands of people at the base of the economic pyramid...

  • Global Village Foundation
    Global Village Foundation
    The Global Village Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization which provides education and health care for children and rural villagers in Vietnam and some other countries of Asia...

  • Greengrants
    Greengrants
    is a charitable foundation that makes small grants to grassroots environmental causes around the world. These funds are used to support community-based groups outside the United States and Western Europe working on issues of environmental justice, sustainability, and conservation...

  • Greenpeace
    Greenpeace
    Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

  • GOAL (organization)

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  • Habitat for Humanity International
    Habitat for Humanity International
    Habitat For Humanity International , generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or simply Habitat, is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" housing, a self-described "Christian housing ministry." The international...

  • Half the Sky Foundation
    Half the Sky Foundation
    Half the Sky Foundation was created in 1998 by adoptive parents who wanted to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for the children who remain in China's welfare institutions....

  • Handicap International
    Handicap International
    Handicap International is a non-governmental organization created in 1982 to provide help in refugee camps in Cambodia and Thailand. Based in Belgium and France, it has since opened branches in six other countries : Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States...

  • Hands on Network
  • Hands on Tzedakah
    Hands on tzedakah
    Hands On Tzedakah is a 501 3 public charity headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Founded in 2003, the organization provides funding for various social service programs in the United States, Israel and other countries...

  • Heal the World Foundation
    Heal the World Foundation
    The original Heal the World Foundation was a charitable organization founded by entertainer Michael Jackson in 1992. The foundation's creation was inspired by his charitable single of the same name...

  • Heart to Heart International
    Heart to Heart International
    Heart to Heart International is a global humanitarian organization that works to improve health and to respond to the needs of disaster victims worldwide.-History of Heart to Heart:...

  • Heifer Project International
  • Helen Keller International
    Helen Keller International
    Helen Keller International combats the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition. Founded in 1915 by Helen Keller and George Kessler, the organization’s mission is to save the sight and lives of the...

  • Helvetas
    Helvetas
    Helvetas is a Swiss Association for International Cooperation. It was founded in 1955 as the first private organization for development co-operation in Switzerland...

  • Hilti Foundation
  • Holt International Children's Services
    Holt International Children's Services
    Holt International Children's Services is an adoption agency based in Eugene, Oregon, United States, known for international adoptions.-History:...

  • Hope for Tomorrow
    Hope for Tomorrow
    Hope for Tomorrow is a non-profit organization, which declares its aim to provide health care, human services and educational assistance to the underprivileged communities throughout the world...

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...


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  • IHH (Turkish NGO) - Humanitarian Relief Foundation
  • Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
    Illinois Prairie Community Foundation
    -Overview:The Illinois Prairie Community Foundation serves McLean, Livingston, DeWitt, Logan and adjacent areas of Tazewell, Woodford, LaSalle, Ford and Piatt counties.The Community Foundation helps connect donors with those causes they wish to benefit...

  • Institusjonen Fritt Ord
  • International Children Assistance Network
    International Children Assistance Network
    International Children Assistance Network - non-profit organization providing help for parents, caregivers and the general population in promoting the healthy development of children from prenatal to the age of 5 years old....

  • International Crane Foundation
    International Crane Foundation
    The International Crane Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the 15 species of cranes. Founded in 1973, ICF moved to its current headquarters in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1984....

  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
    International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is a humanitarian institution that is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the ICRC and 186 distinct National Societies...

  • International Foundation for Electoral Systems
    International Foundation for Electoral Systems
    The International Foundation for Electoral Systems is an international, non-profit organization founded in 1987. This Washington, D. C.-based development organization provides assistance and support for elections in new and emerging democracies...

  • International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • International Medical Corps
    International Medical Corps
    International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs...

  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    International Planned Parenthood Federation
    The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a global non-governmental organization with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health, and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning. It was first formed in 1952 in Bombay, India, and now...

  • International Republican Institute
    International Republican Institute
    Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute is an organization, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes labeled 'democratization programs'....

  • International Resources for the Improvement of Sight
    International Resources for the Improvement of Sight
    International Resources for the Improvement of Sight is a small, independent, charity, founded in 1996 by Michele Claudel and John Stewart. It specializes in prevention of blindness and restoration of sight...

  • International Trachoma Initiative
    International Trachoma Initiative
    The International Trachoma Initiative is a non-profit organization committed to the elimination of blinding trachoma, the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness. It was founded in 1998 in response to the World Health Organization’s call to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2020...

  • Islamic Relief
    Islamic Relief
    Islamic Relief Worldwide is a Muslim international relief and development organization consisting of a family of 15 aid agencies that aims to alleviate the suffering of the world’s poorest people...

  • ISSO Seva
    ISSO Seva
    ISSO Seva was established in 2001. It is an independent running charity under International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation of the Swaminarayan Sampraday that has been established tp give a helping hand to mankind, help the homeless and needy as well as spreading awareness about the modern day...


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  • Jain Foundation
    Jain Foundation
    The Jain Foundation is a non-profit organization located in Bellevue, Washington, whose mission is to cure muscular dystrophies caused by dysferlin protein deficiency...

  • The Jane Goodall Institute
  • Jesuit Refugee Service
    Jesuit Refugee Service
    The Jesuit Refugee Service is an international Catholic organization that aids refugees, forcibly displaced peoples, and asylum seekers. JRS operates at national and regional levels. Founded in November, 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS was officially registered on March 19, 2000 in...

  • Jewish Community Center
    Jewish Community Center
    A Jewish Community Center or Jewish Community Centre is a general recreational, social and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities...

  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Just a Drop
    Just a Drop
    Just a Drop - a charitable organization helping to provide clean water and sanitation in poor countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Founded in 1998 by a managing director of World Travel Market Fiona Jeffery and supported by the members of the international travel industry...


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  • Kahrizak charity foundation
    Kahrizak charity foundation
    Kahrizak Charity Foundation is a private, non-governmental, non-profit, charitable organization where physically handicapped or elderly individuals with no financial resources are cared for, free of charge....

  • Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
    Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
    The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is a private foundation , founded in 1917 by a donation of SEK 20 million by the chairman of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Knut Agathon Wallenberg and his wife Alice....

  • Komitee Twee of the Netherlands
    Komitee Twee of the Netherlands
    Komitee Twee of the Netherlands - association helping children in the developing countries. Established in 1977 and based in the Netherlands....

  • Konrad Adenauer Foundation
    Konrad Adenauer Foundation
    The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is a German political party foundation associated with the centre-right Christian Democratic Union . The foundation's headquarters are located in Saint Augustine and Berlin. Globally, the KAS has 78 offices and runs programs in over 100 countries...

  • KOTO
    KOTO
    KOTO is a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Its staff consists primarily of former street children who have received training in catering through KOTO itself or other similar charities....

  • The Kresge Foundation
    The Kresge Foundation
    The Kresge Foundation is a U.S. philanthropic private foundation headquartered in Troy, Michigan. The goals and aspirations of seven programs guide its grantmaking and investing. Those programs are Arts & Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services...

  • kuzhalmannam education charitable trust

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  • La Caixa
    La Caixa
    La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...

  • Landmine Survivors Network
    Landmine Survivors Network
    Survivor Corps is a global network of survivors helping survivors to recover from war, rebuild their communities, and break cycles of violence. The organization currently operates programs in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, Colombia, Croatia, El Salvador, Ethiopia,...

  • LDS Humanitarian Services
    LDS Humanitarian Services
    LDS Humanitarian Services is a branch of the Welfare Services department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

  • Lifeline Express
    Lifeline Express
    The Lifeline Express or Jeevan Rekha Express is a mobile hospital train run by the Impact India Foundation. It was developed in collaboration with the Indian Railways and Health Ministry and has been funded by Impact UK, international charitable sources, Indian corporate houses and individuals...

  • Li Ka Shing Foundation
    Li Ka Shing Foundation
    The Li Ka Shing Foundation is a Hong Kong and Canada-based charitable organization founded in 1980 by Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist Li Ka Shing, with a mission to nurture "a culture of giving" in society...

  • Lilly Endowment
    Lilly Endowment
    Lilly Endowment Inc., headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana is one of the world's largest private philanthropic foundations and is among the ten largest such endowments in the United States....

  • Lions Club

M

  • Malian Foundation
  • Malteser International
    Malteser International
    Malteser International is the worldwide relief agency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta for humanitarian aid. The organisation covers around 200 projects in about 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas...

  • Marie Stopes International
    Marie Stopes International
    Marie Stopes International is an International Non-Governmental Organisation working on Sexual and Reproductive Health with headquarters in London, UK. It is named after Marie Stopes, a Scottish author, campaigner for eugenics, women's rights, and a pioneer in the field of family planning...

  • Maybach Foundation
    Maybach Foundation
    The Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation is a 501 non-profit organization that seeks to improve the world through mentoring, by fostering and overseeing mentorships. The organization links mentors with protégés worldwide, and fosters and oversees those relationships...

  • McKnight Foundation
    McKnight Foundation
    The McKnight Foundation is a philanthropic organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The foundation's interests lie in the environment, the arts, community development, and other areas....

  • Médecins du Monde
    Médecins du Monde
    Médecins du Monde or Doctors of the World, is a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation created in March 1980 by 15 French doctors, including Bernard Kouchner after he had left Médecins Sans Frontières , the aid society which he had co-founded earlier in 1971...

  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    Médecins Sans Frontières
    ' , or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland...

  • Mercy Corps
    Mercy Corps
    Mercy Corps is a global aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict. People working for it move as quickly as possible from bringing in food and supplies to enabling people to rebuild their economy with...

  • Mercy International Foundation
    Mercy International Foundation
    Mercy International Foundation is a charitable organization supporting needy children and young people in Thailand. It was established in 1985 by Rob and Jean Dunk with the assistance of their christian church in Brisbane....

  • Mukti (organization)
    Mukti (organization)
    MUKTI , is a registered not-for-profit and socio-economic development trust working in Sunderban and other part of West Bengal, India for making uplift of the grassroots are in penury, social exclusion and myriad discriminations. Mukti is registered under the Government of India Trust Act Section...


N

  • Netherlands Leprosy Relief
    Netherlands Leprosy Relief
    Netherlands Leprosy Relief - non-profit association promoting and supporting the eradication of leprosy and all its consequences in endemic countries...

  • Network for Good
    Network for Good
    Network for Good is a website where users can donate to charities and search for volunteer opportunities.The website was founded in 2001 by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!.-Management:...

  • New York Road Runners
    New York Road Runners
    New York Road Runners , founded in 1958 with 47 members, has grown into the foremost running organization, with a membership of 40,000. NYRR conducts more than 100 events each year, including races, classes, clinics, and lectures...

  • Nimmagadda Foundation
    Nimmagadda Foundation
    Nimmagadda Foundation is a philanthropic initiative of Mr. Nimmagadda Prasad, the Chairman of VANPIC Group. With major contributions by Prasad, in his personal capacity, Nimmagadda Foundation was set up to work in areas like healthcare, education, life skills improvement and community development...

  • Nippon Foundation
    Nippon Foundation
    is a private, non-profit grant-making organization. It was established in 1962 by Ryoichi Sasakawa, the late statesman and businessman who, following World War II, was accused, albeit not convicted, of class A war crimes...

  • Nobel Foundation
    Nobel Foundation
    The Nobel Foundation is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The Foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite....

  • Norwegian Mission Alliance
    Norwegian Mission Alliance
    Norwegian Mission Alliance - non-profit organization of christian origin, engaged in the development assistance to poor countries. Established in 1901 and based within the Church of Norway. The organizers declared their foundations on the evangelical Christian faith in conformity with the Holy...


O

  • The Oaktree Foundation
    The Oaktree Foundation
    The Oaktree Foundation is an Australian-based aid and development Publicly Limited Company run by young people aged 16 to 26.Internationally, Oaktree partners with developing communities to support quality educational opportunities for young people...

  • Onassis Foundation
  • ONS Foundation
    ONS Foundation
    The ONS Foundation is a national nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization in the United States, established on November 27, 1981, by the Oncology Nursing Society. The Pittsburgh-based organization is dedicated to sustaining and advancing oncology nursing and funded by corporate and private...

  • Operation Blessing
  • Operation Smile
    Operation Smile
    Operation Smile is a not-for-profit medical service organization based in Norfolk, Virginia , founded in 1982. A secular NGO, the children's medical charity provides cleft lip and palate repair surgeries to children worldwide, assists countries in reaching self-sufficiency with these surgeries, and...

  • Operation USA
    Operation USA
    Operation USA is a non profit humanitarian organization dedicated to helping communities alleviate the effects of disaster, disease, and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction, humanitarian aid and development aid...

  • Opportunity International
    Opportunity International
    Opportunity International is an organization that provides small business loans, savings, insurance and training to more than two million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world...

  • Orbis International
    ORBIS International
    Orbis International is an international non-profit non-governmental organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide. Orbis programs focus on the prevention of blindness and the treatment of blinding eye diseases in developing countries...

  • Oxfam
    Oxfam
    Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working in 98 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives...


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  • Red Cross Foundation
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the United States' largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care; it is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The foundation's mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans...

  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund
    The Rockefeller Brothers Fund , , is an international philanthropic organisation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family. It was set up in New York City in 1940 as the primary philanthropic vehicle of the five famous Rockefeller brothers: John D...

  • Rockefeller Foundation
    Rockefeller Foundation
    The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...

  • Royal London Society for the Blind
    Royal London Society for the Blind
    The Royal London Society for the Blind is a UK charity offering education, training, life-skills and employment services for blind and partially-sighted adults and children.- History :...

  • Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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  • Saint Camillus Foundation
    Saint Camillus Foundation
    The Saint Camillus Foundation of Thailand is a charitable organization in Thailand, set up and run by the Camillian monastic order.In 1995, the Foundation with the participation of an Italian priest Father Giovanni Contarin established a Camillian Social Centre in the Province of Rayong...

  • Salvation Army
    Salvation Army
    The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....

  • Samaritan's Purse
    Samaritan's Purse
    Samaritan's Purse is a non-denominational evangelical Christian humanitarian organization that works worldwide to assist people in physical need alongside their Christian missionary work. The organization’s president is Franklin Graham, son of Christian evangelist Billy Graham...

  • Samsara Foundation
  • Santa Casa da Misericórdia
    Santa Casa da Misericórdia
    The Santa Casa da Misericórdia is a Portuguese charity founded in Lisbon in 1498 by the Queen Leonor of Portugal....

  • Save the Children
    Save the Children
    Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

  • Scaife Family Foundation
    Scaife Family Foundation
    The Scaife Family Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on families, women, children, and animal welfare. From 1985 to 2001 the organization awarded over $77 million USD to...

  • Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
    Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
    The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Paris, France. It was established in 1975 by Simone Del Duca , widow of publishing magnate Cino Del Duca...

  • SCARE for a CURE
    Scare for a Cure
    SCARE for a CURE is an Austin, Texas-based nonprofit organization that raises money for local charities, including the Breast Cancer Resource Centers. Each year they produce an "extreme, full contact, interactive haunted house adventure" that runs around 45 minutes to an hour long...

  • Schowalter Foundation
    Schowalter Foundation
    The Schowalter Foundation is a Kansas-based Mennonite philanthropic foundation formed in 1954 from the estate of Jacob A. Schowalter of Newton, Kansas....

  • SKIP of New York
    SKIP of New York
    Sick Kids need Involved People of New York, Inc. is a 501 not-for profit agency for families who want to care for their chronically ill, medically fragile, or developmentally disabled children...

  • SoccerGrow
    SoccerGrow
    SoccerGrow is a soccer charity aimed at supporting the international soccer community, specifically lower-income regions. SoccerGrow was started in June 2008 by the founders of the soccer retailer SoccerPro, with the intention of getting its customer base involved with soccer charity work...

  • Somaly Mam Foundation
    Somaly Mam Foundation
    The Somaly Mam Foundation is a registered 501 nonprofit organization. The Foundation is dedicated to combating the global sex slave trade through supporting the rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the victims and through raising global awareness on the issue...

  • SOS Children's Villages
    SOS Children's Villages
    SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria...

  • SOS Children's Villages - UK
    SOS Children's Villages UK
    SOS Children's Villages UK is an autonomous charity based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and part of the international group SOS Children's Villages, the largest international charity group dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children...

  • SOS Children's Villages - USA
    SOS Children's Villages - USA
    SOS Children’s Villages - USA is part of SOS Children's Villages, the largest orphan and abandoned children’s charity in the world. SOS Children's Villages - USA has been in operation since 1969 and has 501 tax exempt status...

  • Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR
    Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR
    Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR is a Norwegian foundation. The foundation gives financial contributions to a wide range of charitable causes, and is the second largest shareholder of the financial services company DnB NOR. The foundation's capital is a result of accumulated profits from the former...

  • St. Baldrick's Foundation
    St. Baldrick's Foundation
    St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. The Foundation raises money for childhood cancer research primarily through head-shaving events...

  • Starlight Children's Foundation AUS
  • Starz Lacrosse Foundation
    Starz Lacrosse Foundation
    The Starz Lacrosse Foundation is a found was founded by University of Maryland alumni Scott Hochstadt in 2001. The foundation's original purpose was to bring the sport of lacrosse from the traditional hotbeds on the East Coast, to untapped areas on the West Coast...

  • Students Helping Honduras
    Students Helping Honduras
    Students Helping Honduras is an international NGO operating in both the United States and Honduras. While the majority of its projects are centered on the peripheries of El Progreso, the organization engages in projects throughout all of Honduras....

  • Surdna Foundation
    SURDNA Foundation
    The SURDNA Foundation was established as a charitable foundation in 1917 by John Emory Andrus to pursue a range of philanthropic purposes.-History:...


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  • Telangana Development Forum
    Telangana Development Forum
    Telangana Development Forum or TDF is a non-profit organization for the development of the backward Telangana region. It is run by Non-resident Indians. The organisation has been supporting the separate statehood. It carries out development activities like education, health etc. in the region....

  • Taproot Foundation
    Taproot Foundation
    The Taproot Foundation is a 501 nonprofit organization that engages design, marketing, IT, strategic management, and human resources professionals in pro bono to build the infrastructure of other nonprofit organizations.-About:...

  • Tom Joyner Foundation
  • Toys for Tots
    Toys for Tots
    Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which donates toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. The program was founded in 1947 by reservist Major William L...

  • TRAFFIC International
  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing organization that aims to "[a]ttract and disburse additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria." A public–private partnership, the organization has its secretariat in Geneva,...

  • The Alliance for Safe Children
    The Alliance for Safe Children
    The Alliance for Safe Children is a non-profit organization formed in 2002 to address the issue of child injury in the developing world. The founder is Pete Peterson, former United States Ambassador to Vietnam. Michael Linnon is the technical director.TASC works in cooperation with other...

  • The Lawrence Foundation
    The Lawrence Foundation
    The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation in the United States focused on making grants to support environmental, education, human services and other causes. It makes both program and operating grants and does not have any geographical restrictions...

  • The Weston Foundation
    The weston foundation
    The Weston Foundation is a Chicago-based private charitable trust established in 2007 by Roger L. Weston, former CEO of Greatbanc Inc., and is governed by a small trustee board that designates over 50 grants/yr ranging $500 - $10,000 in size...

  • TropicalClinics

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  • UMCOR
    UMCOR
    The United Methodist Committee on Relief is a prominent worldwide emergency relief organization. A nonprofit agency of the United Methodist Church, UMCOR reaches worldwide to provide relief in five core areas: Hunger, Health, Refugees, Emergencies, and Relief Supplies. Since 1940 UMCOR has served...

  • UNICEF
  • United Nations Children's Fund
    United Nations Children's Fund
    United Nations Children's Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II...

  • United Nations Development Program
  • United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
    United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
    The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard and was established on June 23, 1939 by an act of Congress as the United States Coast Guard Reserve, and was re-designated as the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary on February 19, 1941...

  • United States Golf Association
    United States Golf Association
    The United States Golf Association is the United States' national association of golf courses, clubs and facilities and the governing body of golf for the U.S. and Mexico. Together with The R&A, the USGA produces and interprets the Rules of Golf. The USGA also provides a national handicap system...

  • United States Artists
    United States Artists
    United States Artists is an independent nonprofit and nongovernmental philanthropic organization based in Los Angeles, California and dedicated to supporting the work of living American artists by the granting of cash awards, called USA Fellowships...

  • Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
    Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
    Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut is an independent, nonprofit organization with offices in Meriden, Connecticut. The foundation supports the mission of its parent organization, CHART...


V

  • Vietnam Children's Fund
    Vietnam Children's Fund
    Vietnam Children’s Fund is a non-profit organization based in Unionville, Virginia, United States, helping the children of Vietnam.It builds “turnkey” schools to modern standards, ready for occupation....

  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
    Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. , was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War. The memorial was...

  • Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
    Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
    The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation , established in 1980, now the Veterans for America , is a Washington, D.C.-based international humanitarian organization that addresses the consequences of war and conflict. The founder of VVAF is Bobby Muller, a former U.S...

  • Volunteers of America
    Volunteers of America
    Volunteers of America, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is a national, nonprofit, faith-based human services organization providing support programs to more than two million people throughout the United States each year...

  • Voluntary Service Overseas
    Voluntary Service Overseas
    Voluntary Service Overseas is an international development charity that works through experienced volunteers living and working as equals alongside local partners. It is the largest independent volunteer-sending organization in the world...


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  • Wellcome Trust
    Wellcome Trust
    The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13.9 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research...

  • Wetlands International
    Wetlands International
    Wetlands International is a global organisation that works to sustain and restore wetlands and their resources for people and biodiversity. It is an independent, not-for-profit, global organisation, supported by government and NGO membership from around the world...

  • Wikimedia Foundation
    Wikimedia Foundation
    Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...

  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
    William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
    The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Reddington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1967. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to support educational and cultural institutions and to advance certain social and...

  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • WildAid
    WildAid
    WildAid is an international 501 NGO whose mission is to end the illegal wildlife trade. Rather than an issue of biology or culture WildAid views the illegal wildlife trade fundamentally as a matter of economics - of supply and demand....

  • Wildlife Conservation Society
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    The Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society and currently manages some of wild places around the world, with over 500 field conservation projects in 60 countries, and 200 scientists on staff...

  • William J. Clinton Foundation
  • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
    Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
    The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a private non-profit foundation based in Princeton, New Jersey. It administers programs that support leadership development and build organizational capacity in education. Its current signature program is the...

  • World Conservation Union
    World Conservation Union
    The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to finding "pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges." The organization publishes the IUCN Red List, compiling information from a network of...

  • World Medical Relief
    World Medical Relief
    World Medical Relief - multi-funded, non-profit charitable organization based in Detroit, United States.- History :Established in 1953 by Detroit housewife - Irene M. Auberlin, who mobilized her friends and family to collect food, baby clothing, cribs, and medicines to ship overseas for a Korean...

  • World Vision International
    World Vision International
    World Vision International, founded in the USA in 1977, is an evangelical relief and development umbrella organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good...

  • World Wide Fund for Nature
    World Wide Fund for Nature
    The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...

  • World Wildlife Fund
  • World Scout Foundation
    World Scout Foundation
    The World Scout Foundation, WSF, is an international non-profit institution based in Geneva, Switzerland funded in 1969, but reorganized in the current form in 1977. The stated mission of the organization is to develop World Scouting by the provision of financial and other support to help develop...

  • Wyoming Wildlife Federation
    Wyoming Wildlife Federation
    The Wyoming Wildlife Federation , established in 1937 and as of April 2010 with 5000 members, is Wyoming's oldest and largest statewide sportsmen/conservation organization....


See also

  • Foundations in Canada
    Foundations in Canada
    This is a list of foundations in Canada. Foundations in Canada collectively comprise a very large asset base for philanthropy. As of 2003, there were over 2,000 active grantmaking foundations in Canada, who had total assets of $12.5 billion CAD, with total grants given that year of over $1 billion...

  • Charitable trust
    Charitable trust
    A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes, and is a more specific term than "charitable organization".-United States:...

  • List of wealthiest foundations
  • Foundation (nonprofit organization)
  • Youth philanthropy
    Youth philanthropy
    Youth philanthropy is the donation of time, energy or resources, including money, by children and youth towards philanthropic causes. According to one study, "youth philanthropy is, at the broadest level, youth giving of their time, talents and treasure." It is seen as an effective means in which...

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