Below are additional resources curated by our team to help you find additional nonprofits and cause areas beyond those discussed in this toolkit. As always, whether you have $10 or $1 million, we hope our team’s work helps you turn your good intentions into high social impact.
Nonprofit Due Diligence
- Candid (GuideStar and Foundation Center) – World’s largest source of information on nonprofits and foundations
- Charity Navigator – Rates nonprofits on financial health, accountability, and transparency
- Great Nonprofits – Community-sourced stories about nonprofits, written by donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries
- ImpactMatters (a service of Charity Navigator) – Provides “audits” of nonprofits that have proven evidence of impact
- GiveWell – Rates nonprofits based on empirical data, cost-effectiveness, and capacity for increased funding
- The Life You Can Save – Nonprofits that aid the global poor vetted for record of effectiveness
Research on Cause Areas and Programs
- Innovations for Poverty Action – Research on over 300 potential solutions to poverty
- Grantmakers in Health – Helps grantmakers improve the nation’s health by strengthening grantmakers’ knowledge, skills, effectiveness, and collaboration
- The Jameel Poverty Action Lab – Database of over 850 publicly available randomized evaluations of programs found to be effective
- Giving Compass – Curates content from many expert sources, including the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, with the goal of sharing knowledge in order to create social change
- NAVi Nonprofit Aid Visualizer – Vanguard Charitable’s free, searchable public tool to identify nonprofits working to combat hunger
and homelessness - Root Cause Social Impact Research (SIR) – Reports on cause areas and topics for creating social change
- IssueLab (a service of Candid) – Organizes research from social sector organizations on 30+ cause areas
Disaster Relief
- Center for Disaster Philanthropy – National resource dedicated to helping donors make more intentional disaster-related giving decisions
- International Federation of the Red Cross – World’s largest humanitarian network that acts before, during, and after disasters and health emergencies
- The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System – Cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange, and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters
- MSF/Doctors Without Borders – Well-regarded international nonprofit and often among the first on the scene of multiple international disasters
- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – International coordinating body promoting disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies among members
- Disaster Accountability Project – Nonprofit organization that provides long-term independent oversight of disaster management systems