At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 55 Humanitarian companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Humanitarian Companies & Startups (California, United States)
OmniVis
Put the power of the lab in the palm of your hand
Founder(s): Katherine Clayton
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Humanitarian, Information Technology, Software
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Beamlink
SaaS, Hardware, Telecom, Telecommunications, Humanitarian, Last Mile, Social Venture
Founder(s): Arpad Kovesdy, DC Palter, Mateo Abascal
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Communication Hardware, Communications Infrastructure, Hardware, Humanitarian, Network Hardware, SaaS, Telecommunications
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Help Worldwide
Help Worldwide generates continuous charitable donations with everyday shopping.
Founder(s): Richard G. Stewart Jr.
Location: Santa Clarita, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Shopping
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Potential
Potential works to secure employment and security for those exiting the criminal justice system.
Founder(s): Ethan Aldrich
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Corrections Facilities, Government, Humanitarian
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ScaleFunder
ScaleFunder helps with nonprofit digital fundraising to boost a company’s potential.
Founder(s): Andrew Dowds, Michael Greenberg, Robert Jadon
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Crowdfunding, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Software, Universities
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Placer Community Foundation
Placer Community Foundation is a nonprofit community and conduit for donors and professional advisers interested in charitable endowments.
Founder(s): Janice Forbes
Location: Auburn, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Causecast
Causecast is the leading cause engagement platform, providing companies of all sizes with a solution that empowers employees to give back.
Founder(s): Ryan Scott
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social Entrepreneurship
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PictureHealing
We make technology for thought leaders, boundary pushers and icons of change in the nonprofit sector.
Founder(s): Christopher Brereton
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Mobile, Non Profit
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Direct Relief
Direct Relief is a humanitarian medical aid organization.
Founder(s): Dezso Karczag, william zimdin
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Association, Charity, Health Care, Humanitarian, Medical, Non Profit
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HUZO
HUZO is a social network platform enabling people to stay connected with celebrities and participate in entertainment communities.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Celebrity, Charity, Humanitarian, Music, Social Media, Video Games
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King Philanthropies
King King Philanthropies is an organization to alleviates extreme poverty through multiplying high-performing leaders and organizations.
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Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Public Safety
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Destination: Home
Destination: Home is a public-private partnership serving as the backbone organization for collective impact strategies to end homelessness.
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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Homeless Shelter, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Goodwill Southern California
Goodwill Southern California provides recruiting solutions, custodial, landscaping, counseling & training-related services to the community.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Communities, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social
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Union Rescue Mission
Union Rescue Mission is a non-profit organization focused on helping homeless families and individual providing emergency shelter and food.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social Impact
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Shadowman Sports
The design, manufacture and sales of innovative sports equipment.
Founder(s): John Paul Hartigan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods, Sports
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Jara
Jara provides under-resourced and disaster-affected communities across the globe access to quality education through IoT enabled technology.
Founder(s): Soraya Fouladi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Humanitarian, Information Technology
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3Crosses
3Crosses transforms life through following Christ.
Founder(s):
Location: Castro Valley, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Religion
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Give Something Back Workplace Solutions
A for-profit B2B office supply company that donates the majority of their profits back to nonprofits in the local community.
Founder(s): Mark Patenaude
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Electronics, Food and Beverage, Furniture, Humanitarian, Local Business
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Assistance League of Los Angeles
Assistance League of Los Angeles is a nonprofit organization that aims to improves the the lives of children living in poverty in LA.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Children, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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No More Poverty
No More Poverty is a non-profit entity that provides support to charities focused on alleviating and eliminating poverty.
Founder(s): Julian Omidi, Michael Omidi
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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OurGroup
OurGroup is an online discussion platform that connects individuals, charities, and other organizations for a cause.
Founder(s):
Location: Pasadena, California, United States
Industries: Charity, E-Commerce, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social Media
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myTab
The more you save and are gifted cash (friends & family) to buy online products, we negotiate exclusive deals.
Founder(s): Heddi Cundle
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, E-Commerce, Gift Card, Humanitarian, Social Media, Travel
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MojaLink
Mojalink is a global network of businesses, governments and nonprofits looking to increase their philanthropic impact.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit
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EdRover
Shop for brands you love and raise money for your favorite school! http://edRover.com
Founder(s):
Location: Stevenson Ranch, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Location Based Services, Mobile, Wireless
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Linked Foundation
Linked Foundation promotes and invests in solutions that improve the health of women and their families in Latin America.
Founder(s):
Location: Carpinteria, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Impact Investing, Non Profit, Social Assistance, Social Impact
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AllHumanity Group
The AllHumanity Group is a global humanitarian social platform serving those in crisis or need through our AllHumanity Members
Founder(s): Robert Cipriano
Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Social Media, Social Network
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NOZA
OZA is, a non-profit tech platform, converts unstructured and semi-structured data from the web into industry-specific relational databases.
Founder(s): Craig Harris
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit, Vertical Search
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MonksPie
Feed underprivileged children the most transparent and efficient way!
Founder(s): Harsh Vinayak
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian
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Social Justice Collaborative
Social Justice Collaborative providing deportation defense services to low income noncitizens.
Founder(s):
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Legal, Professional Services
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Children’s Obesity Fund
Children’s Obesity Fund is a non-profit that looks to combat the obesity epidemic that is not only affecting children in the United States
Founder(s): Julian Omidi, Michael Omidi
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Gudville
Gudville is a social action network that offers a platform for discovering and sharing personal causes.
Founder(s): Subhash Dhar
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social Media
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givezooks!
Givezooks is an online platform that enables NPOs to raise funds through social networks.
Founder(s): Joe Fazio
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit
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SunnyKarma
A social fundraising platform where anyone can auction off or bid on an experience and help a good cause.
Founder(s): Elina Elek
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Auctions, Crowdfunding, E-Commerce, Humanitarian, Social Media
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Power of 10
Power of 10 is a non-profit organization that provides consulting and fundraising services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Mending Matters
Mending Matters empowers the youth of today by enabling access to mental health, economic and social support.
Founder(s):
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social
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The Bernard Osher Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation provides post-secondary scholarship funding to colleges and universities across the nation.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Higher Education, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Social Assistance
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DDx Media
I help mission-driven leaders magnify their message with marketing, websites, mobile apps and publishing. Founder of edRover.
Founder(s):
Location: Stevenson Ranch, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Humanitarian, Location Based Services, Mobile, Wireless
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Bill Wilson Center
Bill Wilson Center is a community that serves youth and families through counseling, housing, education and advocacy.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Meditation Mount
Meditation Mount promote the building of an enlightened and compassionate through the power of creative meditation and community events.
Founder(s):
Location: Ojai, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit, Public Relations
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Civic Duty Org
Civic Duty Org is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting philanthropic services in communities.
Founder(s): Julian Omidi
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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The Glue Network
The Glue Network is an organization that helps not for profit companies work together and network with each other.
Founder(s):
Location: Lafayette, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Humanitarian, Social Media
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Chemists Without Borders
Solving humanitarian problems by mobilizing, the global chemistry community.
Founder(s): Bego Gerber, Steve Chambreau
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Social Impact, Water
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Integral Enlightenment
Integral Enlightenment is a spiritual trailblazer whose innovative approach to transformation is bringing Enlightenment down to earth.
Founder(s):
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Industries: Education, Health Care, Humanitarian
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Your Cause Or Mine
Cause-Related Dating and Volunteering
Founder(s): Fred Roby, Teshia Roby
Location: Chino Hills, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Communities, Event Management, Events, Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth offers to serve, develop and promote restorative justice in criminal justice systems and services.
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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Humanitarian, Personal Health
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Dance of the Deer Foundation
Dance of the Deer Foundation help people around the globe connect with nature and their inherent spiritual heritage.
Founder(s):
Location: Soquel, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit, Sustainability, Wellness
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The Programming Foundation
The Programming Foundation is a 501(c)(3) that commits to spreading awareness on computer programming and OSes so that everyone is involved.
Founder(s):
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Education, Hardware, Humanitarian, Information Technology, Open Source, Software
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Valley Village
Valley Village is a non-profit organisation that fosters, protects and fights for the rights of disabled people.
Founder(s):
Location: California City, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit, Wellness
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Earth Relief Network
ERN, Earth Relief Network is an umbrella style support organisation, nature and earth news.
Founder(s): Jan Husar
Location: Rail Road Flat, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Medical, Natural Resources, Non Profit, Open Source
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SportsandSocialChange.org
Cause Marketing, CSR and Social Enterprise development in the Sports industry.
Founder(s): Howard K Brodwin
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Enterprise Software, Humanitarian, Non Profit, Sports
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Versacare
Versacare is a foundation which helps the needy people with health care, finance and other humanitarian deeds.
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Location: Loma Linda, California, United States
Industries: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Humanitarian
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Giving Circles Fund
Giving Circles Fund Accessible philanthropy for millenials
Founder(s): Michael Berkowitz
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Non Profit
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Geoaide Corporation
Geoaide Corporation connects people in need to humanitarian services and international charitable organizations.
Founder(s): David Howar
Location: Pebble Beach, California, United States
Industries: Humanitarian, Location Based Services, Non Profit
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The Growing Place
The Growing Place unifies children, parents, and teachers into a community that learns together.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Charity, Education, Humanitarian
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Inland Valley Drug & Alcohol Recovery Services
Inland Valley Drug & Alcohol Recovery Services offers counselling services, help, abuse recovery and solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: Upland, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Health Care, Humanitarian
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