Top Rated Charities
Groups included on the CharityWatch Top-Rated list generally spend 75% or more of their budgets on programs, spend $25 or less to raise $100 in public support, do not hold excessive assets in reserve, have met CharityWatch's governance benchmarks, and receive "open-book" status for disclosure of basic financial information and documents to CharityWatch. Please see the Criteria section of the website for more information on the rating criteria and methodology that CharityWatch adheres to.
Because many factors determine a worthy charity, we at CharityWatch suggest that you use the ratings on this page not as the sole determining factor in your decision, but rather as an aid.
This list is subject to change depending on the information CharityWatch receives concerning charitable organizations.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | A- |
National Urban League (National Office) | A |
American Foundation for Children with AIDS | B+ |
American Sexual Health Association | A |
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation | A- |
Foundation for AIDS Research | A- |
Gay Men's Health Crisis | B+ |
American Indian College Fund | B+ |
Asia Foundation | A |
Asia Society | A- |
Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund | A- |
Japan Society | A |
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind | A |
Helen Keller International | A |
National Federation of the Blind | A- |
Orbis | B+ |
Prevent Blindness | A- |
Seva Foundation | A |
American Humane Association | B+ |
Child Find of America | A+ |
Children's Defense Fund | A |
Children's Health Fund | A- |
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | A- |
Prevent Child Abuse America (National Office) | A+ |
ChildFund International | A- |
Children Incorporated | A |
Compassion International | A |
Pearl S. Buck International | A |
Save the Children | A |
Unbound | A+ |
World Vision | A- |
American Civil Liberties Union | A- |
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | A |
Center for Community Change | A- |
Center for Constitutional Rights | A- |
Innocence Project | A |
Action on Smoking and Health | A |
Government Accountability Project (GAP) | A |
Innocence Project | A |
Public Citizen Foundation | A |
Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS) | A- |
Fortune Society | A- |
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | A- |
Goodwill Industries International (National Office) | A |
Drug Policy Alliance | B+ |
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids | A |
National Rifle Association (NRA) Foundation | A |
Hispanic Scholarship Fund | A |
LatinoJustice PRLDEF | A- |
Amnesty International of the USA | A |
Center for Victims of Torture | A- |
Committee to Protect Journalists | A |
Human Rights Watch | A- |
American Red Cross | A- |
The Y (National Office) | A |
Action Against Hunger-USA | A |
City Harvest | B+ |
Food Bank for New York City | A |
Food for the Hungry | B+ |
Global Hunger Project | A- |
Meals on Wheels America (National Office) | A- |
One Acre Fund | A |
Trevor Project | A |
Proliteracy Worldwide | A- |
Arc of the United States (National Office) | A- |
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | A+ |
Mental Health America | A- |
NAMI | B+ |
Trevor Project | A |
AFS-USA | B+ |
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation | A |
International Peace Institute | A |
Physicians for Social Responsibility (National Office) | B+ |
Common Cause Education Fund | A |
Government Accountability Project (GAP) | A |
Meals on Wheels America (National Office) | A- |
National Council on Aging | A+ |
Unbound | A+ |
Compassion & Choices | B+ |
Give Kids the World | B+ |
Starlight Children's Foundation (National Office) | A |
Sunshine Foundation (National Office) | B+ |
Center for Reproductive Rights | A- |
Global Fund for Women | A- |
Guttmacher Institute | A- |
Women for Women International U.S. | B+ |
Covenant House | B+ |
SOS Children's Villages - USA | B+ |