Public Benefit
PUBLIC BENEFIT charities protect, improve and invest in our communities and our country by defending civil rights, conducting research in science and public policy, and promoting philanthropy and social action. We divided PUBLIC BENEFIT charities into five Causes.
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Advocacy and Civil Rights (211) Advocacy and Civil Rights includes government watchdogs; groups protecting civil and legal rights; advocacy organizations educating voters and influencing public policy; charities promoting the rights and welfare of our armed services veterans; and groups promoting understanding and tolerance among racial, ethnic and cultural groups. |
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Fundraising Organizations (341) Fundraising Organizations include United Ways, Jewish Federations, art councils, and other fundraising campaigns. They raise money through annual fundraising campaigns and distribute those funds to community-based charities and to charities addressing various public and cultural issues. |
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Research and Public Policy Institutions (128) Research and Public Policy Institutions include think tanks and social science research facilities that study various public policy and social issues, as well as those institutes providing research and services in non-medical sciences, engineering, and technology. |
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Community Foundations (75) Community Foundations promote giving by managing long-term donor-advised charitable funds for individual givers, much like a mutual fund for giving, and by distributing those funds to community-based charities over time on behalf of givers. |
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Community and Housing Development (123) Charities in Community and Housing Development lead and finance development projects that increase access to affordable housing, revitalize our communities, and enhance our public and private institutions. |
Did you know?
- There are an estimated 1.25 million injuries due to fires in the United States every year.
- 80% of the civil legal needs of the poor are not being met.
- Heat and heat-related complications caused more deaths in the United States than floods, lightning and hurricanes combined in 2001, according to the National Weather Service.
- About 27% of food in developed countries is wasted each year. It's simply thrown away.
- Close to 4,000 people were executed worldwide in 2004, more than at nearly any other time in the last 25 years.
- 132 police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2003 in America, with guns and traffic accidents claiming the most lives.
- About one in six soldiers returning from the current war in Iraq shows signs of post-traumatic stress disorder or other emotional difficulties.
- There are more than 550 federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States, including 223 village groups in Alaska.
- Approximately 33% of homeless men are veterans, although veterans comprise only 23% of the general adult male population.
- 7,462 hate crime incidents were reported in 2002. Of these incidents, nearly half were racially motivated.
