Yolo County Nonprofit Directory 2023

Animal Friends of Yolo County Animal Services

The Friends of the Yolo County Animal Services primary objective is to assist the Yolo County Animal Services, Sheriff’s Office of Yolo County, in its mission to improve the welfare of animals in Yolo County.

Mercer Veterinary Clinic

Mercer is a non-profit run by UC Davis veterinary students and volunteers who are passionate about helping animals and owners in need. We provide critical services such as flea and heartworm prevention, vaccinations, and free spay/neuter services to our clients.

NorCal Boxer Rescue

NCBR is a foster-based rescue for boxer dogs in northern California. We prioritize the most vulnerable dogs, including those who are old, ill, injured, or housed at the shelters where the risk of euthanasia is the greatest.

Purebreds Plus Cat Rescue

Purebreds Plus Cat Rescue (PPCR) is an organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, socialization, and rehoming of purebred and other exceptional cats and kittens into permanent homes. In addition, it further educates the public in the proper care of breeds and the importance of spaying and neutering.

Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue

The mission of Rotts of Friends is to educate and prevent irresponsible breeding and ownership of animals through the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of discarded and abused animals into forever homes.

ShepHeroes

ShepHeroes is a non-profit rescue organization with an experienced team of volunteers focused on carefully placing German Shepherd Dogs into loving homes matching their temperament, activity level, and needs. We focus on GSDs who are at risk due to abandonment, neglect, and abuse, or significant change in circumstances.

Yolo County SPCA

Our mission is to continuously improve the welfare of animals in the community through programs that promote the adoption of homeless animals into permanent and loving homes, provide humane education, advocate for spaying/neutering companion animals, and support trapping, altering and return of community cats.

Arts, Culture & Humanities

Acme Theatre Company

Our mission is to present plays of high literary quality while providing opportunities for young people to learn acting and technical theatre skills through peer and adult mentorship in an environment of mutual trust, respect, and responsibility.

Chamber Music Society of Sacramento

The Chamber Music Society of Sacramento (CMS) was founded to provide high quality chamber music to audiences in the greater Sacramento area, and to provide learning opportunities for youth and others who may not be familiar with the genre.

Davis Arts Center

Davis Arts Center is a gathering place for dynamic engagement with the arts. Through multidisciplinary classes and programs for the regional community, we inspire creative expression in people of all ages and foster an environment for the arts to flourish.

Davis Community Chorale

By performing great choral literature, the Davis Chorale is dedicated to enhancing the lives of the community, its audience and its members, in the belief that music elevates the spirit.

Davis Media Access

Our mission is to enrich and strengthen the community by providing alternatives to commercial media for local voices, opinions, and creative endeavors.

Davis Musical Theatre Company

Our mission is to create theater that is sustainable, invested in the community, and vibrantly, provocatively theatrical. We are a center for new work and creators of bespoke educational theater for young audiences.

Davis Shakespeare Festival

DSF strives toward cultural equity through storytelling and education that promotes cultural joy by maintaining spaces that are reflexive, inclusive, and accessible to limitless communities.

Davis School Arts Foundation

Arts and cultural education is crucial to the development of all children. The Davis School Arts Foundation provides partnership and support of culturally relevant arts education for children in Davis public schools. We do this through project grants, advocacy and arts integration training for educators.

Davis Youth Choir

The Davis Youth Choir serves youth by providing high quality vocal education, opportunities for self-expression, performance, and social interaction through music.

International House Davis

International House Davis (I-House) connects people, experiences, and perspectives within a global framework. Our programs, classes, services, and events provide opportunities to learn about and experience cultures from around the world, while building connections within our diverse local community.

Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre

The mission of The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre is to redefine dance as an active art form and an integral part of the human experience for all ages and all degrees of technical training.

Pence Gallery

The Pence Gallery’s mission is to serve the community through displaying high caliber art exhibits, supporting the development of local and regional artists, and offering educational programs for visitors of all ages.

West Sacramento Historical Society

The West Sacramento Historical Society is an allvolunteer group of dedicated individuals interested in preserving, collecting, educating, exhibiting, and interpreting the history of West Sacramento and its surrounding diverse community.

Wildflower Women’s Ensemble

Wildflower Women’s Ensemble was born of the desire to create vibrant classical theatre with entirely female/ female presenting/non-binary casts, dedicated to creating vibrant, lively, and wild Shakespeare.

Winters Museum

The Winters Museum and the Historical Society of Winters are dedicated to preserving and sharing the rich history of Winters and the Winters area through educational events, research, oral histories, and photo and artifact exhibits.

Woodland Opera House Inc

The Woodland Opera House has enjoyed continued success in its mission to preserve and operate this historical, community treasure for the benefit of the area and to nurture performing arts.

Yolo County Fair Museum

The Yolo County Historical Society is working with the Woodland Parlor 30 Native Sons of the Golden West, the 40th District Agricultural Association Board of Directors, and other local historical groups to convert a fairgrounds office building into the Yolo County Fair Museum.

YoloArts

YoloArts believes arts and cultural practices transform our daily interactions by sparking dialogue, building empathy, and encouraging shared experiences. We strive to inspire a flourishing arts and cultural ecosystem in Yolo County by serving the community, individual artists, and arts organizations.

Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Davis Phoenix Coalition

The mission of the Davis Phoenix Coalition is to gather and engage the community to eliminate intolerance, for the purpose of preventing hate motivated violence and cultivating a civic culture that embraces and promotes all aspects of the city’s diverse community.

Do Good Shop

The mission of Do Good Shop is to provide victims of exploitation safe, ethical artisan employment and connect shoppers with an easy way to empower survivors of injustice, homelessness, poverty, trafficking, and oppression with a hand up.

The People’s Vanguard of Davis

The People’s Vanguard of Davis is a community-based watchdog and news reporting organization that publishes daily coverage of local government and criminal justice reform.

Yolo County CASA

Our CASA volunteers advocate for abused and neglected children in the foster system to ensure their voices are heard and their needs are met. We champion, without compromise, for the best interest of every Yolo County foster child.

Community Improvement, Capacity Building Downtown Streets Team

Downtown Streets Team advocates for those with no voice, removes stigma and barriers to employment, and is ending homelessness through the dignity of work.

iDream-The Mac Give Back Project

iDream-The Mac Give Back Project provides technology/training to those who have a need. Our mission is to find those who reside on the side of the digital divide that contains limited or no access to technology.

The Bike Campaign

Promote biking as an alternative to cars, educate the community on best bike-riding practices, and celebrate the health benefits of biking.

Winters Friends of The Library

The Winters Friends of the Library is an all volunteer organization. We promote library involvement, increase literacy, foster a love of reading, and enhance community culture.

Winters Senior Foundation

Bike Davis

To encourage and promote bicycling, improve infrastructure, influence policy, and advocate for a vibrant bicycle culture in Davis, California.

Cool Davis

Cool Davis works to create enduring community resilience through equitable and inclusive strategies that lower greenhouse gas emissions and help our region adapt to a changing climate.

Friends of the Woodland Public Library

The Friends of the Woodland Public Library (FOL), a nonprofit corporation, is an association of persons interested in books and libraries, whose purpose is to enrich the cultural and civic life of Woodland and to support the Woodland Public Library in its mission.

The Winters Senior Foundation is a local nonprofit, all volunteer, community-based organization representing and advocating for the senior population in the City of Winters and surrounding areas.

Women of AT&TSacramento Chapter

Women of AT&T is organized to connect and inspire members to achieve their personal and professional goals and to effect change in the community.

Woodland Host Lions Charities Inc

To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.

Woodland TV (Formerly known as WAVE TV Channel 21)

Woodland TV provides the opportunity for our community to speak and share freely through public access media.

Yolo Conflict Resolution Center

We are a community-based center working to help people resolve conflicts by delivering mediation, facilitation, education, and restorative justice services.

Yolo County Library Foundation

The Yolo County Library Foundation (YCLF) supports Yolo County Library’s mission to “provide access for all to ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire.”

Economic Development

New Season Community Development Corporation

New Season Community Development Corporation seeks to revitalize the downtown area of Esparto and the small towns in rural northwestern Yolo County. We purchase properties, rehabilitate them, and find new commercial tenants with businesses that will add to the local economy and create new jobs for community residents.

Education

Creating Opportunities for Educational Development COED

COED was created to provide financial and professional support to deserving yet underprivileged students who could not otherwise afford higher education.

Davis Farm to School

The mission of Davis Farm to School is to create an educational and cultural environment in our schools that connects food choices with personal health, community, farms and the land.

Davis Robotics Foundation

We transform our communities through education; we engage people of all ages through outreach; we inspire others with our commitment to excellence. We strive to Educate, Empower, and Excel.

Davis Schools Foundation

Engage the greater Davis community to mobilize resources and provide financial support to our local public schools, helping to ensure effective and equitable learning environments that emphasize social, emotional, and physical well being for all students.

Explorit Science Center

“To ignite and foster curiosity about science and nature through inquiry and discovery.” Explorit’s mission is achieved by providing onsite and traveling school based programs that engage students, parents and families in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) learning through hands-on, minds-on activities.

Friends of the 1883 Clarksburg Schoolhouse

Our mission is to restore the iconic 1883 Clarksburg Schoolhouse in order to establish a facility to enhance economic activity in Clarksburg and the Delta by creating a Delta Welcome Center.

Friends of the Clarksburg Library

Friends of the Clarksburg Library ensures a place for learning, enrichment, and civic and community engagement in the rural community of Clarksburg.

Friends of the Yolo Branch Library

The Friends of the Yolo Branch Library supports the Yolo Branch Library in its service to the communities of Dunnigan, Yolo, Zamora, and the surrounding rural areas. We work in concert with the library staff to understand the communities’ needs, develop services to meet those needs, and build community engagement.

Friends of the Yolo County Archives

The Archives Preserves The Past And Saves Our Stories: Friends of the Yolo County Archives is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to support the services, staff, and facilities of the Yolo County Archives.

MOSAIC Children’s Museum

MOSAIC (Museum of Science, Art, Imagination, and Creativity) Children’s Museum enlightens, inspires, and empowers children in their lifelong learning journey while developing their imaginations and artistic abilities.

Soroptimist International of Woodland

A local volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.

TESE Foundation

TESE Foundation arose from advocating and improving the lives of Black girls in the USA in the form of a leadership academy and a mentorship program, and in developing countries like Zimbabwe with food and shelter as well as tuition.

The Friends of the Esparto Regional Library

The Friends of the Esparto Regional Library (FERL) promotes lifelong learning and discovery through the promotion of literacy. The mission of FERL shall be to establish closer relations between the Esparto Regional Library, the communities it serves along with the local school district.

University Farm Circle

Founded in 1914, University Farm Circle connects the University of California at Davis campus with the surrounding communities through friendship, enrichment, and scholarships.

West Sacramento Friends of the Library

The West Sacramento Friends of the Library (WSFOL) supports the Arthur F. Turner Community Library by raising funds to develop diverse collections, encourage reading and literacy programs for all ages, and promote the library as an educational and cultural center for the entire West Sacramento community.

Winters Education Foundation

Our mission is to raise sufficient funds to ensure continued educational excellence and equal educational opportunities for every child in a Winters public school classroom.

Winters Music Boosters

Winters Music Boosters is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing financial support and volunteer assistance to help maintain the music programs in Winters public schools.

Winters Participation Gallery

Winters Participation Gallery sponsors the Winters Historical Mural Project, providing a unique creative and artistic opportunity for Winters’ youth to learn about the town’s history and translate that into an exterior mural, beautifying Winters one wall at a time.

Winters Robotics Inc

Winters Robotics, Inc.’s mission is to support the educational efforts of the Winters Robotics Club.

Woodland Train Depot

The Woodland Train Depot is part of the Sacramento Valley Historical Railways and is a fellowship of volunteers who are dedicated to community service and education through the preservation and operation of historic railroad equipment and structures in the Sacramento Valley.

Environment

Cache Creek Conservancy

The Cache Creek Conservancy preserves, restores, and enhances the Cache Creek watershed.

California Native Grasslands Association

The mission of the California Native Grasslands Association is to promote, preserve, and restore the diversity of California’s native grasses and grassland ecosystems through education, advocacy, research, and stewardship.

Putah Creek Council

Our mission is to protect and restore habitat in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of all. Putah Creek Council supports regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship.

Tree Davis

Our mission is to enhance and expand the urban forest by teaching the people of our community to plant and care for trees.

Tuleyome

Tuleyome was founded in 2002 as a volunteer advocacy-oriented nonprofit conservation organization. Tuleyome engages in advocacy and active stewardship with diverse communities to conserve, enhance, restore, and enjoy the lands in the region.

UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden

The UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden serves the regional community as a living museum connecting people with the environment and the work of the UC Davis campus. We inspire human potential to help people and environments thrive!

Woodland Tree Foundation

Woodland Tree Foundation is a local grassroots organization which mobilizes and trains volunteers to plant and care for shade trees to help Woodland reach its goal of 25% tree coverage by 2035 as per Woodland’s Climate Action Plan. Our motto is: “Building Community Through Canopy.”

Yolo Basin Foundation

Yolo Basin Foundation is dedicated to expanding public appreciation and stewardship of wetlands and wildlife in the Yolo Basin through education and innovative partnerships.

Food, Agriculture & Nutrition

Center for Land-Based Learning

Our mission is to inspire, educate, and cultivate future generations of farmers, agricultural leaders and natural resource stewards.

Community Alliance With Family Farmers

To build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems.

Meals on Wheels Yolo County

Our mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of individuals in Yolo County with emphasis on those age 60 and older, by providing nutritious meals to active and homebound people thereby promoting their health, well-being, and independence.

Winters Farm to School

Our mission is to raise funds to provide fresh, local produce, fruits and nuts for our children’s school food program; to educate children about the positive, long-term health benefits of healthy eating habits; and to reconnect children to the rich, deeply rooted agricultural heritage in the community.

Woodland Volunteer Bureau Food Closet

The Woodland Food Closet provides a basic, direct service. Our clients are individuals, families, seniors, children and infants. The Woodland Food Closet is the only agency in Woodland to provide food distribution on a daily basis, Monday through Friday.

Yolo Farm to Fork

Our mission is to educate the public, especially our children, about the value of a farm-to-table community food system that also teaches us to value the environment.

Yolo Food Bank

Yolo Food Bank durably increases food and nutrition security and helps create an equitable and sustainable local food system by connecting individuals and families to healthy, high-quality food and resources; collaborating with community partners to deepen outreach and address food needs; and convening key players in the community.

Yolo Land Trust

Yolo Land Trust has one simple & vital mission: to conserve farmland in Yolo County. We have partnered with over 40 family farmers who agreed to keep their farms in farming forever. Now, more than 12,000 acres in Yolo County will always grow food.

Health Care Cancer Champions

The Cancer Champions mission is to build an empowering community where cancer survivors gain physical, mental, and emotional support through our specialized fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs, as well as private, one-on-one coaching.

Clínica Tepati

Clínica Tepati operates under a three part mission rooted in providing equitable health services, life-long education, and patient advocacy. Our advocacy stems from the belief that healthcare is an inherent right for all people.

CommuniCare Health Centers

CommuniCare Health Centers’ mission is rooted in the underlying philosophy that health care is a right, not a privilege. We provide comprehensive and high-quality health care to anyone in our community, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.

Friends of Adult Day Health Care

Friends of Adult Day Health Care (FADHC) is committed to promoting the health, dignity, and independence of frail older and disabled adults and their caregivers by supporting Yolo Adult Day Health Center through fundraising and community awareness.

Thriving Pink

Thriving Pink helps those in Yolo County impacted by breast cancer to thrive through a compassionate network of support and resources in partnership with the community. Our vision is that no one in Yolo County goes through breast cancer alone.

Winters Healthcare

We provide compassionate care as partners with our community to improve lives and inspire health.

YoloCares

Our mission is to serve our communities by providing the highest quality of care for every patient, every family, every time.

Housing, Shelter

Fourth & Hope

It is the mission of Fourth & Hope to feed, clothe, shelter, and facilitate recovery to those in need and to show the love of Jesus Christ in words and actions. We provide a safe, welcoming environment to all and do not discriminate against any protected classes.

Human Services

BRIGHT Children International

BRIGHT provides training and education on how to incorporate therapeutic techniques into daily activities to present stimulus and encourage development. BRIGHT supplies consultative services in Music Therapy, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Recreational Therapy, and Education. BRIGHT Children International: Bringing Resources to Inspire Growth, Healing, and Transformation.

Davis Community

Meals and Housing

The purpose of Davis Community Meals is to provide low-income and homeless individuals and families with housing, food, and human services to help them rebuild their lives.

Empower Yolo

Empower Yolo’s mission is to promote safe, healthy, and resilient communities through community outreach and educational programs about available resources to promote health, stability, and self-sufficiency for individuals and families.

Grace in Action Inc

Our purpose is to restore hope and dignity through compassionate care, spiritual companionship, and referrals to local agencies. Our goal is for guests to know they are welcome and valued. Once a person trusts an organization and feels cared for, the services and referrals we offer are more likely to be accepted.

Mercy Coalition

The Mercy Coalition exists as an expression of tangible and intangible embrace to those impacted by homelessness and poverty in West Sacramento. We are a diverse and inclusive interfaith collaborative, mobilized for works of compassion and empowerment, holding reverence and worth for each individual and the story they’re in.

Purple Tree Café

Our mission is to provide community-based employment for people with disabilities and to promote an inclusive community of people with and without disabilities. We provide employment in baking and selling vegan treats; we promote community through music, art, and community events.

Short Term Emergency Aid Committee (STEAC)

The mission of the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee (STEAC) is to provide immediate shortterm assistance with basic necessities to Yolo County families and individuals with incomes below the poverty level.

Special Olympics Northern California

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship.

Yolo County Children’s Alliance

Yolo County Children’s Alliance helps families, particularly non-English speaking families, access services, learn valuable parenting skills, and find support. We do this through family strengthening programs which focus on the following areas: family support, education, and community collaboration and advocacy.

Yolo Crisis Nursery

The mission of the Yolo Crisis Nursery is to provide early intervention services in a safe environment to nurture healthy and resilient children, strengthen parents, and preserve families.

Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance

The Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance promotes the well-being of older adults through Education, Collaboration, and Advocacy.

Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network

Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network (YIIN) is a group of people serving and advocating for immigrants in Yolo County. We believe that by working together we can make our community a better place for all of us to live and thrive.

Mental Health & Crisis Intervention

All Things Right and Relevant

We provide employment development opportunities for Yolo County mental health clients and supplemental funding for nonprofit agencies serving the mental health needs of Yolo County when possible. As a secondary mission, we provide a resource to reduce carbon emissions and waste by reusing, repurposing and recycling through local second-hand shopping.

NAMI Yolo County

NAMI Yolo County provides advocacy, support, education, and public awareness so that all individuals and families who are affected by mental health conditions can build better lives.

Progress Ranch Treatment Services for Children

To inspire hope and healing by empowering families; serving with integrity; and celebrating diversity, resiliency, and community.

Yolo Community Care Continuum

Yolo Community Care Continuum is a non-profit organization established to better the lives of people with a mental illness through direct services, housing and homeless services, advocacy, education and volunteer efforts. Yolo Community Care Continuum excels as a dynamic presence in our community.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking Orgs

Soroptimist International of Davis

Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.

West Sacramento Foundation

Our mission is for, and about, the people of West Sacramento. The West Sacramento Foundation is an all-volunteer organization that helps local nonprofits become stronger and do more to improve the quality of life for children, teens, adults, and senior citizens.

Yolo Childrens Fund Inc

The mission of the Yolo Children’s Fund is to enhance the quality of life for under-served, abused or disadvantaged children and teens by providing for a special project, need or enrichment service that would otherwise go unmet.

Yolo Community Foundation

The Yolo Community Foundation inspires and supports giving and provides philanthropic leadership in our diverse community.

Public Safety & Disaster Preparedness

Yolo County Search and Rescue Team

The Yolo County Search and Rescue Team provides assistance to the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office and the California Office of Emergency Services outside of Yolo County. The team is oncall 24 hours a day and is ready for both urban and wilderness searches.

Recreation & Sports

Friends of Clarksburg Services and Recreation

The Friends of the Clarksburg Services and Recreation (FCSR) is a 501c3 designated, community organization founded in 2019 for the purpose of establishing and supporting public park space in the North Delta region. FCSR is currently working to create a Clarksburg Community Park and Aquatic Center.

River City

Rowing Club

We are driven to get people rowing and keep people rowing.

Team Davis

Team Davis was established to help enrich the lives of children and adults with intellectual, developmental, and/or physical disabilities. We sponsor athletic, social, recreational, and educational activities that help build physical skills, a sense of camaraderie, and a fully integrated connection with the community for our participants, families and support staff.

UC Davis Women’s Crew

The purpose of this team is to provide the opportunity for students to practice the sport of rowing at a competitive, collegiate level under the tutelage of a trained coaching staff, while promoting team unity in a supportive environment.

Woodland Cal Ripken Youth Baseball League

Our mission is to provide participants the very best educational sports experience possible. We believe that every child with a desire to play baseball be afforded the opportunity. We teach skills, mental and physical development, a respect for the rules of the game, and basic ideals of sportsmanship.

Woodland Recreation Foundation

Our mission is to support the City of Woodland Community Service Department and provide financial assistance for recreational programs for all ages in the Woodland Community.

Woodland Tennis Club

The purpose of the Woodland Tennis Club is to promote, encourage and foster the development and growth of tennis for the Woodland community. WTC strives to make tennis accessible to all ages and skill levels through social, instructional and team-based activities.

Youth Development 4-H California Youth Development Program

The 4-H Youth Development Program ignites the joy of learning while developing citizenship, leadership, and life skills in young people.

All Leaders Must Serve

All Leaders Must Serve (ALMS) is a mentor program that empowers through job readiness to young adults ages 15 to 25 to become self-sufficient, prepared for living-wage jobs, and who will give back to their communities.

Keep Playing Baseball

Keep Playing Baseball (“KPB”) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing the most accurate information and advice on the college baseball search and recruiting process at no cost. We believe baseball can act as a vehicle to higher education and better life outcomes.

Make it Happen for Yolo County

Make it Happen for Yolo County provides gently-used furniture, small appliances and household supplies as well as resources and support for under-resourced and at-risk transitional aged youth (TAY) ages 16-24 moving into independent living situations.

Scouting Associates Inc

Our mission is to maintain the Woodland Boy Scout cabin in good working order so that the young to have a place to learn life skills and to grow into outstanding adults with service as part of their life.

Sierra Club FoundationSACRAMENTO ICO

Sierra Club Inspiring Connections OutdoorsSacramento is a community outreach program that provides opportunities for people with limited access to the outdoors, especially youth, to safely explore and enjoy the natural world and outdoor recreation.

Woodland Schools Foundation

Woodland Schools Foundation works to support students and teachers in the local public schools. With your help, WSF funds help to educate students and to support after school activities.

YMCA of Superior California

Inspiring all people to a healthy life -- in spirit, mind, and body.