A structured record of 162,639 nonprofit organizations registered across California — from Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento to every county in between. Named contacts, direct phone numbers, emails where on file, revenue figures, employee counts, and full addresses. Compiled from IRS filings and state charity registrations.
Each of the 162,639 California records includes the same 21 columns as the national file — organization name, full address, named contact, job title, direct contact details where on file, revenue and employee figures, NAICS classification, founding year, and geo-coordinates.
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The California portion of the NonProfitLists.com dataset contains 162,639 nonprofit organization records — every CA-registered 501(c) we have been able to cross-verify against IRS filings and state charity registrations. The set spans charities, private foundations, educational institutions, religious bodies, healthcare nonprofits, arts and cultural organizations, social service agencies, environmental groups, and advocacy organizations across Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento and every smaller community between them.
Because the data is delivered as one national CSV covering all 50 states, California is not sold as a separate file. The $379 purchase includes every state. If your work is California-specific, filtering to CA records in Excel or Google Sheets takes about ten seconds — and you retain the full national file for whenever a project expands beyond state lines.
Each of the 162,639 California rows carries the same 21 columns as every other row in the dataset: organization's full legal name, street address, city, CA state code, ZIP, named contact person with their job title, direct email (where on file), phone number, fax, toll-free number, website URL, total and site-level revenue, total and on-site employee counts, NAICS code, year founded, title classification code, and latitude/longitude coordinates. The file is UTF-8 CSV and opens in Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Apple Numbers, or any CRM that accepts CSV import.
California records are built on the same foundation as the national dataset: IRS Exempt Organization Business Master File entries; California charity registration records filed with the state Attorney General's office (where applicable); California Secretary of State business registry filings; and publicly listed organizational profiles. Every record traces to an official public source. We do not scrape social media, we do not generate synthetic contacts, and we do not include third-party data that isn't licensed for resale.
Grant writers and fundraising consultants based in California or serving California-registered clients use the file to build targeted prospect lists of foundations and operating nonprofits. Software vendors — donor CRMs, fundraising platforms, grant management tools, nonprofit accounting software — use it to reach Executive Directors and Development Officers at organizations that fit their ICP. Researchers at California universities use the NAICS, revenue, and founding-year fields for sector analysis. Journalists covering the California nonprofit landscape use it to source named contacts at specific organizations. And specialized providers — D&O insurance brokers, nonprofit attorneys, fiduciaries — use it to identify decision-makers in their territory.
Coverage rates for contact fields are disclosed exactly as found. Across the dataset, approximately 72 percent of records carry a phone number, 54 percent carry a website, 40 percent carry a fax, and 30 percent carry a direct email address. California's coverage distribution tracks closely with the national figures. Public records don't include full contact details for every organization, and we don't pretend they do. For bulk outreach, we recommend running the file through an email validation service like NeverBounce or ZeroBounce before sending — standard practice for any bulk B2B data.
With 162,639 organizations, California is the second-largest nonprofit record set of any U.S. state in this dataset — roughly 9.8% of all 1,653,289 records nationwide, and about 7.6× the median state. Only Florida contributes more records to the national file.
California's nonprofits concentrate in Greater Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, and the Sacramento capital region, with a substantial secondary presence in the Central Valley around Fresno. The mix reflects the state's scale: major research universities, large healthcare systems, technology-sector foundations, environmental groups, and immigrant and social-service organizations all register here in significant numbers.
California has one of the stricter charitable-registration regimes in the country. Charitable corporations, associations, and trustees doing business or holding property for charitable purposes in California must register with the Attorney General's Registry of Charities and Fundraisers within 30 days of first receiving charitable assets, using Form CT-1 with a $50 fee.
After initial registration, organizations renew annually with Form RRF-1, filed with either IRS Form 990/990-EZ/990-PF or Form CT-TR-1, generally due four months and fifteen days after the fiscal year ends. Organizations that fail to renew are listed as delinquent, which can jeopardize both their registration and their state tax exemption.
This is general background for context, not legal advice, and charitable-solicitation rules change. Confirm current requirements directly with the California Attorney General's Registry of Charities and Fundraisers before fundraising in California.
This dataset includes 162,639 California nonprofit records compiled from IRS Exempt Organization filings and state charity registrations — the second-largest set of any U.S. state in the file, about 9.8% of the 1,653,289 records nationwide.
Generally yes. California requires most charities doing business or holding charitable assets in the state to register with the Attorney General's Registry of Charities and Fundraisers within 30 days of first receiving assets, then renew each year.