Nonprofits in Houston
Drivers and businesses on Lunar can pick these nonprofits.
- Alley Theatre — Produces plays year round in downtown Houston as a resident professional theatre.
- BakerRipley — Runs neighborhood centers, Head Start, senior centers and free tax prep across Houston.
- Birds Houston — Protects 18 bird sanctuaries covering 4,300+ acres around Houston and Galveston.
- Bo's Place — Offers free grief support groups for children, teens and adults after a death.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston — Runs after school and summer clubs with homework help, meals and mentors for kids.
- Brighter Bites — Sends fresh fruit and vegetables home with school families, with nutrition lessons.
- Buffalo Bayou Partnership — Builds and cares for parks, trails and green space along Buffalo Bayou.
- Child Advocates — Trains volunteer court advocates for abused and neglected children in Harris County.
- Children's Museum Houston — Runs hands on learning exhibits and programs for young children in the Museum District.
- Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County — Leads the regional homeless response system that moves people from streets into homes.
- Combined Arms — Connects veterans and military families with jobs, housing, health and benefits help.
- Communities In Schools of Houston — Places staff inside schools to help students stay in school and graduate.
- Crisis Intervention of Houston — Answers crisis and suicide prevention lines for Houston adults and teens.
- DePelchin Children's Center — Provides foster care, adoption and children's mental health services across Houston.
- Friends For Life Animal Shelter — Runs a no kill shelter in the Heights that takes in pets regardless of age or health.
- Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — Runs Girl Scout troops, camps and leadership programs across Southeast Texas.
- Hermann Park Conservancy — Restores and cares for the gardens, trails and lake of Houston's historic Hermann Park.
- Honor Flight Houston — Flies veterans to Washington, DC, at no cost to see the memorials built in their honor.
- Houston Arboretum & Nature Center — Protects a nature sanctuary in Memorial Park and teaches kids about native ecosystems.
- Houston Area Women's Center — Runs a shelter, hotline and counseling for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
- Houston Food Bank — Gets food to 1,600+ pantries, schools and partners across 18 Southeast Texas counties.
- Houston Grand Opera — Stages opera at the Wortham Center and brings music programs to Houston schools.
- Houston Hospice — Provides nonprofit hospice care and free grief support from the Texas Medical Center.
- Houston Humane Society — Shelters and rehomes animals and runs a low cost vet clinic in south Houston.
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo — Funds scholarships, grants and youth livestock programs for Texas students.
- Houston Museum of Natural Science — Shows dinosaurs, gems and minerals, a planetarium and a butterfly center in Hermann Park.
- Houston Parks Board — Builds parks and connected bayou trails, including the Bayou Greenways network.
- Houston SPCA — Rescues, shelters and rehomes pets, farm animals and injured native wildlife.
- Houston Symphony — Performs orchestral concerts at Jones Hall and free community concerts across Houston.
- Houston Zoo — Cares for animals in Hermann Park and funds wildlife conservation projects worldwide.
- Kids' Meals — Delivers free healthy meals to the homes of hungry preschool children across Houston.
- Legacy Community Health — Runs community clinics offering primary, dental and HIV care on a sliding fee scale.
- Lone Star Legal Aid — Gives free civil legal help to low income Texans across the Gulf Coast and East Texas.
- Memorial Park Conservancy — Restores and maintains the trails, woods and prairie of Memorial Park's 1,500 acres.
- Mental Health America of Greater Houston — Trains schools, workplaces and families to spot and support mental health needs.
- Montrose Center — Provides counseling, health and community programs for Houston's LGBTQ+ community.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — Shows art from antiquity to today across its Museum District campus and house museums.
- New Hope Housing — Builds and runs affordable supportive apartments for Houstonians leaving homelessness.
- Orange Show Center for Visionary Art — Preserves Houston folk art landmarks and produces the annual Houston Art Car Parade.
- Project Row Houses — Turns a block of Third Ward row houses into artist projects and homes for young mothers.
- Second Servings of Houston — Rescues surplus prepared food from caterers and venues and delivers it to charities.
- Space Center Houston — Runs the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center and its STEM programs.
- Target Hunger — Runs food pantries and nutrition programs in Houston's northeast neighborhoods.
- The Rose — Provides mammograms and breast cancer care to women regardless of ability to pay.
- United Way of Greater Houston — Funds local agencies and answers 211 helpline calls across the Houston region.