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Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. The foundation is most known for being the host of Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the world. It also hosts fourteen related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, the wiki software which underpins them all. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a non-profit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects which had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales' for-profit company.

Wayback Machine

digital archive founded by the Internet Archive

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

Linux Foundation

non-profit technology consortium for development of Linux and open source

micro-loan platform

Wiki Education Foundation

nonprofit organization

GiveWell is an American charity evaluator. GiveWell was founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, who aimed to rigorously assess the effectiveness of non-profits with the techniques they used while working at a hedge fund. Karnofsky and Hassenfeld initially promoted the project with sockpuppets on Internet forums and blogs, and they received early funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative. GiveWell later partnered with Good Ventures to establish Coefficient Giving.

Global Fund for Women

non-profit organization

San Francisco Ballet

American ballet company

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California

Common Sense Media

nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, United States

American grantmaking foundation

Tides Foundation

US-based public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive policy

movie theater in San Francisco, California, United States

Social Venture Network

social responsibility network

Global Lives Project

American nonprofit organization

Code for America

non-profit providing fellowships for web professionals to work on city projects