California Wildfires: How You Can Help

↑ Pacific Palisades, California (January 8, 2025)

January 17, 2025

The Foundation has prepared a list of community foundations and other national and local organizations that have established relief efforts in California. Although not an exhaustive list, you can also make a grant using your donor-advised fund at the Foundation or contribute directly to provide support. If you are a Foundation fundholder and have questions, please contact cfa@cfabilene.org. Our thoughts are with the communities impacted by these devastating wildfires in Southern California.

Community Foundations

California Community Foundation: Wildfire Recovery Fund

Kern Community Foundation

Latino Community Foundation: California Wildfire Relief Fund and the Just Recovery Partnership

Pasadena Community Foundation: Eaton Canyon Fire Relief Fund

Ventura County Community Foundation

Community Foundation Partnerships

People First Fund for Southern California Wildfires: A partnership between community foundations and the Emergency Assistance Foundation. The Fund provides direct cash grants to impacted individuals and families for urgent needs, such as temporary shelter, food, clothing, and other self-identified essentials, filling critical gaps in traditional disaster response systems. People First Fund puts money directly into the hands of those impacted, allowing them the dignity and autonomy to meet their immediate needs as quickly as possible — while supporting long-term recovery and resilience.

amLos Angeles Food Bank

SupplyBank.org Disaster Relief Fund

United Way of Greater Los Angeles: Wildfire Response Fund

Support for Families & Workers

Baby2Baby: Provides children living in poverty with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities.

Friends in Deed: is a nonprofit providing services for the homeless, as it opens its Bad Weather Shelter amid the fires.

LAUSD Education Emergency Relief Fund: Offering direct cash assistance and support to families and employees affected by the fires; support teachers and in-class resources for students at impacted schools, ensuring continuity of learning to the greatest extent possible; provide flexible assistance for mental health support; and offer support for other immediate and long-term needs for students, families, and teachers.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON): Providing crucial support to immigrant day laborers, undocumented workers, and mixed-status families impacted by the wildfires.

Project Camp: organization that is headed to LA to create pop-up camps for kids affected by the wildfires. The camps provide normalcy for the kids and allow parents the time to put their lives back together following disasters.

The Black Music Action Coalition: Focus on Black residents and small businesses in Los Angeles.

The Dream Center: an L.A.-based charitable organization, is offering emergency shelter to those evacuated in the Palisades and Eaton Canyon Fires.

This Is About Humanity: Front and second-line migrant farm workers, day laborers, and other essential workers and their families severely impacted by the recent fires in Los Angeles.

World Central Kitchen: provides chef-prepared meals to communities impacted by natural disasters.

Support for First Responders

CAL FIRE Benevolent Foundation

California Fire Foundation Wildfire & Disaster Relief Fund

Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

Los Angeles Police Foundation

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON): Support for incarcerated firefighters are on the front lines of the wildfires across Southern California.

Watch Duty is an app (and nonprofit) that alerts users of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firefighters Fund