On the 3rd of September, a press conference was held in Tsinghua University to mark the release of the China’s Top Trustworthy Charities of 2018, China’s first charity credit list.
The list was jointly completed by the Tsinghua University Charity Research Institute and the Beijing Yishan Credit Management Company. The former is one of the most authoritative research institutes in the charity industry in China, and the latter is a professional credit management company with more than 10 years of experience in the field of philanthropy data.
The list was developed with a sample of more than 4,000 charitable organizations, and 60 organizations were selected to be the top trustworthy ones based on an evaluation model with five indicators: transparency, financial capacity and team capability, network of partners, cooperative risk and brand popularity.
Due to the different fundraising types, the list includes two sub-lists. One is the top 30 government-funded fundraising charities, and the other is the top 30 grassroots fundraising charities. We list the top five of each below, for the complete rankings click here.
| Rank | Grass-Roots Based Fundraising Charities |
| 1 | China Charities Aid Foundation for Children |
| 2 | The Amity Foundation |
| 3 | One Foundation |
| 4 | Adream Foundation |
| 5 | See Foundation |
| Rank | Government Funded Fundraising Charities |
| 1 | China Children and Teenagers’ Fund |
| 2 | China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation |
| 3 | China Development Research Foundation |
| 4 | China Youth Development Foundation |
| 5 | China Siyuan Foundation for Poverty Alleviation |
In future the charity credit list will be released every year around the 5th of September, with the aim of eliminating the information and credit obstacles among different charities and donors, and to promote more charitable cooperation.
