The Rylee + Cru Foundation | A History of Giving
The Rylee + Cru Foundation
A History of Giving
Since the Inception of Rylee + Cru, there has always been a desire to use the brand to promote good and find a way to give back to different communities, both on a local and national level.
By following their passion for philanthropy and hearts for others, the Rylee + Cru Collective Founders. Kevin Murray and Kelli Larson, created and founded The Rylee + Cru Foundation in 2017.
Our foundation is rooted in the idea of philanthro-capitalism meaning, business has the ability to create support and financial resources for those in need and that we can be better neighbors and citizens through taking action.
We are overcome with gratitude and appreciation for our team, our family, and our community.
Because of you, we are able to give back.
2023
Love Does
$10,000
Love Does is an organization fighting for human rights and supporting the vulnerable through targeted programs on the ground. We directly supported their Love Does Home, a San Diego initiative that is currently providing a community home in San Diego County to young, single mothers as a safe place where education, personal growth and self sufficiency are nurtured through loving support.
Baby2Baby
$24,000
BABY2BABY provides children living in poverty with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves. We are honored to partner with them to support moms in need of basic supplies for their babies in areas lacking resources.
World Vision
$48,000
World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organization that partners with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. We targeted clean water programs in Africa as it was specifically an issue that negatively affected young women in these regions as lack of access to water in rural communities was a prime indicator of lower amounts of girls being educated.
Angels Foster Family Network
$45,000
Angels Foster Family Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe, stable, loving homes for infants and toddlers in foster care throughout the County of San Diego, California.
This organization is led by former Resource (Foster) Parents.
Make A Wish Foundation
$25,000
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in the United States that helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness.
Charity Water
$27,752
Charity Water is a non-profit organization that provides drinking water to people in developing nations.
2022
Love Does
$100,000
Love Does fights for human rights, caring for the vulnerable and providing education in conflict zones since 2002.
Charity Water
$30,000
Tiny Heroes Campaign - Kids are doing inspiring, heartwarming, and over-the-top incredible things for clean water, so we created an annual award to celebrate these Tiny Heroes.
World Vision
$50,000
World Vision is on the ground in Eastern Europe preparing to meet the needs of children and families who have been forcibly displaced due to the escalating crisis in Ukraine by providing protection and psychosocial support.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
$45,000
As the nation's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers ("Bigs") and children ("Littles"), ages 7 through 18, in communities across the country.
Make-A-Wish Foundation
$32,500
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in the United States that helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness.
Food for the Hungry
$20,344
Since 2017, we have supported 10 young girls in Indonesia with monthly support. This donation will go towards building a new classroom to give these students a new place to learn and develop skills for building a brighter future.
Lighthouse for Hope
$12,500
Lighthouse for Hope strives to fight alongside families experiencing the physical, emotional, and financial setbacks caused by pediatric cancer by providing them with support and
assistance for day-to-day necessities.
Angels Foster Family Network
$16,765
Angels Foster Family Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe, stable, loving homes for infants and toddlers in foster care throughout the County of San Diego,
California. The organization is led by current and former parents who have fostered.
Mission World Waco
$12,500
Mission World strives to eliminate poverty across the globe through a holistic approach and hands-on compassion by empowering the poor, mobilize the middle-class and address systemic issues in order to serve the less fortunate in Mexico, Haiti and South Asia.
Baby 2 Baby
$12,500
Baby2Baby is a mega diaper bank and nonprofit organization providing essential items to children in need across the country. In the last 11 years, Baby2Baby has distributed over 270 million items to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals and underserved schools as well as children who have lost everything in the wake of disaster.
Feeding San Diego
$20,000
Established in 2007, Feeding San Diego is the leading hunger-relief and food rescue organization in San Diego County and the only Feeding America member in the region. Feeding San Diego provides more than 40.3 million meals every year to children, families, seniors, college students, military families, veterans, people facing homelessness, and other underserved populations.
2021
Food for the Hungry
$25,000
Food for the Hungry is an international relief, development, and advocacy organization with operations in more than 20 countries providing resources and medical aid to those in unimaginable hardships.
Plant with Purpose
$2,500
Plant With Purpose is an international nonprofit organization working at the intersection of poverty alleviation, environmental restoration, and spiritual renewal.
Charity Water
$32,500
Charity Water is a non-profit organization that provides drinking water to people in developing nations
Make-A-Wish Foundation
$13,000
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in the United States that helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness.
Feeding San Diego
$20,000
Established in 2007, Feeding San Diego is the leading hunger-relief and food rescue organization in San Diego County and the only Feeding America member in the region. Feeding San Diego provides more than 40.3 million meals every year to children, families, seniors, college students, military families, veterans, people facing homelessness, and other underserved populations.
World Vision
$100,000
While partnering with World Vision, The Rylee and Cru Foundation donated products ranging from apparel to accessories and swaddles to families in need all over the world.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
$25,000
As the nation's largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers ("Bigs") and children ("Littles"), ages 7 through 18, in communities across the country.
Mission World Waco
$12,500
Mission World strives to eliminate poverty across the globe through a holistic approach and hands-on compassion by empowering the poor, mobilize the middle-class and address systemic issues in order to serve the less fortunate in Mexico, Haiti and South Asia.
Baby 2 Baby
$12,500
Baby2Baby is a mega diaper bank and nonprofit organization providing essential items to children in need across the country. In the last 10 years, Baby2Baby has distributed over 200 million items to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals and underserved schools as well as children who have lost everything in the wake of disaster.
Lighthouse for Hope
$12,500
Lighthouse for Hope strives to fight alongside families experiencing the physical, emotional, and financial setbacks caused by pediatric cancer by providing them with support and
assistance for day-to-day necessities.
Make-A-Wish Foundation
$12,500
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in the United States that helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness.
Angels Foster Family Network
$12,500
Angels Foster Family Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe, stable, loving homes for infants and toddlers in foster care throughout the County of San Diego,
California. The organization is led by current and former parents who have fostered.
2020
Boys and Girls Club of San Diego
$25,000
The Boys and Girls Club of San Diego serves our city by inspiring and enabling youth between the ages of 5 and 18 to achieve academic success, build good character and responsible citizenship, and make healthy lifestyle choices through ongoing programs and guidance through their 20 community-based sites.
Big Brothers and Sisters of San Diego
$15,000
As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer-supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 7 through 18, in communities across the country.
The Conscious Kid
$25,000
The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth.
Facing History
$20,000
Facing history helps mold our future by teaching students about racism and bigotry.
Little Birthday Angels
$7,264
Little Angels provides themed birthday parties for homeless children on the Florida Coast at area shelters.
Hugs & Bags
$7,264
Hugs and Bags started as an idea to raise awareness for San Diego's homeless population and over time has grown from a concept to a love movement. They now provide clothing, warm meals, basic medical services, haircuts, and personal hygiene accessories to those in need. The primary focus groups HaB serves are homeless teens, vets, immigrants, and single parents.
Little Angels provides themed birthday parties for homeless children on the Florida Coast at area shelters.
World Vision
$25,000
World Vision is one of the world's largest (and most effective) humanitarian non-profits which is operating on almost every continent. We've been very involved with WV for years and worked with them on a number of projects in the past. For this donation, we gave to their India Project which focuses on building a community center for children rescued from sex trafficking/slavery.
Baby 2 Baby
$2,500
Baby 2 Baby provides children living in poverty, ages 0-12 years, with diapers, clothing, and all the basic necessities that every child deserves. To date, they have distributed over 50 million basic essentials.
Lighthouse for Hope
$2,500
Lighthouse for Hope strives to fight alongside families experiencing the physical, emotional, and financial setbacks caused by pediatric cancer by providing them with support and assistance for day-to-day necessities.
Mission Waco
$2,500
Mission Waco is a dynamic inner-city organization that mobilizes middle-class Americans to become more compassionately involved among the poor. The organization seeks ways to overcome the systemic issues of social injustice which oppress the poor and marginalized, including women and children in need, and do work across the city of Waco to serve those communities most in need of resources.
San Diego Food Bank
$2,500
The Jacobs & Cushman SD Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in San Diego County. On average, they serve 350K people per month and partner with nearly 500 nonprofits to provide nutritious food to individuals and families across the county.
Angels Foster Family Network
$2,500
Angels Foster Family Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe, stable, loving homes for infants and toddlers in foster care throughout the County of San Diego, California. The organization is led by current and former parents who have fostered.
Promises 2 Kids
$2,500
Promises2Kids is a leading nonprofit organization originally founded over 35 years ago as the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation of San Diego. Since 1981, P2K has responded to the needs of foster children and provided support to children removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect. This organization is especially close to our hearts being an San Diego based company.
2019
Olive Tree Projects
$2,500
Olive Tree Projects was created to help children in Haiti. We believe that the best way to achieve this goal is through 'family preservation' efforts - a term that has stemmed from a movement to keep children out of institutions.
Angels Foster Family Network
$52,500
Angels Foster Family Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe, stable, loving homes for infants and toddlers in foster care throughout the County of San Diego, California. The organization is led by current and former parents who have fostered.
Every Mother Counts
$26,831
Every Mother Counts works worldwide to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for everyone, everywhere and reduce risks related to giving birth. They are dedicated to understanding the challenges of and opportunities for improving access to maternity care around the world.
Lighthouse for Hope
$2,500
Lighthouse for Hope strives to fight alongside families experiencing the physical, emotional, and financial setbacks caused by pediatric cancer by providing them with support and assistance for day-to-day necessities.
Christ in the City
$2,500
Christ in the City is a Catholic program dedicated both to forming young adults, volunteers, and the greater community to be lifelong missionaries and to knowing, loving, and serving the poor.
Northeast Animal Shelter
$2,500
Northeast Animal Shelter, established in 1976, is one of New England’s largest non-profit, no-kill animal shelters. Since opening their doors, they have placed over 140,000 cats and dogs.
Casa Theresa
$2,500
Casa Theresa provides pregnant women in crisis with a loving home to begin their healing journey in order to break cycles and transform women at risk.
2018
Every Mother Counts
$14,000
Every Mother Counts works worldwide to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for everyone, everywhere and reduce risks related to giving birth. They are dedicated to understanding the challenges of and opportunities for improving access to maternity care around the world.
World Vision
$50,000
World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organization that partners with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. We targeted clean water programs in Africa as it was specifically an issue that negatively affected young women in these regions as lack of access to water in rural communities was a prime indicator of lower amounts of girls being educated.
Savvy Giving
$20,000
Savvy Giving rebuilds interior spaces for children and families facing a medical crisis to strengthen and encourage recovery. In this specific project we designed and funded the
renovation of children's room facing cancer.
2017
Savvy Giving
$50,000
Savvy Giving rebuilds interior spaces for children and families facing a medical crisis to strengthen and encourage recovery. In this specific project we designed and funded the
renovation of children's room facing cancer.
World Vision
$50,000
World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organization that partners with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. We targeted clean water programs in Africa as it was specifically an issue that negatively affected young women in these regions as lack of access to water in rural communities was a prime indicator of lower amounts of girls being educated.
Food for the Hungry
Ongoing, we started here and continue today at $350.00 a month donation to sponsor 10 girls going to school in Indonesia.