Please choose whether this site may use cookies or related technologies as described below.
Required Cookies Required to enable core site functionality and provide secure log-in for online banking.
Functional Cookies Necessary to provide a full visitor experience, including live chat.
Marketing Cookies Allows us to analyze site usage to improve performance and serve ads on third party advertisers that are relevant to your interest.
Save My Preferences
Learn more about how this site uses cookies by reading our Privacy Statement.
At SAFE Credit Union we don't answer to shareholders, we answer to members. We answer to you. We sincerely hope you'll give us the opportunity to put YOU first.
What are you saving for? Whether it's a new car, a house, a dream vacation, or just saving for a rainy day, SAFE has a savings solution to help you reach your financial goals.
At SAFE we understand that borrowing money is often essential to making dreams a reality. Our professional experts are here to help - so let's get started. .
View balances, transfer money between your accounts, make a deposit, and much more. You get 24/7 access to your accounts from home, work, or anywhere in the world.
IOS App Rating/Android App Rating 4.8
Empower your future. Take advantage of our useful webinars to improve your financial well-being.
SAFE offers everything you need to manage your growing business, including full-service checking and savings accounts. Start your application online today.
Learn more about SAFE's Business Banking accounts, loans, and services directly from one of our experts.
Our advisors have the tools and experience to help you evaluate your situation and adapt your investment plan, when necessary, as your financial situation evolves.
SAFE Credit Union awards grants and scholarships. Learn how you can apply or nominated someone.
Log in and go to Member Benefits to see exclusive member pre-sales, discounts and more!
Learn how adding our suite of financial health services to your employee benefits package can help you solidify your position as an employer of choice.
When we invest in education, our Greater Sacramento community is strengthened, financial wellbeing grows, and the vitality of the region blossoms. That’s why education is a pillar of philanthropy for SAFE. SAFE promotes the benefits of education through scholarships, an innovative high school branch program, and direct donations to nonprofits who serve in the education space.
First Tee uses the many character-building aspects of the game of golf to teach kids how to become better students and make healthy life choices. Developing self-confidence, life skills, and sportsmanship are just a few ways First Tee helps kids become a better version of themselves. SAFE is proud to support this program with an annual donation of $10,000.
As a patron of the Aerospace Museum of California, SAFE helps support and expand operations, educational programs, and exhibitions celebrating the heritage of military and civilian aviation while enhancing awareness of aerospace science. The Aerospace Learning Center encourages students of all ages to explore, experience, and engage through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities.
Our Community Impact
To help students gain valuable hands-on experience, relevant job skills, and learn financial responsibility, SAFE developed partnerships with Mesa Verde, Rio Linda, and Cordova high schools to host and operate SAFE branches. Students participate in an immersive two-week internship at SAFE where they learn how to staff the branches and help their peers open and maintain checking and savings accounts. Then some students continue on and work in the high school branch throughout the school year.
Emilio first learned about financial wellness in the SAFE branch at Rio Linda High School. Through hands-on experience, Emilio discovered he liked banking, and decided to pursue it after graduation. Emilio is currently a Community Relations coordinator in SAFE’s Workplace Financial Wellness program providing the region’s largest employers with financial wellness services. SAFE has hired over 20 other high school branch employees through this program.
SAFE invited Sacramento-area high school students to design the 2023 stickers collection in a special contest. SAFE selected the top three designs that captured the theme: What Motivates YOU? Creators of the top three designs received $500, $300, and $100, respectively.
Collaboration, teamwork, and the ability to research are all qualities that make up winning teams. Participants in the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) Academic Decathlon know this first-hand. SAFE proudly sponsors this annual event to help students facilitate these skills and award scholarships to the winners at the annual awards ceremony.
SAFE awards $1,000 scholarships to aid graduating high school students with their college expenses. SAFE has provided more than 200 scholarships since 2011 to students pursuing higher education. Watch for SAFE’s annual call for scholarship entries every January for details on how to apply.
Scholarship recipients go on to attend a variety of excellent schools, including those in the Greater Sacramento region such as UC Davis, CSU Sacramento, and American River College.
The cost of medical school is exorbitant. To help offset some of those costs, SAFE donates $20,000 yearly to the UC Davis medical program. In addition, each year two UC Davis medical students receive a four-year scholarship grant of $40,000 per student. SAFE also helps fund the EVO (EVOlution Through College) program that provides student athletes with career development opportunities.
“I’m currently applying for a surgical intern year followed by a diagnostic radiology residency and hope to match somewhere in California. Regardless of where I complete my medical training, I know I want to return back home to my community in Sacramento as an attending physician.
I’m so grateful and humbled by SAFE’s contribution to my medical education over the last four years…It showed me that there was an amazing local organization looking out for me, in my corner, supporting me in every step of my journey.
To the SAFE family, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
“In the past four years, I poured my mental energy and time into seeing how I can help the community around me. Most recently, I have created the first-ever addiction medicine month-long rotation at our medical school where students will learn how to treat opioid and other substance use disorders at local Sacramento substance use treatment clinics.
SAFE’s incredible support has reduced my student loan burden by several tens of thousands of dollars. I will be able to dedicate time and energy toward figuring out how to improve access to health and health outcomes of this community – time that would have otherwise been consumed by struggling to pay off continually growing loans. And it is all because of SAFE Credit Union and your heart for medical students.
I am deeply thankful for your generosity.”
SAFE committed to giving $120,000 over four years to the Los Rios Colleges Foundation to help fund several large initiatives. Those include STEM scholarships, a new STEM Center, and scholarships for those in the Los Rios Promise Program that provides full-time students two years of tuition-free education at a Los Rios Community College District campus.
Thanks to SAFE’s support, we will be able to establish a new scholarship endowment as well as to offer vitally important scholarships to more than 120 Los Rios students over the next four years. This impact on our students will be far-reaching and will help so many of them reach their educational and career goals.
Brian King Los Rios Community College District Chancellor
SAFE enjoys a strong relationship with CSU Sacramento, providing financial wellness services and philanthropy. Recently, SAFE distributed $10,000 in $50 gift cards to college students at Sac State and community colleges who needed emergency funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former foster youths in college already faced numerous challenges. But when classes went completely online due to COVID-19, many were at a disadvantage because they didn’t have laptops. SAFE Credit Union was honored to provide a $10,000 grant to Foster Youth Education Fund to help them buy laptops so students could stay on top of their education.
If you click "continue" below, you will be directed to a third party's web site. As a member service, SAFE Credit Union offers links to web sites of third parties whose products or services we believe offer good value and may be of interest to you. In some cases, if allowed by law, SAFE Credit Union may receive compensation from third parties whose products or services you purchase. Third parties are solely responsible for their web sites, products and services, and maintain their own consumer data privacy policies, which may differ from those of SAFE Credit Union. Use of third party services, products and web sites is solely at your discretion. To go to a third party web site, click "continue." To go back to SAFE Credit Union's web site, click "close."
Not enrolled? Get Started!
Open a SAFE business account