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Click on a foundation name below for guidelines, annual reports, and board information. Please review the current guidelines for each foundation carefully because they are periodically revised.

If you determine that none of these foundations is a good fit for your organization or program, you can do additional research at the Foundation Center by visiting their website, www.fdncenter.org. There, you will also be able to find the locations of the Foundation Center's libraries and cooperating collections, where you can have free access to their database of foundation information.

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Bella Vista Foundation

Bella Vista Foundation funds in the area of early childhood development in Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and environmental restoration projects in certain watersheds in California and Oregon. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures and other important information about the foundation.

Bothin Foundation

The Bothin Foundation makes grants for capital, building, and equipment needs to organizations providing direct services to low-income, at-risk children, youth and families, the elderly and disabled in San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, and San Mateo Counties. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures, and other important information about the foundation.

Cleo Foundation

Cleo Foundation makes grants in education, outdoor education, and hospice care in San Francisco and Mendocino counties. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures and other important information about the foundation.

Farese Foundation

The Farese Family Foundation supports programs in San Francisco and Marin Counties that provide innovation and reform in public education, and after-school programs. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures and other important information about the foundation.

Gamble Foundation

The Gamble Foundation makes grants in youth development, agricultural/environmental education, vocational training, and substance abuse and teen violence prevention in San Francisco, Marin and Napa counties. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures, and other important information about the foundation.

GGS Foundation

GGS Foundation makes grants in literacy, youth development, and substance abuse treatment in San Francisco and Marin Counties. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures, and other important information about the foundation.

Kimball Foundation

The Kimball Foundation makes grants in support of youth development and programs that serve the working poor in San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo and Sonoma Counties, and to a limited extent Santa Clara County, as far south as Palo Alto. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures, and other important information about the foundation.

Michelson Foundation

The Michelson Foundation is creating new guidelines, and is not currently accepting proposals.

Morris Stulsaft Foundation
The Morris Stulsaft Foundation is dedicated to the well-being of children and youth, and grants are made to organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo counties, and in northern Santa Clara county. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures and other important information about the foundation.
WLS Spencer Foundation

The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation makes grants in education and the arts in the United States. It may make a grant to a program outside the U.S., but only if that program has 501(c)(3) status in the U.S. The foundation accepts letters of inquiry. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for annual reports, detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures and other important information about the foundation.