Avery-Fuller-Welch Children's Foundation provides grants that allow low-income families with children in need of educational, psychological, and/or physical therapy to have access to those professional services. Grants are limited to services provided to residents of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. All applications must be submitted by the service provider.

Bella Vista Foundation funds in the area of early childhood development in Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties, and ecosystem 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.

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, and the 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 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.

The Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in a variety of areas including (but not limited to) churches, education, the arts, wildlife conservation, the challenges of aging, and the welfare of children and animals. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals.

The Eva Gunther Foundation's mission is to support the physical, social, moral, intellectual, creative, spiritual, psychological and emotional growth of motivated girls age 11 through 18 who have a demonstrable financial need. The Foundation also supports collaboration, cooperation and communication between and among Bay Area girl serving organizations. It was founded to honor the life of Eva Gunther, killed by a drunk driver at age 12 1/2.

The Farese Family Foundation supports programs in San Francisco and Marin counties that provide innovation and reform in public education, and early literacy education and enrichment. 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.

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 makes grants in literacy, healthy living, and vocational and workplace skills training for youth 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.

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.

The Margoes Foundation makes grants in the San Francisco Bay Area with a primary focus on college-access and mental health program. As a secondary focus the foundation also supports agencies providing scholarships to students from Asia and Africa to study in the United States and for promising biomedical scientists to engage in cardiovascular research. The foundation accepts proposals. Please click on the foundation’s icon to the left for detailed grantmaking guidelines, application procedures, and other important information about the foundation.

The Michelson Foundation makes grants in performing arts education programs, and adult residential mental health in Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco counties, and the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. Please check the Foundation’s guidelines for whether or not it is accepting 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.

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.