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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 and different for every foundation.

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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	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, the elderly, 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 Farese Family Foundation supports programs in San Francisco and Marin counties that provide innovation and reform in public education, and 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, 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.
	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 Michelson Foundation makes grants in education, theater education, early literacy, 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 Morris Stulsaft Foundation makes grants for programs serving children and youth in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties(except East 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 William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in several areas including (but not exclusively) medical research, access to college, the arts and higher education. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals. Grants are not made to individuals.
	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.