Avery-Fuller-Welch Children's Foundation (Avery-Fuller Children's Center)
The mission of the Avery-Fuller-Welch Children's Foundation is to provide grant funding for early intervention and professional guidance to children with physical, behavioral, emotional, and learning challenges.
About Avery-Fuller-Welch Children's Foundation (Avery-Fuller Children's Center)
The Avery-Fuller-Welch Children's Foundation (legal EIN 94-1243657) is a California private foundation that has provided grant funding for children’s therapeutic and remedial services since its incorporation in 1914. The foundation makes grants (by invitation) to nonprofit providers that deliver speech therapy, psychotherapy, remedial education, physical/occupational therapy, and behavioral therapy for children from low-income families in the five Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo).
The foundation operates as a donor-facing philanthropic foundation (Form 990-PF filer) with multi-million dollar assets and consistent annual grantmaking. In recent years it has continued active grantmaking (annual grant budgets in the mid-hundreds of thousands) and maintains memorial grant programs (Ruth and David Wisnom Grant and Judge David B. Flinn Grant) to support high-needs children and remedial-education programs.
Notable achievements
Century-plus service
Originally incorporated in 1914 and maintaining charitable activity for more than a century, the foundation has a long history of funding early intervention and therapeutic services for children.
Sustained grantmaking
Maintains multi-year grant distributions (roughly $250K–$300K annually in recent filings) and asset base in the multi‑million dollar range to support Bay Area children’s therapy and remedial education needs.
Named memorial grants
Operates targeted memorial grant programs (Ruth and David Wisnom Grant; Judge David B. Flinn Grant) that direct funding to organizations serving children with high needs in the foundation’s priority areas.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $5.1M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Private non-operating foundation
- EIN
- 94-1243657
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Website
- afwchildrensfoundation.org
- On Mahalo since
- April 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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