We provide grants that allow low-income families with children in need of supportive, remedial therapy to have access to those professional services.
We provide grants that allow low-income families with children in need of supportive, remedial therapy to have access to those professional services.
Funding Priorities
Treatment and Therapy Grants
Grants are made in five program areas: speech therapy (including devices, such as hearing aids), psychotherapy, remedial education, physical and/or occupational therapy (including devices that help mobility and functionality), and behavioral therapy.
Grants are made through an invitation-only grant application process to nonprofits administering restorative therapy for children (21 years of age or younger) diagnosed with a remedial disability, from low-income families.
Grants are limited to services provided to residents of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, San Francisco County, and San Mateo County.
Note: The Foundation does not make grants for individual youth and for-profit providers. Additionally, we do not fund dental, orthodontia, eyeglasses or routine eye-care, annual appeals, capital requests, conferences, or events
Ruth Wisnom (pictured) continued her and her husband’s many years of dedicated service to the Avery-Fuller-Welch Children’s Foundation. The honorary grant in their name serves as a legacy to their long-term commitment to helping children thrive.
David and Ruth Wisnom Grant
The Avery-Fuller-Welch Children’s Foundation issues special grants in honor of long-time board members David and Ruth Wisnom, both of whom led the foundation as Board President for many years.
The David and Ruth Wisnom grant is made directly to a non-profit that is serving children/youth who exhibits extremely high needs in any of AFW’s five program areas.
The board selects the David and Ruth Wisnom grant from amongst the invited grant applications.
