· Private foundation
Avery-Fuller-Welch Childrens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNUP CENTERS | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,500 |
| LEARNUP CENTERS | $37,450 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $34,637 |
| LINDAMOOD-BELL LEARNING PROCESSES | $9,882 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LCLearnup Centers8× · 2018–2025 · $547k · revenue +440%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO9× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +57%
- ARACTIVE READING CLINIC4× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GHGrateful Heart Holistic Therapy Centerone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -11%
- FAFairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +116%
- AIACCESS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SVCSone grant, 2018 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…
The Children's Center is committed to helping children of all backgrounds grow into enthusiastic, kind and confident learners by providing a broad curriculum designed to enhance their social, physical and cognitive development. The…
It is the mission of Sargent Rehabilitation Center to rehabilitate children and young adults with disabilities for maximum community access to education daily living and employment.
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
Golden gate regional center, inc. (the center) is a not-for-profit corporation chartered by the state of california. the center administers programs for developmentally disabled persons and their families, which include diagnosis,…
The organization empowers familities and improves children's lives through comprehensive early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services. the organization primarily offers services to children from birth to three years…
The center for early childhood connections advances the mental health and wellbeing of young children in the bay area.
To assist the development of autistic and other neurodevelopmentally delayed children toward a happy and productive future where their maximum potential can be realized.
Pre-school for children with developmental delays, ages 2.9 to 5. the school provides comprehensive educational and therapeutic services according to a school district approved iep. services will enhance the development of speech and…
To provide preschool and therapy services.
C5 children's school is a school in san francisco, california, where educators work alongside to facilitate young children's optimal development and learning in a safe, supportive, and enriched environment. our primary goal is to provide…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Martin Center and the most unlike its peers is Learnup Centers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Learnup Centers ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds ANN MARTIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE READING CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR EQUINE FACILITATED THERAPY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center ↗
- Who funds Fairfax-San Anselmo Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Avery-Fuller-Welch Childrens Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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