By fostering resilience among youth, our work strengthens families, communities, and our collective wellbeing.

By fostering resilience among youth, our work strengthens families, communities, and our collective wellbeing.

Funding PRIORITIES

The Sarlo Family Foundation primarily supports organizations based in and/or serving the San Francisco Bay Area. We are also open to opportunities informing and driving change at the regional, state, and national level. We prioritize support to organizations that:

Are youth-led and/or youth-informed

Take a whole-child, connection-based approach

Represent and have deep, demonstrated understanding of the communities they serve

Focus on systemic improvement and multi-sector approaches

Are working upstream with the goal of prevention & early intervention

Have strong, flexible, goal-oriented leadership

funding areas

In partnership with our grantees, we are always evolving our giving strategy to respond to the needs of the communities we serve. We currently fund in four interconnected areas:

The Sarlo Family Foundation partners with a range of grantees—big and small, upstart and longstanding—all working to advance youth wellbeing.