· Public charity
American Vineyard Foundation
A leader in maintaining industry progress, the AMERICAN VINEYARD FOUNDATION (avf), provides the unique opportunity to unify the grape and wine industries through collaborative research efforts.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
- $250k+1 grant · $622k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC REGENTS DAVIS | $622,216 |
| US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | $165,400 |
| CSU FRESNO FOUNDATION | $149,025 |
| UC REGENTS RIVERSIDE | $82,545 |
| UC REGENTS - BERKELEY | $69,900 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $48,310 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,995 |
| NATIONAL GRAPE & WINE INTITIATIVE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS10× · 2017–2026 · $7.5M
- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $1.4M · revenue +109%
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2026 · $48k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2026 · $22k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Vineyard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Vineyard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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