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Lake County Wine Alliance

To provide financial support to charitable organizations that foster the arts, healthcare, senior services, and that otherwise engage in charitable activities in lake county, california.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$330kHealth$234kHuman Services$159kEducation$72kRecreation & Sports$48kFood & Nutrition$17kCrime & Legal$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $112,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $173,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KELSEYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$13,750
CLEARLAKE HIGH SCHOOL$12,050
MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL$11,800
UPPER LAKE HIGH SCHOOL$11,800
LOWERLAKE HIGH SCHOOL$11,800
LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$11,500
VISION OF HOPE VILLAGE$6,500
MIDDLETOWN MOUNTAIN BIKE TEAM$6,500
SECOND WIND PROJECT$6,000
LAKE COUNTY RURAL ARTS$5,200
Individual grant recipient$5,200
WOODLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,200
JACKS LAVENDER FARM$5,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $24k → 17%MOTHER WISE: $13k → 17%LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 17%LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 17%MOTHER WISE: $7k → 17%LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $7k → 17%LAKE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 17%MIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 17%OPERATION TANGO MIKE: $13k → 17%OPERATION TANGO MIKE: $10k → 17%OPERATION TANGO MIKE: $8k → 17%OPERATION TANGO MIKE: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$854k · 22 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$854k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
0%

Still filing today

27%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Lake Family Resource Center
    5× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +28%
  • OT
    OPERATION TANGO MIKE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +37%
  • M
    MOTHER-WISE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY SHERIFFS ACTIVITY
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • ML
    MENDOCINO LAKE 4-H CAMP
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lake County Senior Citizens Association

To Provide Services, Energy, Assistance, and Meals on Wheels to local Seniors and other low income individuals in need.

Human Services
2
Lake Area Helping Hands Inc

Homeless shelter

Housing & Shelter
3
Lakeshore Community Pantry

Food pantry and clothing closet

Food & Nutrition
4
One Step At a Time Lake County
Human Services
5
Wheatland County Senior Citizens Center

Providing care and services for senior citizens.

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6
Lakeview Shepherd Center

Daily activity center for the aging.

Human Services
7
Lake County Area Churches Charities

Provide low cost, fresh & frozen foodfor

Food & Nutrition
8
Laker Transportation Project Inc

To provide transportation services to the senior population within the skaneateles school district.

Human Services
9
Lakewood Meals On Wheels

Home delivered meals to shut-ins

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10
Glenn County Senior Centers

Provide Senior Citizens daily activity programs and nutrition. A thrift shop is operated to partially support the activities.

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11
Lake County United Inc

Promotion of social welfare

Civil Rights
12
Lake Region Senior Service Inc

Provide transportation to medical appointments for senior or disabled citizens and cancer patients.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeport Senior Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Konocti Christian Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KELSEYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $88,900 · OtherKELSEYVILLE HIGH SCHOOLUPPER LAKE HIGH SCHOOL: $84,450 · OtherUPPER LAKE HIGH SCHOOLMIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL: $84,450 · OtherMIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOLLOWERLAKE HIGH SCHOOL: $84,450 · OtherLOWERLAKE HIGH SCHOOLCLEARLAKE HIGH SCHOOL: $77,950 · OtherCLEARLAKE HIGH SCHOOLPEOPLE SERVICES INC: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherHOSPICE SERVICES: $27,000 · Other+21 more: $280,800 · Other+21 moreLake Family Resource Center: $57,000 · Human ServicesLake Family R…OPERATION TANGO MIKE: $38,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION TAN…MOTHER-WISE: $20,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER-WISEMIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLETOWN SE…WORLDWIDE HEALING HANDS: $30,500 · InternationalLAKE COUNTY CHANNEL CATS: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsGIVE BACK TRACK INC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsKONOCTI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationVISION OF HOPE VILLAGE: $6,500 · Public BenefitLAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$792,500Human Services$122,000International$30,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Education$10,000Public Benefit$6,500Arts & Culture$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Family Resource Center: $57,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION TANGO MIKE: $38,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPEOPLE SERVICES INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDWIDE HEALING HANDS: $30,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetLAKEPORT SENIOR CENTER INC: $24,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CHANNEL CATS: $22,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMOTHER-WISE: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetKONOCTI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLAKE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetMIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVISION OF HOPE VILLAGE: $6,500 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $6,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Lake Family Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION TANGO MIKE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLDWIDE HEALING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds LAKEPORT SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CHANNEL CATS ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER-WISE ↗
  • Who funds KONOCTI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GIVE BACK TRACK INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLETOWN SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION OF HOPE VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lake County Wine Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake County Wine Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lake County Wine Alliance?

    Find your warmest path to Lake County Wine Alliance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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