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Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for underserved local children by raising funds for organizations that meet basic needs and provide access to education and enrichment.

$160k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$28,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$58,345
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$33k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentScience & TechHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$160k67%
FY20234$239k75%
FY20224$275k50%
FY20214$196k75%
FY20193$149k33%
FY20183$158k67%
FY20174$138kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$375kHuman Services$219kYouth Development$192kHealth$183kScience & Tech$149kFood & Nutrition$109kCrime & Legal$40kEducation$36kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wente Family Foundation for Arts Education$351,675461%
Boys and Girls Club of Tracy$150,00034%
Quest Science Center$148,500213%
George Mark Childrens Fund$90,00021%
Fostering Wishes$82,450151%
Open Heart Kitchen$73,5001n/a
Teen Esteem$58,34518%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$42,50020%
Sonrise Equestrian Foundation$40,250122%
Calico Center$40,00011%
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All grantees of Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wente Family Foundation for Arts Education$351,675461%
Boys and Girls Club of Tracy$150,00034%
Quest Science Center$148,500213%
George Mark Childrens Fund$90,00021%
Fostering Wishes$82,450151%
Open Heart Kitchen$73,5001n/a
Teen Esteem$58,34518%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$42,50020%
Sonrise Equestrian Foundation$40,250122%
Calico Center$40,00011%
De la Salle High School of Concord Inc$35,7501n/a
Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore Inc$35,00013%
Camp Phoenix$32,200210%
Agape Villages Inc$28,00011%
Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area$28,00012%
Reins in Motion Foundation$25,000117%
Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center$23,00011%
Exceptional Needs Network$20,000170%
Kids Bike Lane$10,000113%

Where it is load-bearing

Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Wente Family Foundation for Arts Education: $351,675 over 4y, 61% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Tracy: $150,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetQuest Science Center: $148,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFostering Wishes: $82,450 over 1y, 51% of budgetTeen Esteem: $58,345 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSonrise Equestrian Foundation: $40,250 over 1y, 22% of budgetCalico Center: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpen Heart Kitchen of Livermore Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCamp Phoenix: $32,200 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetAgape Villages Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDown Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area: $28,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetReins in Motion Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLivermore Valley Performing Arts Center: $23,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetExceptional Needs Network: $20,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetKids Bike Lane: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rotarian Foundation of LivermoreCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rotarian Foundation of Livermore · Lowell Berry Foundation · Priem Family Foundation · Community Health & Education Foundation · Armanino Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation 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.

About Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation

How much does Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation give?
Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $159,845 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Wente Family Foundation for Arts Education ($352k), Boys and Girls Club of Tracy ($150k), Quest Science Center ($149k).
Does Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rotarian Foundation of Livermore, Lowell Berry Foundation, Priem Family Foundation.
Where is Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation based?
Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation is based in CA.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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