· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEEN ESTEEM | $58,345 |
| AGAPE VILLAGES FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY | $28,000 |
| DOWN SYMDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA | $28,000 |
| LIVERMORE VALLEY ARTS | $23,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE CA-ALAMEDA CHAPTER | $12,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TRACY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY3× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +378%
- QSQUEST SCIENCE CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $149k · revenue +26%
- GMGeorge Mark Childrens Fund2× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- FWFostering Wishesgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $82k · revenue +56% · 51% of their budget
- OHOPEN HEART KITCHENone grant, 2023 · $74k
- SESONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +53%
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.
Camp Revolution provides a safe, fun and motivational overnight outdoor camping experience for differently-abled teens and adults. Our goal is to empower each camper with confidence, boost self-esteem, experience outdoor adventures and…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Easterseals northern california (esnorcal) is creating a more equitable world so people with developmental disabilities can choose their path. we do this by reimagining how care and support can be better connected to fill gaps in human…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Provide advocacy for children with developmental disabilities and parent support. our services include a social recreation program, an inclusive sports program, career opportunities for adults and early intervention for babies 0-4 years old
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quest Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 THE WENTE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR ARTS EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY ↗
- Who funds QUEST SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds Fostering Wishes ↗
- Who funds Teen Esteem ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALICO CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Agape Villages Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds REINS IN MOTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KIDS BIKE LANE ↗
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.
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
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 Livermore Valley Winegrowers 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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