California · Public charity
Napa Valley Festival Association
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION offers programs that enrich the economic and cultural vitality of the region and make the arts accessible to all. The association presents performances at iconic napa valley venues and inspiring educational programs year-round.
- $236k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $202k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Napa Valley Festival Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $202k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $194k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $112k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $220k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts Council Napa Valley | $265,044 | 6 | 6% |
| Artsmart | $240,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Napa Valley Education Foundation | $201,800 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of Lincoln Theater Dba Lincoln Theater Foundation | $136,576 | 4 | 33% |
| Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Napa Valley Unif School Dist | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Symphony | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food for Soul Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Napa Valley Youth Symphony | $27,500 | 2 | 11% |
| Boys Club of Napa Inc Boys & Girls Club of Napa Valley | $21,500 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts Council Napa Valley | $265,044 | 6 | 6% |
| Artsmart | $240,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Napa Valley Education Foundation | $201,800 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of Lincoln Theater Dba Lincoln Theater Foundation | $136,576 | 4 | 33% |
| Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Napa Valley Unif School Dist | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Symphony | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food for Soul Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Napa Valley Youth Symphony | $27,500 | 2 | 11% |
| Boys Club of Napa Inc Boys & Girls Club of Napa Valley | $21,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Napa Valley College Foundation | $21,059 | 2 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of St Helena and Calistoga Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Napa Valley District Auxiliary Services | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Napa High Choral Boosters | $9,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American Canyon Hs Alliance | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Concert Artists Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Napa Valley Music Associates | $250 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Napa Valley Festival Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Napa Valley Presents · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Napa Valley Festival Association
- How much does Napa Valley Festival Association give?
- Napa Valley Festival Association reported 7 itemized grants totaling $202,344, out of $235,556 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Napa Valley Festival Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Education (7%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Napa Valley Festival Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arts Council Napa Valley ($265k), Artsmart ($240k), Napa Valley Education Foundation ($202k).
- Does Napa Valley Festival Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Napa Valley Festival Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Napa Valley, Napa Valley Presents, Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund.
- Where is Napa Valley Festival Association based?
- Napa Valley Festival Association is based in CA.
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