· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $202,344 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,556 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,212 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Napa Valley Education Foundation | $101,800 |
| ArtSmart | $50,000 |
| Arts Council Napa Valley | $16,044 |
| Napa Valley College District Auxiliary Services | $12,000 |
| Napa High School Choral Boosters | $9,000 |
| Napa Valley Youth Symphony | $7,500 |
| American Canyon High School Alliance | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +119% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- AARTSMART5× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +350%
- NVNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue ×20
- LALOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +325% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- NVNapa Valley Unif School Distone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FFFOOD FOR SOUL INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +22%
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.
The mission of the pasadena symphony association (psa) is to provide musical concerts of the highest quality raning from orchestral performances to world-renowned artists in recital, and to provide the broadest access to youth education…
The mission of Chamber Music in Napa Valley is to provide world-class chamber music for local residents of the Napa Valley.
The mission of the santa barbara symphony is to enrich the lives of santa barbara residents by producing the highest-quality musical experiences, accessible to the entire community, and to inspire a passion for symphonic music in the next…
NCCC is a choral music education program for 68 boys and girls, grades K-12 to train boys and girls to be singers, to read music and to be confident performers. Singers perform at concerts produced by our organization and at performances…
Across a broad demographic spectrum of youth, we seek to cultivate musical talent, promote love for music, and advance a sense of unity, and increase capacity for a lifetime of success.
The mission of the nevada city school of the arts is to nurture and inspire academic excellence through the arts for children in transitional kindergarten through the 8th grade.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
The mission of the California Youth Symphony (CYS) is to serve the community while providing talented young musicians with the finest musical experience and the opportunity for personal growth through the training and performance of…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.
To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Napa Valley College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Canyon Hs Alliance. 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 22 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 ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARTSMART ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Youth Symphony ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY DISTRICT AUXILIARY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANYON HS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATES ↗
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: 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
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 Napa Valley Festival Association 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.