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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.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$87kYouth Development$52kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $202,344, the rows itemized in this filing. The $235,556 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,212 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ArtSmart: $75k → 22%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - ST HELENA: $20k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY HALL: $25k → 10%Los Angeles Virtuosi: $20k → 14%Food for Soul Inc: $30k → 14%YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $6k → 17%ArtSmart: $55k → 22%Arts Council Napa Valley: $115k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $10k → 10%LOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $40k → 14%ArtSmart: $50k → 22%Napa Valley Education Foundation: $102k → 9%The San Francisco Foundation: $25k → 10%Los Angeles Virtuosi: $20k → 14%ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY: $100k → 9%Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra Inc: $10k → 14%Napa Valley Education Foundation: $55k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - NAPA VALL: $20k → 9%Napa Valley Education Foundation: $20k → 9%Arts Council Napa Valley: $16k → 9%Napa Valley Education Foundation: $15k → 9%Arts Council Napa Valley: $14k → 9%Napa Valley College District Auxiliary Services: $12k → 9%NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE: $11k → 9%Arts Council Napa Valley: $10k → 9%Salvador Elementary: $10k → 9%Napa Valley Education Foundation: $10k → 9%Arts Council Napa Valley: $10k → 9%Napa High School Choral Boosters: $9k → 9%Boys & Girls Club of Napa Valley: $2k → 9%River School: $2k → 9%American Canyon High School Alliance: $6k → 9%LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%Napa County Office of Education: $50k → 9%LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%Napa Valley College: $10k → 9%Lincoln Theater Foundation: $25k → 9%Napa Valley Regional Dance: $2k → 9%LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION: $17k → 9%Napa Valley Music Associates: $250 → 9%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • A
    ARTSMART
    5× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +350%
  • NV
    NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue ×20
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +325% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • NV
    Napa Valley Unif School Dist
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FF
    FOOD FOR SOUL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +22%
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
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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2
The Pasadena Symphony Association

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Chamber Music in Napa Valley

The mission of Chamber Music in Napa Valley is to provide world-class chamber music for local residents of the Napa Valley.

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4
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Northern California Childrens Chorus

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Sacramento Youth Symphony

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Nevada City School of the Arts

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.

Education
8
California Youth Symphony Association

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…

Arts & Culture
9
San Jose Chamber Music Society

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…

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10
California Bach Society Inc

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…

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11
Music in the Vineyards Inc

To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.

Arts & Culture
12
Menlo School

Menlo school's mission is to empower students to explore and expand their interests, reach their fullest potential, develop the skills necessary for success in college, and become ethical, responsible, and engaged members of ever wider…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Napa Valley College Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY: $265,044 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEYARTSMART: $240,000 · Arts & CultureARTSMARTFRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION: $136,576 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATIONLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INCSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNapa Valley Youth Symphony: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $201,800 · OtherNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDA…Napa Valley Unif School Dist: $50,000 · OtherNapa Valley Unif School DistBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $21,500 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS &…NAPA VALLEY DISTRICT AUXILIARY SERVICES: $12,000 · Other+5 more: $23,250 · Other+5 moreTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $21,059 · EducationNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS: $9,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANYON HS ALLIANCE: $6,000 · EducationFOOD FOR SOUL INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$800,120Other$308,550Education$36,059Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY: $265,044 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetARTSMART: $240,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $201,800 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION: $136,576 over 4y, 33% of budgetLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $90,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR SOUL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNapa Valley Youth Symphony: $27,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $21,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $21,059 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAPA VALLEY DISTRICT AUXILIARY SERVICES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS: $9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPA VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATES: $250 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Napa Valley PresentsNapa Valley Vintners …Peter a & Vernice H G…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the Napa ValleyCA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Napa Valley Festival Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Napa Valley Festival Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 22 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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