· Private foundation
Napa Valley Performing Arts Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $250k+1 grant · $964k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAPA VALLEY PRESENTS | $964,459 |
| NAPA VALLEY PRESENTS | $3,673 |
| NAPA VALLEY PRESENTS | $526 |
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 (FY17–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +54% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NVNAPA VALLEY PRESENTS2× · 2023–2024 · $996k · revenue +932% · 75% of their budget
- MIMusic in the Vineyards Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +58%
- NVNapa Valley Youth Symphony2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LPLUCKY PENNY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +8%
- NVNAPA VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2018 · $12k
- FOFRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
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.
Napa Valley Music Associates was founded in 1990 and incorporated as a California non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation in 1991. Since then, we have enriched the Napa community and the greater San Francisco Bay Area with unique…
The presentation of symphonic and chamber music
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
Providing an annual series of chamber music concerts for audiences in Berkeley and Lafayette, California, for the past 33 years.
Noe Valley Chamber Music (d.b.a. Noe Music) is a non-profit organization founded in 1992. Based in an intimate neighborhood setting in the heart of San Francisco, Noe Music combines world-class live performances with interactive education…
Present classical music concerts to advance the arts.
The Palo Alto Philharmonic Association (PAPA) exists to promote and enhance appreciation of orchestral and chamber music for audiences of all ages, and to provide musicians in the Bay Area with the opportunity to perform and develop their…
Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…
New Vintage Baroque Inc's purpose is to enrich the cultural experience of the Lost Sierra with world-class, year-round performances and music education, accessible and affordable for all.
Music in Place connects people and communities through music while curating high-quality experiences and supporting artists who create them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Napa Valley Youth Symphony and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Penny Productions Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 NAPA VALLEY PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds Music in the Vineyards Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY JAZZ SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Youth Symphony ↗
- Who funds LUCKY PENNY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LINCOLN THEATER DBA LINCOLN THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE BARN ↗
- Who funds ASE GLOBAL BRIDGES INC ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Performing Arts 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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