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Sonoma County Vintners Foundation

SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION conducts and supports education programs related to the wine industry.

$473k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$545kEducation$428kHealth$406kArts & Culture$400kFood & Nutrition$320kHousing & Shelter$270kEnvironment$223kEmployment$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CULINARY INSTITUE OF AMERICA$42,530
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB OF HEALDSBURG$15,000
SOMMFOUNDATION$15,000
BOTANICAL BUS$10,000
HOMEFIRST$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC OF SONOMA COUNTY$10,000
WAVES OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION$10,000
YWCA OF SONOMA COUNTY$10,000
NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC$10,000
BUCKELEW PROGRAMS$10,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$10,000
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$10,000
SIDE BY SIDE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES DBA LILLIPUT FAMILIES: $10k → 12%ON THE MOVE: $10k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES DBA LILLIPUT FAMILIES: $5k → 12%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $10k → 8%OUR VILLAGE CLOSET: $10k → 9%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $10k → 8%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $10k → 8%HUMANIDAD THERAPY & EDUCATION SERVICES: $10k → 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $15k → 8%DISABILITY SERVICES AND LEGAL CENTER: $10k → 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 8%ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH HEALTH HOSPICE SERVICES: $10k → 9%CAFE PUENTE: $10k → 8%OUR VILLAGE CLOSET: $5k → 9%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC: $10k → 9%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC: $10k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $15k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $10k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $10k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $10k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $10k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $10k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $10k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $10k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE SENIOR MULTIPURPOSE CENTER OF SONOMA VALLEY: $10k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $10k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $10k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $10k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $15k → 9%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE (CPI): $15k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 9%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE (CPI): $10k → 9%CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 9%EXTENDED CHILD CARE COALITION OF SONOMA COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 79 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
55

Total granted

$2.4M
$674k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & 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

  • LB
    LUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +404%
  • FM
    Forget Me Not Childrens Services
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +23%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • CT
    Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma Countygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue +60%
  • TE
    THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +254%
  • CH
    CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -17%
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
5
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
7
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
8
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
9
Sonoma Valley Health & Recreation Association

Sonoma Valley Health and recreation Association (Sonoma Splash) is dedicated to providing a sustainable state of the art multi-use aquatic and recreation facility accessible to all Sonoma Valley residents for aquatic education and safety,…

Recreation & Sports
10
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

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11
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
12
Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County

To provide access to quality child care and early education in Sonoma County through advocacy, direct service and empowerment.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River to Coast Children's Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society. 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

133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 141 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/133
Grantees still filing
92/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $72,500 · OtherSONOMA STATE UNIVERSITYLUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS: $45,000 · OtherWomens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place: $44,181 · OtherStewards of the Coast and Redwoods: $42,500 · OtherSonoma Valley Education Foundation: $45,000 · Other+53 more: $941,250 · Other+53 moreForget Me Not Childrens Services: $45,000 · Human ServicesForget Me Not Childre…THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHR…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY P…LA LUZ CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $35,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF…California Parenting Institute: $35,000 · Human ServicesCalifornia Parenting …PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVI…REACH FOR HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $30,000 · Human ServicesSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesTLC Child and Family Services: $25,000 · Human Services+15 more: $195,000 · Human Services+15 moreCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $140,000 · EducationCareer Technical…CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $42,530 · EducationCULINARY INSTITU…SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIO…BOTANICAL BUS: $40,000 · EducationBOTANICAL BUSSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $30,000 · EducationSonoma Valley Me…NCOE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationNCOE FOUNDATIONPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationPETALUMA EDUCATI…MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationWOODLAND STAR CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationVITAL IMMIGRANT DEFENSE ADVOCACY & SERVICES: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $42,500 · Education+4 moreSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA…TRUE WEST FILM CENTER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTRUE WEST …Raizes Collective: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRaizes Col…CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA…MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $22,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …Sonoma Valley Museum of Art: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSonoma Val…LATINO SERVICE PROVIDERS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTESCAPE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCinnabar Arts Corporation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLES M SCHULZ MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTART SOCO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureSide By Side: $45,000 · HealthSide By Si…The Jewish Community Free Clinic: $40,000 · HealthThe Jewish…Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition: $35,000 · HealthAmbulatory…BUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $35,000 · HealthBUCKELEW P…COMMON GROUND SOCIETY: $35,000 · HealthCOMMON GRO…Northern California Center For Well-Being: $25,000 · HealthNorthern C…ALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,611 · HealthWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $11,250 · HealthSIYAN CLINICAL RESEARCH: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFirst Responders Resiliency: $10,000 · HealthGravenstein Health Action Coalition Inc: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,250 · HealthAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentLandPaths: $25,000 · EnvironmentSonoma Ecology Center: $25,000 · EnvironmentRussian Riverkeeper: $22,500 · EnvironmentNORTH COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $20,000 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFarm to Pantry: $25,000 · Food & NutritionWAVES OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFARM TO FIGHT HUNGER: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,242,931Human Services$605,000Education$455,030Arts & Culture$282,500Health$280,111Environment$152,500Food & Nutrition$140,000

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 budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $140,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetLUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services: $45,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSide By Side: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place: $44,181 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $42,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetStewards of the Coast and Redwoods: $42,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Jewish Community Free Clinic: $40,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOTANICAL BUS: $40,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCalifornia Poets in the Schools: $40,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Parenting Institute: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER TO COAST CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE WEST FILM CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON GROUND SOCIETY: $35,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetREACH FOR HOME: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRaizes Collective: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNCOE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEP Housing: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALDSBURG SHARED MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE IMAGES: $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFarm to Pantry: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHealdsburg Museum and Historical Society: $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationBothin FoundationRedwood Credit Union …The Heck FoundationMarin Community Found…Sonoma Valley Vintner…Kaiser Foundation Hos…United Way of the Win…Speedway Children's C…Women Giving as One I…Healthcare Foundation…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA214.2× affinity114 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · The Heck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of the Wine Country · Speedway Children's Charities · Women Giving as One Inc · Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County

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 Sonoma County Vintners Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sonoma County Vintners Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 141 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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