California · Public charity
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation
The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.
- $662k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $517k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $43,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $154,580
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Sonoma Valley Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 9 | $517k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $502k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $353k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $986k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $731k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $973k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $799k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.2M | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma Valley Unified School | $6,364,204 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley | $280,479 | 3 | 3% |
| Sonoma Valley Family Therapy | $207,390 | 2 | n/a |
| Kimzin Creative LLC | $90,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Donorschooseorg | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hoala Foundation for Education | $68,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Hanna Boys Center | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $43,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Vivo Youth Orchestras | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sonoma Charter School Fundraising | $28,917 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoma Valley Unified School | $6,364,204 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley | $280,479 | 3 | 3% |
| Sonoma Valley Family Therapy | $207,390 | 2 | n/a |
| Kimzin Creative LLC | $90,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Donorschooseorg | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hoala Foundation for Education | $68,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Hanna Boys Center | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $43,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Vivo Youth Orchestras | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sonoma Charter School Fundraising | $28,917 | 1 | n/a |
| Sonoma Immigrant Services Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonoma Ecology Center | $8,650 | 1 | 0% |
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance | $6,333 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sonoma Valley Education Foundation
- How much does Sonoma Valley Education Foundation give?
- Sonoma Valley Education Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $517,224, out of $661,997 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sonoma Valley Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Youth Development (4%), Health (3%).
- Who are Sonoma Valley Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sonoma Valley Unified School ($6.4M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley ($280k), Sonoma Valley Family Therapy ($207k).
- Does Sonoma Valley Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sonoma Valley Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, Women Giving as One Inc, Sonoma County Vintners Foundation.
- Where is Sonoma Valley Education Foundation based?
- Sonoma Valley Education Foundation is based in CA.
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