· 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.
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 10 grants below total $517,224 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $661,997 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,773 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sonoma Valley Family Therapy | $154,580 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Sonoma Valley | $100,805 |
| Sonoma Valley Unified School District | $68,877 |
| Awakening Wisdom | $60,000 |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $43,000 |
| VIVO Youth Orchestras | $30,000 |
| Donors Choose | $25,000 |
| Sonoma Valley High School | $18,629 |
| Grupo Folklrico Quetzaln | $10,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring | $6,333 |
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 (FY24–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY3× · 2023–2025 · $280k · revenue +51%
- HFHOALA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION2× · 2024–2025 · $68k · revenue +32% · 37% of their budget
- SISonoma Immigrant Services Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SCSONOMA CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDRAISINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +276%
- CCCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma Countyone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
- SESonoma Ecology Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +66%
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 Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.
preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.
To award scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in support of medical education.
South sutter charter school is an independent study charter school that provides a voluntary public educational choice for families of students who choose to educate their children in the home environment.
To Educate Through Nature
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
To operate a licenced Montessori School for students 12 months to 10 years old.
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,…
Svyca empowers teens and young adults to combat climate change immediately through impactful education and policy initiatives. our youth work in focused climate action teams to ensure important climate policies and measures receive support…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Vivo Youth Orchestras. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds HOALA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds SONOMA CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDRAISING ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Immigrant Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance ↗
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: 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
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 Sonoma Valley Education 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.