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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$155k
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.

Education$6.6MYouth Development$317kHealth$207kArts & Culture$100kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$9k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $517,224, the rows itemized in this filing. The $661,997 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $144,773 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $384k
$43,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Sonoma 4CS: $10k → 9%Grupo Folklrico Quetzaln: $15k → 9%Grupo Folklrico Quetzaln: $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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 8 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$7.2M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+66%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $280k · revenue +51%
  • HF
    HOALA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $68k · revenue +32% · 37% of their budget
  • SI
    Sonoma Immigrant Services Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SC
    SONOMA CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDRAISINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +276%
  • CC
    Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • SE
    Sonoma Ecology Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +66%
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 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.

Philanthropy
3
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
4
Sonoma Preschool Academy

preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.

Education
5
Health Careers Scholarships of Sonoma County

To award scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in support of medical education.

—
6
South Sutter Charter School

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.

Education
7
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
8
Sonoma Earth School

To Educate Through Nature

Arts & Culture
9
Montessori School of Sonoma Incorporated

To operate a licenced Montessori School for students 12 months to 10 years old.

—
10
San Francisco High School of the Arts

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…

Education
11
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
12
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sonoma Valley Unified School: $6,364,204 · OtherSonoma Valley Unified School+3 more: $347,440 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY: $280,479 · Youth DevelopmentDONORSCHOOSEORG: $75,000 · EducationHOALA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $68,000 · EducationSONOMA CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDRAISING: $28,917 · EducationSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $6,333 · EducationSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $43,000 · Community ImprovementSonoma Immigrant Services Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $10,000 · Human ServicesVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSonoma Ecology Center: $8,650 · Environment
Other$6,711,644Youth Development$280,479Education$178,250Community Improvement$43,000Human Services$35,000Arts & Culture$30,000Environment$8,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY: $280,479 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOALA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $68,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSonoma Immigrant Services Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center: $8,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $6,333 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Women Giving as One I…Sonoma County Vintner…Bothin FoundationMcNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…Sonoma Valley Vintner…The Vadasz Family Fou…Khr McNeely Family Fo…Speedway Children's C…The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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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