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Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation

To raise money for sonoma county charities through wine related activities that are within the expertise of vintners and growers.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$1.5MPhilanthropy$290kFood & Nutrition$140kHuman Services$120kEducation$60kEnvironment$35kHealth$30kArts & Culture$20kYouth Development$20kOther$775k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $81,174 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,174 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.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$211k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONOMA VALLEY COMMUNIT$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CNTR: $10k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%TLC CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE COUNCIL: $10k → 9%CONSERVATION CORPS NB: $10k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $10k → 9%NORTH SO CTY SERVICES: $10k → 9%CLOVERDALE COMM OUTREACH: $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

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.

03Your field

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.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
4
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
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 Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy
8
Symons Family Fund

The Mission of the Symons Family Fund is to benefit, perform the functions of, and carry out the purposes of the Sonora Area Foundation that engage in charitable activities which benefit the residents of Tuolumne County, California.

Human Services
9
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.

Human Services
10
Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Sonoma County Conservation Action

Sonoma County Conservation Action's mission is to better our quality of life in Sonoma County for all generations, through educating and directly engaging the public on local environmental issues and policies using grassroots organizing.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Valley Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is North Bay Makers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr22%27%20–35yr15%41%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%63%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr22%11%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 63% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/57
the rest of the field
10%
257/2,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION+1 more — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $500,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS ASSOCIAT…+27 more — $294,666 · Other+27 moreUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY — $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…Sonoma Valley Education Foundation — $30,000 · PhilanthropySonoma Val…THE SCHOOL GARDEN NETWORK FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropySonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $120,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN LINK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesTLC Child and Family Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesFriends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesBY THE BAY HEALTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesForget Me Not Childrens Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $10,000 · Human ServicesPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesCLOVERDALE COMMUNITY OUTREACH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Human ServicesREACH FOR HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $10,000 · EducationLITERACYWORKS — $10,000 · EducationSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $10,000 · Education10000 DEGREES — $10,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSonoma Ecology Center — $19,000 · EnvironmentCalifornia Native Plant Society — $10,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$1,530,000Other$844,666Philanthropy$290,000Food & Nutrition$140,000Human Services$120,000Education$60,000Environment$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY — $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $120,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $19,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION — $16,666 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCinnabar Arts Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH BAY MAKERS — $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTLC Child and Family Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACYWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SONOMA LIBRARY — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWomens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSonoma County Childrens Village — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDemeo Teen Club Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW WAYS TO WORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget10000 DEGREES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Jewish Community Free Clinic — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORTH OUR WEIGHT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVERDALE COMMUNITY OUTREACH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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.

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.

Sonoma County Communi…Sonoma County Vintner…McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Redwood Credit Union …Speedway Children's C…The Heck FoundationWomen Giving as One I…Exchange Bank Foundat…Simon Blattner Family…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA81× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Heck Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Exchange Bank Foundation · Simon Blattner Family 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 Vintners & Growers 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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