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United Way of the Wine Country

The mission of the UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY is to improve financial stability for all families throughout our service area by activating local businesses, inspiring individual investment, advancing community collaboratives, and influencing public policy.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.6MHuman Services$2.1MHealth$303kHousing & Shelter$187kCommunity Improvement$157kEducation$155kCivil Rights$150kFood & Nutrition$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$19,036
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES (NCO)$50,000
SONOMA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK (CAP)$29,270
NUESTRA ALLIANZA DE WILLITS$21,670
RED LATINX THE HUB$19,036
REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$18,629
RIVER TO COAST CHILDREN SERVICES$11,682
LA LUZ CENTER$9,459
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE$9,417
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Up Valley Centers of Napa Valley: $23k → 9%Lutheran Social Services (as fiscal agent for ROC Sonoma): $635k → 9%Human Response Network: $20k → 17%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $11k → 8%Lutheran Social Services (as fiscal agent for ROC Sonoma): $156k → 9%211 Humboldt: $29k → 18%Petaluma People Services Center: $10k → 8%North Coast Opportunities: $193k → 18%211 Humboldt: $25k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $82k → 18%211 Humboldt: $25k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $60k → 18%REDWOOD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $19k → 18%Community Childcare Council of Sonoma County: $73k → 9%North Coast Opportunities: $59k → 18%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES (NCO): $50k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $47k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $45k → 18%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES: $40k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $39k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $30k → 18%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $28k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $27k → 18%NUESTRA ALLIANZA DE WILLITS: $22k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $20k → 18%Nuestra Allianza De Willits: $21k → 18%North Coast Opportunities: $15k → 18%NUESTRA ALLIANZA DE WILLITS: $21k → 18%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $17k → 18%Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $10k → 9%Disability Services & Legal Center: $10k → 9%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $16k → 18%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $13k → 18%Generation Housing: $20k → 9%TLC Child & Family Services: $10k → 9%La Luz Center: $35k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $9k → 9%Corazon Healdsburg: $185k → 9%Corazon Healdsburg: $28k → 9%Corazon Healdsburg: $28k → 9%Extended Childcare: $200k → 9%Catholic Charities: $181k → 9%Catholic Charities: $175k → 9%Catholic Charities: $33k → 9%Catholic Charities: $20k → 9%California Human Development: $15k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa: $10k → 9%Individuals Now Inc DBA 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 29 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
65

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+35%

Still filing today

72%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthFood & 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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $812k · revenue +55%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $791k · revenue +53%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $715k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • RN
    REBUILD NORTH BAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +916%
  • EC
    Extended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • HC
    HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue +107%
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
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
2
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
6
La Cooperativa Campesina de California

Improve the lives of California's farmworkers, their families, and rural communities through advocacy and service.

Housing & Shelter
7
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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8
Statewide California Coalition

The New California Coalition (NCC) is a forward-thinking organization with a bold mission: to identify and implement solutions that will pave the way for enduring, generational change in Sacramento and across the entire state of California.

Public Benefit
9
North Bay Developmental Disabilities Services Inc

The purpose of North Bay Regional Center (The "Center") is to assist people with developmental disabilities or at risk for developmental disabilities in the North Bay Area to obtain services and support they need to live as other people…

Human Services
10
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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Opportunities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake County Economic Development Corporation. 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

62 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. 62 of the 98 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $791,192 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIACATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $715,028 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSANORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC: $711,253 · Human ServicesNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INCSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $251,710 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURGExtended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County: $200,000 · Human ServicesExtended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma CountyNUESTRA ALIANZA DE WILLITS: $137,087 · Human Services+15 more: $543,112 · Human Services+15 moreSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS: $457,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLSVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY: $190,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOM…WEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $93,000 · OtherWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SER…NEXO MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $57,106 · OtherOur Lady of Guadalupe Church: $51,958 · Other+52 more: $693,121 · Other+52 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $811,992 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION…North Bay Organizing Project: $162,427 · Community ImprovementNorth Bay Organi…+3 more: $41,600 · Community ImprovementREBUILD NORTH BAY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $152,150 · Public Safety & DisasterSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNorthern California Center For Well-Being: $168,310 · HealthPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center: $21,000 · HealthFACE TO FACE SONOMA COUNTY AIDS NETWORK: $18,550 · Health+1 more: $2,124 · HealthHOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN: $175,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $24,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyDaily Acts Organization: $24,915 · EnvironmentLandPaths: $22,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUST: $20,585 · EnvironmentLarkfield Resilience Fund Inc: $15,000 · Environment
Human Services$3,349,382Other$1,542,185Community Improvement$1,016,019Public Safety & Disaster$477,150Health$209,984Philanthropy$205,500Environment$82,500

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 budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $811,992 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $791,192 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $715,028 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC: $711,253 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $251,710 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetExtended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County: $200,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY: $190,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN: $175,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNorthern California Center For Well-Being: $168,310 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $162,427 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $152,150 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNUESTRA ALIANZA DE WILLITS: $137,087 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $93,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHUMBOLDT COMMUNITY ACCESS AND RESOURCE CENTER: $90,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $82,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budget2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center: $67,231 over 3y, 15% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER: $66,941 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $57,611 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRIVER TO COAST CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $46,858 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLATINO SERVICE PROVIDERS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $24,915 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROUND VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $24,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetUnited Way of Nevada County: $24,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYuba-Sutter-Colusa United Way: $24,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetUPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $23,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTLC Child and Family Services: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLandPaths: $22,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center: $21,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $20,585 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESER Capital Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHUMAN RESPONSE NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $19,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetFACE TO FACE SONOMA COUNTY AIDS NETWORK: $18,550 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetON THE MOVE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE IMAGES: $15,138 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetLarkfield Resilience Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE HARWOOD MEMORIAL PARK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS CIEN SONOMA COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 1y, 9.4% 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…Sonoma County Vintner…McNabb FoundationRedwood Credit Union …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Peter E Haas Jr Famil…The Heck FoundationCalifornia Fire Found…Latino Community Foun…Healthcare Foundation…The San Francisco Fou…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA92.5× affinity46 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 · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · The Heck Foundation · California Fire Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County · The San Francisco 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 United Way of the Wine Country funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Wine Country. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    25report 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
    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 98 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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