California · Nonprofit
ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY
ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,982,763 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $279k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $112k
What Arts Council Napa Valley does
Mission
Arts Council Napa Valley provides leadership that unites, supports, and enhances our exceptional arts and culture community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Fund Grant With support from a $90k/year re-upped grant for 3-years from Hewlett Foundation and roll-over from a previous grant term, ACNV provided $45k to individual artists and small nonprofits for community projects in fiscal year 2024-2025. These awards provided funds to increase access to underserved community groups and/or presenting in public spaces and reflect diverse artistic genres, disciplines and audiences - with the range of funded programs including those centered in musical and live theater performances, visual and performing arts workshops, artist gallery exhibitions, amplifying Latine culture and filmmaking, connection between the culinary and ceramic arts, exploration of waste recycling as an art form, spotlighting local visual and performing student artists, and engaging with important global events through an artistic lens. Theater. These programs support ACNV's vision of enriching our community through arts and culture by creating greater access, engagement and culturally relevant opportunities for locals.
$68,008 spentof which $42,150 as grants30% of program spendingACNV Education Alliance This Alliance of educators, teaching artists, arts administrators, philanthropists, and community members are collaborating to support students through their school district(s). The Alliance currently serves over 90% of public school students in Napa County through our relationship with the Napa Valley Unified School District and the support of its Arts Education Master Plan. Outside of the relationship with the NVUSD, ACNV's Education Alliance partners for and runs several programs with the goal to equitably support and advance quality sequential arts education for all public school students TK-12. The associated programs and goals achieved in the 2024-25 fiscal year are as follows: - The VAPA (Visual & Performing Arts) Student of the Month Program honors exemplary students in all creative arts disciplines on a monthly basis and culminates with a Scholarship Awards Ceremony in the spring. Over $19,000 in scholarships were awarded to our VAPA Art Students of the Year for the 2024-25 term. - One VAPA educator in Napa County was provided with a $1,000 grant to supplement their classroom materials at the VAPA Student of the Year celebration.
$69,682 spent31% of program spendingIndustry Services ACNV offers accessible, affordable services and professional development for the local arts and culture community. Key activities in this program include trainings, networking events, and online tools and resources. ACNV had over 120 community meetings assisting educators, artists, students, and community groups. ACNV also extends its countywide reach with its flagship website, eblasts, and social media campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Content includes presenting information about who we are and what ACNV does for the community, diverse cultural and arts events, town halls, opportunities to be involved, industry news, and promotion of local artists. ACNV has 8,981 combined subscribers (newsletter: 2,169 subscribers, Facebook: 5,369 followers over 2 pages, and Instagram: 2,061 followers).
$80,584 spent36% of program spendingPoetry Out Loud Sponsored an annual national poetry recitation contest.
$4,440 spent2% of program spendingCreative Directory The Creative Directory is a searchable database of everyone in Napa County who is a part of the vibrant fabric of our creative industries. The beta of the directory was launched in January of 2019 and was officially launched to the public at the end of July 2019. This directory hosts artists and organizations alike, allowing hirers to both find creatives to hire on for their needs and to show their support of local artists through the use of hiring badges on creative profiles. The Creative Directory also serves a hub where creatives can find job listings, artist calls, professional and grant opportunities to apply for. The Creative Directory also hosts the only comprehensive arts & culture events calendar in Napa County. The directory currently hosts 236 local artists, 109 organizations, and 111 venues.
$285 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,999.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $240k to $514k (+115%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 42% · 2022 15% · 2023 45% · 2024 50% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christopher DeNatale
CEO/President
Board chair
Andy Starr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $256k → $126k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 68% · 2019 46% · 2020 94% · 2021 97% · 2022 54% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY's revenue fell 27% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY?
- ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,982,763 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,982,763 in grants to ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS COUNCIL NAPA VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing