California · Nonprofit
Music in the Vineyards Inc
Music in the Vineyards Inc (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,316 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($488,925). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $880k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Music in the Vineyards Inc does
Mission
To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music in the Vineyards Annual Chamber Music Festival: 2024 was the 30th anniversary season of Music in the Vineyards, a nationally acclaimed chamber music festival held each August in the Napa Valley. We present world-class international artists-in-residence performing new and classic chamber music in unique winery spaces. We work in cooperative partnerships with the Napa Vintners Community who generously donate their spaces and wine for the concerts. This combination allows artists and audiences alike to experience the intimacy of chamber music as it was intended to be enjoyed. Our programming continues to balance traditional classical favorites works while also championing the works of underrepresented composers and contemporary pieces. The 2024 festival featured 16 concerts, including a family-friendly performance at Napa First Presbyterian, a silent film with live music, and a fund-raising Gala. In addition, there were two Music Illuminated events featuring live music with commentary. Approximately 1800 tickets were sold for ticketed concerts with approximately 2500 in attendance across all events. 47.5% of our patrons are from the Napa Valley and 29% from the surrounding Bay…
$495,512 spent$221,779 earned by the program96% of program spendingEcho in the Vineyards Music in the Vineyards Education and Community Engagement Program: As part of our mission, Music in the Vineyards is dedicated to providing musical experiences to people of all ages and walks of life. In addition to our regular festival concerts we also offer the following opportunities to engage with music here in the Napa Valley. Founded in 2018, our Fellowship String Quartet Program receives extensive mentorship and performance opportunities as well as experience with community engagement. This pre-professional ensemble offers interactive performances in retirement communities; Boys and Girls Clubs; workshops with Napa's high school music students; and free performances in public spaces. Over their three week residency, 2024 featured 7 performances (in addition to winery concerts), with an attendance of approximately 450 seniors, children and students. MITVs additional 2024 community activities included a Play-Along concert for families; free open rehearsals; and a collaboration with the NVYS funding private instrument lessons.
$19,203 spentof which $3,500 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $514,715.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $888k to $1.1M (+22%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 14% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Music in the Vineyards Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $110k → $127k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Music in the Vineyards Inc’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
Music in the Vineyards Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Music in the Vineyards Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 43% · 2019 56% · 2020 40% · 2021 60% · 2022 42% · 2023 51% — 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
35% of Music in the Vineyards Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
86% of Music in the Vineyards Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $144k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $921k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Music in the Vineyards Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Music in the Vineyards Inc
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Music in the Vineyards Inc: 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 Music in the Vineyards Inc?
- Music in the Vineyards Inc (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,065,316 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($488,925). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Music in the Vineyards Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,065,316 in grants to Music in the Vineyards Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Music in the Vineyards Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $488,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Music in the Vineyards Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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