California · Nonprofit
Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition
Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,939 to it, the largest being CLIF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition does
Mission
The Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition is a grass-roots nonprofit with a vision to build a walking/biking trail system to connect the entire Napa Valley--physically, artistically, and culturally. We are working to design, fund, construct, and maintain 47 safe and scenic miles of level, paved, family-friendly, pet-friendly, free-access Class I trail, stretching from the Vallejo Ferry to Calistoga.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
With the support of the community and stakeholders, NVVTC builds, maintains, and enhances the Napa Valley Vine Trail. We inspire private philanthropy for the 25% match to receive government support for construction. We are optimizing landowner engagement and pre-engineering to accelerate local jurisdiction's readiness to complete the trail vision of 47 miles of shared-use trail. NVVTC manages the community funds for 50% of the maintenance of 30 miles of completed trail and offers educational programming to increase Vine Trail user-ship to 1 million annually.In 2024-2025, we celebrated the groundbreaking of 8 miles of the breathtaking VINE TRAIL connecting St. Helena and Calistoga, along with 5.5 miles in Vallejo linking the Vallejo Ferry to American Canyonmaking outdoor exploration more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.Our team made significant strides, advancing 35% of the design for Vista Carneros South River Sound, and securing Caltrans approval for an alternative route in the NEPA process for the Yountville to St. Helena link. This progress underscores our commitment to creating a resilient, scenic, and connected trail system. We worked hand-in-hand with 68 landowners,…
$821,223 spentof which $288,445 as grants87% of program spendingTo preserve the trails beauty and safety, we signed four new maintenance agreements covering an additional 13.5 miles and planted two pollinator gardens, supporting biodiversity. To support our town and cities in maintaining our world-class trail, we contributed $120,000 from private donors as the 50% matching funds for maintenance. The VINE TRAIL received national recognition as the 2nd top destination in California from the SF Chronicle, and Forbes Magazine recommended the Napa Valley Vine Trail as a top-ten wine destination in 2025.
$126,077 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $947,300.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $3.2M (+105%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 11% · 2019 3% · 2020 7% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 13% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $14k → $1.5M.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Visit Napa Valley Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition raised.
From the IRS filings of Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition’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
Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 90% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 86% — diversifying over time.
“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 Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
95% of Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $591k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition?
- Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,190,939 to it, the largest being CLIF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,190,939 in grants to Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition?
- CLIF FAMILY 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 Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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