California · Nonprofit
Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc
Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $192 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $192
- Net assets
- $25k
What Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Organization is to encourage and support agricultural education and to foster appreciation of the unique qualities of the Russian River Valley viticultural area of Sonoma County, California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
HIGH SCHOOL VINEYARD PROGRAMThe Organization supports agricultural education through a high school vineyard program on a high school campus (Analy High School in Sebastopol, California). During 2025, the Organization supported the students' educational activities for the pruning and harvesting 3.614 tons of fruit and providing new tires for the high school agricultural department vehicle. In addition, the Organization sponsored the student's travel and participation in a pruning contest and a grapevine judging contest.Vineyard grapes grown by the students as part of the program activities are sold to help fund program expenses.
$20,610 spent100% of program spendingEDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPSThe Organization grants educational scholarhips to students furthering their education in agriculture. No scholarships were awarded to graduating high school students and current college students in the year ended December 31, 2025. The board has put a temporary hold on awarding scholarships until construction of a new agricultural education building on the high school campus is completed, and the board can assess if the classrooms will have the necessary supplies needed for the agricultural program.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,610.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $66k to $34k (−48%).
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.
14% of Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $61 → $54.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc's revenue fell 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc?
- Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $192 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $192 in grants to Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Russian River Valley Winegrowers Foundation 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 1 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