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Sonoma County Herb Association

Sonoma County Herb Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,097 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 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 FY2024
$36k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$54k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Sonoma County Herb Association does

Mission

Fostering respect for the green world and our community through the responsible use and sustainable cultivation of herbs

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Sonoma County Herb Exchange - A clearing house providing the highest quality locally and ecologically grown herbs to our local community. The Herb Exchange links local herb growers with practitioners and product makers.The Sonoma County Herb Festival - For eight prior years, we have held an annual Herb Festival every autumn featuring free herb classes and herb walks throughout the day, lots of booths featuring herbal products, plants, practitioners, and information. In addition, there were childrens activities, great music and tasty food.

    $35,559 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,559.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 98 ($73k) Expenses 107 ($75k) Net assets 96 ($43k)2020 Revenue 186 ($140k) Expenses 128 ($89k) Net assets 119 ($53k)2021 Revenue 155 ($116k) Expenses 145 ($102k) Net assets 183 ($81k)2022 Revenue 121 ($91k) Expenses 149 ($104k) Net assets 145 ($64k)2023 Revenue 53 ($40k) Expenses 78 ($55k) Net assets 60 ($27k)2024 Revenue 48 ($36k) Expenses 67 ($47k) Net assets 121 ($54k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (48)Expenses (67)Net assets (121)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $64k to $27k (−58%).

$45k
$43k
$53k
$81k
$64k
$27k
$63k
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$2k
’18
$50k
’20
$15k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$15k
’23
−$11k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $16.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 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 Sonoma County Herb Association’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

Sonoma County Herb Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Sonoma County Herb Association.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of Sonoma County Herb Association'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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Sonoma County Herb Association

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sonoma County Herb Association: 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 Sonoma County Herb Association?
Sonoma County Herb Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,097 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 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 Sonoma County Herb Association have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,097 in grants to Sonoma County Herb Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sonoma County Herb Association?
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sonoma County Herb Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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