California · Nonprofit
SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS
SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,000 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Giving as One Inclocalportfolio match
- Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Simon Blattner Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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 8% · 2018 15% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $150k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 VINTNERS’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 VINTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 VINTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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
68% of SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Women Giving as One Inclocalportfolio matchCA · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 43 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Simon Blattner Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 31 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Heck Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 77 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Exchange Bank Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sanderson Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchNV · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Vadasz Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hamel Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clark-Janis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tietz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northbay Healthcare Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS?
- SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,000 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $220,000 in grants to SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS.
- Who is the largest funder of SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS?
- Stanislaus Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing