Ohio · Nonprofit
THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC
THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,650 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $858k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The Cincinnati International Wine Festival Inc does
Mission
To promote the wine industry & raise funds for local charities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization sponsors wine-themed fund-raising events, from which profits are contributed to various non-profits. For the fiscal year ending 6/30/25, the organization contributed $345,000 to 35 non-profits that support arts, education and health and human services. Each year we publish a "report to the community" to showcase our events and charities affected. See our website www.winefestival.com for a copy of this report. In total, more than $7 million has been granted since 1991.
$857,600 spentof which $345,000 as grants$533,248 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $857,600.
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 $1.8M to $1.4M (−21%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Gagnon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $3k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL 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
THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 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
THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL 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 THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC?
- THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,650 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $60,650 in grants to THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust 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 THE CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 6 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