California · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY
UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,184,065 to it, the largest being REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ($5,038,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $593k
What United Way of the Wine Country does
Mission
The mission of the United Way of the Wine Country is to improve financial stability for all families throughout our service area by activating local businesses, inspiring individual investment, advancing community collaboratives, and influencing public policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Funding for 211 sonoma supports free, confidential, 24/7 information and referral services, as well as livestaff social care coordination that connects sonoma county residents with essential health, social, and disasterrelated resources by phone, by text at 898211, and online at 211sonoma.org. 211 sonoma provides multilingual support and realtime navigation to thousands of local services, helping more than 17,000 community members annually to meet basic needs and access stability building opportunities. The program also serves as an official communications partner to the county of sonoma department of emergency management, delivering timely, trusted information during disasters, extreme weather, and other emergencies.
$624,391 spent52% of program spendingFunding for earn it! Keep it! $ave it! Free tax assistance delivers a volunteer-driven tax preparation program that helps low to moderate-income households earning $79,000 or less to access the federal and state tax credits they've earned, including the caleitc and child tax credit. Through trusted community partnerships and trained irs-certified preparers, eks provides accurate, no-cost filing services that strengthen family financial stability and economic security for more than 6,000 households annually. The program brings more than $13 million back into the local economy each year by ensuring eligible residents save on paid tax preparers and receive their full refunds.
$578,949 spentof which $169,163 as grants48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,203,340.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $2.6M (−45%).
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 12% · 2018 3% · 2019 15% · 2020 21% · 2021 55% · 2022 48% · 2023 46% · 2024 74% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Lisa Carreno
President & CEO
Board chair
Roseanne Ibarra
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $5.5M → $526k.
16 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 52% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 67% · 2022 30% · 2023 44% — 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
28% of UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
90% of UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY: 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 UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY?
- UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,184,065 to it, the largest being REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ($5,038,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $11,184,065 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY?
- REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,038,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY 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 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing