Washington · Nonprofit
VITAL WINES
VITAL WINES (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,049 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($315,675). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $613k
- Net assets
- $415k
What Vital Wines does
Mission
Vital Wines improves equity in access to healthcare for vineyard workers and their families through education, advocacy, and direct services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vital's day at home program provided 178 days of the average daily wage, $108.00 per day, to allow for vineyard workers to stay home and recover from major medical emergencies. People can return to work healthy and have the time to seek the care they need. This program helps mitigate the loss of income while the client is unable to work.
$19,224 spent4% of program spendingIn partnership with providence st. Mary population health and blue mountain action council, vital co-funds a promotora de salud/community health worker dedicated to the latinx community, with a focus on vineyard workers and their families. In may and june 2024, respectively, we funded two positions at each partner organization. The efforts of both promotoras reached latino farmworkers through vineyard site visits, one on one navigation, health fairs, and health literacy information sent out via text.
$220,156 spent44% of program spendingVital launched a vision program for vineyard workers and their k-12 school age children. Vital pays for an eye exam every two years (or annually if the client has related health issues) and the first pair of eye glasses for current vineyard employees and/or their school age dependents. In 2024 vital funded xx eye exams and provided xx pairs of glasses.
$47,739 spentof which $5,000 as grants10% of program spendingVital's tasting room is located in the community that we serve. It exists to provide a space to educate wine consumers about the inequities of the industry and empowers them to make change through donations, wine purchases, or recurring support.
$215,364 spent$208,610 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $502,483.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $349k to $513k (+47%).
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: 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of VITAL WINES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Maddie Richards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $23k → $150k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 VITAL WINES’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
VITAL WINES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 VITAL WINES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 55% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of VITAL WINES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
64% of VITAL WINES'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 $220k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
VITAL WINES is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VITAL WINES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VITAL WINES: 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 VITAL WINES?
- VITAL WINES (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $613,049 to it, the largest being BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($315,675). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VITAL WINES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $613,049 in grants to VITAL WINES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VITAL WINES?
- BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VITAL WINES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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