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WINE INSTITUTE

WINE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $93,000 to it, the largest being Napa Valley Vintners ($93,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$27M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$93k
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2018 Revenue 99 ($22M) Expenses 99 ($22M) Net assets 101 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 102 ($23M) Expenses 101 ($23M) Net assets 105 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 108 ($25M) Expenses 108 ($24M) Net assets 107 ($4.8M)2021 Revenue 113 ($26M) Expenses 113 ($26M) Net assets 108 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 122 ($28M) Expenses 121 ($27M) Net assets 113 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 122 ($28M) Expenses 122 ($28M) Net assets 115 ($5.2M)2024 Revenue 111 ($25M) Expenses 112 ($25M) Net assets 111 ($5.0M)2025 Revenue 118 ($27M) Expenses 122 ($28M) Net assets 95 ($4.3M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (118)Expenses (122)Net assets (95)

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 38% · 2021 43% · 2022 47% · 2023 44% · 2024 39% · 2025 47%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
17
$31k
18
$182k
19
$109k
20
$40k
21
$245k
22
$56k
23
$154k
24
$734k
25
2.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $8k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of WINE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of WINE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Government funding WINE INSTITUTE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.0M on record.

Federal$31.0M
grants $31.0Mcontracts $14k
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25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$31.0M
  • Department of State$14k

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 WINE INSTITUTE

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

92
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

CA
DC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Wine Institute California PAC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINE INSTITUTE: 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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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 WINE INSTITUTE?
WINE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $93,000 to it, the largest being Napa Valley Vintners ($93,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINE INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $93,000 in grants to WINE INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINE INSTITUTE?
Napa Valley Vintners is the largest funder on record, with $93,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINE INSTITUTE 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing