Sonoma County Vintners Foundation
Preselected recipients only
Sonoma County Vintners Foundation is a private foundation in Santa Rosa, California. In tax year 2021 it gave $1.1 million in 92 grants; the typical grant was $10,000 and the largest $125,000. It only gives to organizations it selects itself and does not accept unsolicited applications.
From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2021.
- Grants paid, 2021$1.1 million
- Number of grants92
- Typical grant$10,000
- Largest grant$125,000
- Assets$1.9 million
How to apply
Sonoma County Vintners Foundation says in its IRS filing that it only makes contributions to preselected organizations, so unsolicited applications are unlikely to be considered. Organizations it funds are usually invited.
What Sonoma County Vintners Foundation funds
Where it gives
Its grants went to recipients in 2 states, the most to California.
| State | Grants | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| California | 91 | $1.1 million |
| Louisiana | 1 | $25,000 |
Grants paid in 2021
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County | Inspire and support students, equip educators and strengthen our regions economic future. | $125,000 |
| Emeril Lagasse Foundation | Grant for hurricane ida relief and recovery efforts | $25,000 |
| California Indian Museum & Cultural Center | To provide arts workshops to native peoples through the healing through cultural arts wellness project | $15,000 |
| Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society | To support the development of an extensive dry creek pomo exhibit in collaboration with dry creek rancheria | $15,000 |
| Vivo Youth Orchestras | For general support | $15,000 |
| California Human Development | To provide a virtual recreational summer series with mental health check-ins for camp nunez campers | $15,000 |
| Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County | To expand the successful sonoma corps pilot | $15,000 |
| Common Ground Society | To support the just two moms program to provide presentations and curriculum focused on how to be more inclusive and accepting of those with disabilities | $15,000 |
| Community Matters | To engage, empower and equip young people to support and assist their peers struggling with mental health challenges through the safe school ambassadors (ssa) program | $15,000 |
| Forget Me Not Childrens Services | For animal/horticulture-assisted intervention providing evidence-based therapeutic experiences at the farm/garden or through the mobile school program | $15,000 |
| Latino Service Providers | To support the youth promotor internship program | $15,000 |
| Northern California Center for Well-Being | To equip the established project true peer leaders with new mental health resources and trainings | $15,000 |
| Side by Side | To deepen the services and collaboration between petaluma schools and side by side's youthrive and community counseling programs | $15,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Education Foundation | To connect students with a contracted provider for ongoing, urgent therapy | $15,000 |
| Landpaths | To hire seasonal staff from underrepresented communities to conduct fire fuel reduction, create fuel brakes, and conduct fire recovery work in the glass fire burn scar | $15,000 |
| Sonoma Ecology Center | For vegetation management for east sonoma mountain at the sonoma developmental center property to mitigate fire risk to eldridge, glen ellen, and adjacent communities | $15,000 |
| Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition DBA Operation Access | To coordinate donated surgeries and specialty medical procedures for uninsured people in sonoma county | $15,000 |
| Buckelew Programs | To provide rental, utility, food and basic needs assistance to persons living with a severe and persistent mental illness diagnosis | $15,000 |
| California Parenting Institute (Cpi) | To support the basic needs program | $15,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | To provide sonoma countys homeless families with food, shelter, housing-focused case management, and child development support | $15,000 |
| Cloverdale Senior Multipurpose Center | To provide food resources, rental assistance and utility assistance to those most vulnerable in our community | $15,000 |
| Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County | To provide high-need, low-income sonoma county residents direct, immediate basic needs | $15,000 |
| Cots (Committee on the Shelterless) | To support the cots food program mary's table | $15,000 |
| Farm to Pantry | To provide fresh produce to vulnerable populations | $15,000 |
| La Luz Center | To help low-income sonoma valley families meet immediate basic needs | $15,000 |
| Petaluma People Services Center | To support meals on wheels to provide home-delivered meals for at-risk seniors | $15,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | To provide funding that will allow redwood empire food bank to sustain its efforts to end hunger in the community | $15,000 |
| River to Coast Children's Services | To provide food, diapers, short-term shelter, health and safety supplies for west sonoma families in need | $15,000 |
| Shared Housing and Resource Exchange California | To support COVID-related homeless prevention | $15,000 |
| TLC Child & Family Services | To provide direct financial assistance to current and former foster youth and formerly homeless youth for emergency basic needs through tlc's transitional housing program | $15,000 |
| Verity-Compassion Safety Support A California Corporation | To ensure that survivors of sexual violence have their basic needs met as they begin to heal | $15,000 |
| Women's Recovery Services - A Unique Place | To provide a bridge housing subsidy for women with minor children to enter wrs transitional housing | $15,000 |
| YWCA of Sonoma County | To provide adult and child victims of domestic violence with basic needs | $15,000 |
| Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation | For general support | $12,500 |
| Museum of Sonoma County | To support the exhibition agency: feminist art and power to promote a vision of a positive, empowered future for women and girls | $12,500 |
| Santa Rosa Symphony | To provide free instruments and afterschool instruction to underserved roseland youth through the simply strings program | $12,500 |
| Sonoma State University | For general support of the green music center | $12,500 |
| Russian Riverkeeper | To protect water quality in the walbridge fire area and also build in-demand skills and provide employment to local black, indigenous, people of color youth | $12,500 |
| Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods | To support the stewards of the coast and redwoods and sonoma county youth ecology corps partnership to work on fire recovery and fuel reduction projects in armstrong redwoods snr and austin creek sra | $12,500 |
| Artstart (Start Soco) | To support artstart's integrative arts program to engage teens in efforts to overcome barriers to achieve artistic dreams | $10,000 |
Officers and trustees
- M Malpiede
- R Joy
- C Mauritson
- C Castaldi
- S Bryan
- D Ramey
- M Martini
- K Stare Wallace
- A Keller
- R Johnson
- R Idell
- M Haney
- C Munsell
- E Brooks
- C Foley
Questions people ask
Does Sonoma County Vintners Foundation accept grant applications?
No. Its IRS filing says it only makes contributions to preselected organizations.
How much does Sonoma County Vintners Foundation give?
$1.1 million in tax year 2021, across 92 grants, with a typical grant of $10,000.
Who runs Sonoma County Vintners Foundation?
Its 2021 filing lists M Malpiede (Vice President), R Joy (Board Member), C Mauritson (President) and C Castaldi (Marketing Committee Chair) among 15 officers and trustees.
What does Sonoma County Vintners Foundation fund?
Based on its grants, mainly youth programs, education and human services.