United Way of the Wine Country
Santa Rosa, CA · EIN 94-1669646. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,643,096 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of the Wine Country, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,801. Half of what it reported fell between $7,325 and $25,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $156,192. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Coast Opportunities Inc | Ukiah, CA | $242,078 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $236,484 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Northern California | Concord, CA | $156,192 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | Washington, DC | $152,150 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nuestra Alianza De Willits | Willits, CA | $86,880 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center | Eureka, CA | $56,500 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church | Windsor, CA | $42,541 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Petaluma People Service Center | Petaluma, CA | $42,237 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nexo Media Foundation Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $38,070 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social Science Research Council | Brooklyn, NY | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| River to Coast Childrens Services | Guerneville, CA | $32,206 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Scopa Has a Dream Inc | Healdsburg, CA | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hanna Boys Center | Sonoma, CA | $25,275 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Latino Service Providers | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Bay Jobs With Justice | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Daily Acts Organization | Petaluma, CA | $24,915 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Round Valley Public Library | Covelo, CA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nevada County United Way | Grass Valley, CA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Way of the Bay Area | San Francisco, CA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Way | Marysville, CA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Landpaths | Santa Rosa, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $22,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Santa Rosa, CA | $20,585 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| La Luz Center | Sonoma, CA | $20,018 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Creser Capital Fund | Sausalito, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lake County Economic Development Corporation | Lakeport, CA | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food for Thought | Forestville, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tlc Child & Family Services | Sebastopol, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Los Cien Sonoma County Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Face to Face Sonoma County AIDS Network | Santa Rosa, CA | $12,550 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Positive Images | Santa Rosa, CA | $10,323 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Individuals Now Inc Social Advocates for Youth | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Matters | Santa Rosa, CA | $8,300 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| On the Move | Napa, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Larry Noe | Eureka, CA | $5,292 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| On the Move | Napa, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Lake County Fire | Middletown, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
10 of 39 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Lutheran Social Services (as Fiscal Agent for Roc Sonoma)
October 2017 Fire Relief Fund & Kincade Fire Relief - Community Action Partnership Sonoma County
Earn It! Keep It! Save It! / Vita Tax Assistance Program - North Coast Opportunities
Earn it! Keep it! Save it!
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 50 | $1,016,245 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 11 | $345,820 | $28,000 |
| 2022 | 7 | $151,963 | $19,034 |
| 2023 | 8 | $129,068 | $11,676 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
89% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,801 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of the Wine Country's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 975 Corporate Center Pkwy 160, Santa Rosa, CA, 95407.
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