Vine Foundation

Analysis

Vine Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Aliso Viejo, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Vine Foundation reported income of $289k and spending of $336k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $374k to $289k (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Vine Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Addie and Baylor Kirchgessner Foundation Inc ($289k), Oregon Hospitality Foundation ($289k) and Woodard & Curran Charitable Foundation ($289k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.