Lodi Grape Festival & National Wine Show Association

Analysis

Lodi Grape Festival & National Wine Show Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Lodi, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2025. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Lodi Grape Festival & National Wine Show Association reported income of $2.6m and spending of $1.9m, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $2.6m (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 367%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lodi Grape Festival & National Wine Show Association sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young Womens Christian Association of Memphis Tenn ($2.6m), International Outreach Services ($2.6m) and Springfield Area Parent Child Center ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $227k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $228k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $110k, net assets of $3.1m.