Sonoma Alliance for Vineyards and Environment

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474775494
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Phone
7078232049
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,500
Expenses
$125,945
Assets
$103,456
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DENNIS MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TAYLOR SERRES MURNIG (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DENNIS MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BEN VYBORNEY (TREASURER)
  • NICK FREY (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sonoma alliance for vineyards and environment - save, is a non-profit organization whose principal mission is to promote the well being of wine grape growers, protect the land use interests of wine grape growers and to shape public policy outcomes in sonoma county to achieve that mission.

What it reported doing in 2025

Save will build upon the efforts of many of the members' individual voices and successes to meet its mission of promoting wine grape-grower wellbeing and protecting land use interests. Actions will include a focus on strong communications of save's mission, involvement with alliances that impact wine growing and winery operations, support and impacting outcomes in county policies, and preserving the environment through promoting sustainable wine practices.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.