30th Annual Check Presentation

Beneficiary Application

If you would like your organization to be considered as a 2026 beneficiary of the Livermore Valley Wine Auction, please complete the package below including the Application and Memorandum of Understanding then submit to the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Foundation. The 2025 deadline for beneficiary applications is 3/31/2026. If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact Brandi Lombardi at 925.447.9463.

2026 Beneficiaries

Beneficiary applications for 2026 are now closed. See the 2026 beneficiaries below.

Exceptional Needs Network
Provides an all inclusive camp experience for children with developmental disabilities complete with medical accommodations, nutrition, and personal camp counselors for assistance.

Discovery Counseling Center
Provides subsidized and no-cost mental health counseling services for underserved or at-risk children and adolescents.

Open Heart Kitchen
Provides community meal program and grocery distribution to low-income families with children in the Tri-Valley.

Nephrotic Syndrome Foundation
Hosts Camp NSF to allow children with Nephrotic Syndrome and their families to participate in safe and exciting community building activities.

Past Beneficiaries

Kids Bike Lane

Kids Bike Lane – Provides bikes for under-served youth in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, with the goal of empowering them to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

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Quest for Science – crates new programs for local children, including mobile exhibits, after school programs, family science night and summer enrichment programs.

Fostering Wishes

Fostering Wishes – Provides new duffel bags for each foster child they serve. The bags are filled with toiletries, water bottles, school supplies, and other age-appropriate items.

Open Heart Kitchen

Open Heart Kitchen – provides low-income children and families with access to healthy foods through its grocery distribution program.

Past Beneficiaries

2025:

  • Open Heart Kitchen, provides community meal program and grocery distribution to low-income families with children in the Tri-Valley
  • CALICO, provides critical forensic interviewing and family advocacy services to children who have experienced abuse
  • Sunflower Hill, creates places and spaces where people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) can live, work, learn and thrive
  • Valley Humane Society, provides canine comfort pet-assisted therapy for children

2024:

  • Teen Esteem+
  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace
  • Livermore Valley of Arts
  • Down Syndrome Connection
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Tracy
  • Agape Villages Foster Family Agency

2023:

  • Kids Bike Lane
  • Quest for Science
  • Fostering Wishes
  • Open Heart Kitchen

2022:

  • The Quest Science Center
  • The Boys & Girls Club of Tracy
  • George Mark
  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP)

2021:

  • The Quest Science Center
  • Calico Center
  • Exceptional Needs Network
  • Reigns in Motion
  • Livermore Shakespeare’s “So Wise So Young” Program brings

2020:

  • Shelter-in-place meal distribution through the Livermore schools

2019:

  • Agape Villages
  • The Boys and Girls Club of Tracy
  • Camp Phoenix
  • Livermore Shakespeare Festival
  • Quest Science Center

2018:

  • De La Salle Academy
  • Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center’s Bankhead Theater
  • Open Heart Kitchen
  • STEAM Programs in Tri-Valley school districts

2017:

  • Camp Phoenix
  • George Mark Children’s House
  • Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
  • SonRise Equestrian
  • Musical instruments for Tri-Valley Schools

2016:

  • Agape Villages
  • The Bankhead Theater
  • Livermore Valley Education Foundation
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Fund a Need: Open Heart Kitchen

2015:

  • Bankhead Theater
  • George Mark Children’s House
  • Las Positas College Foundation’s 2Gen Fund
  • Shakespeare Associates

2014:

  • Art in Action
  • Bankhead Youth Program
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Agape Villages Foster Family Agency

2013:

  • Bankhead Youth Program
  • Happy Talkers
  • Livermore Valley Education Fund
  • Open Heart Kitchen
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation

2012:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Open Heart Kitchen

2011:

  • Children’s Skin Disease Foundation
  • Open Heart Kitchen
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation

2010:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Mobile Health Unit
  • Open Heart Kitchen
  • Children’s Skin Disease Foundation
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony

2009:

  • Children’s Skin Disease Foundation
  • Kaleidoscope After-School Program – Easter Seals Bay Area
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Mobile Health Unit

2008:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Mobile Health Unit
  • Kaleidoscope After-School Program – Easter Seals Bay Area
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony

2008 PGA NATIONWIDE TOUR DISTRIBUTIONS:

  • Children’s Skin Disease Foundation
  • Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
  • Livermore Rotary

2007:

  • Kaleidoscope After-School Program – Easter Seals Bay Area
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit

2007 PGA NATIONWIDE TOUR DISTRIBUTIONS:

  • Livermore Rotary
  • Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
  • The Taylor Family Foundation

2006:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit
  • Kaleidoscope After-School Program – Easter Seals Bay Area
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony

2006 PGA NATIONWIDE TOUR DISTRIBUTIONS:

  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
  • Education Foundation Partners
  • Livermore Rotary

2005:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit
  • Hope Hospice
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony

2004:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit
  • Hope Hospice
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony

2003:

  • Hope Hospice
  • Oakland East Bay Symphony
  • The Taylor Family Foundation
  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit

2002:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit
  • Hope Hospice
  • Good News Bears
  • The Taylor Family Foundation

2001:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation – Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Unit
  • Hope Hospice
  • Good News Bears
  • The Taylor Family Foundation

2000:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library
  • Hope Hospice
  • Good News Bears
  • Tri-Valley Community Fund

1999:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library
  • Tri-Valley Community Fund

1997:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library
  • Other Local Charities

1998:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library
  • Tri-Valley Community Fund

1996:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library

1995:

  • Valley Care Health Systems/Foundation
  • Ryan Comer Cancer Resource Center/ValleyCare Health Library