Twenty-one charity organizations, including 10 from Benicia and Vallejo, received a combined $320,000 in grants awarded through the Valero Benicia Refinery’s participation in the Valero Texas Open and Benefit for Children Golf Classic held in the company’s headquarters in San Antonio, Texas last April. The golf tournament raised a record $11 million with funds to […]
Valero awards grants to benefit children, nonprofits
“This is the event I look most forward to every year,” Don Wilson, the vice president and general manager of Valero Benicia Refinery, remarked at the company’s Sponsor Recognition and Charity Grants event, held at the Benicia Veterans Memorial Hall Wednesday morning. Wilson had a good reason to be spirited. The refinery was honoring […]
Nonprofits get arts grant extensions
Theater, ballet groups back in good standing with city, though IRS process drags on for BOTTG Benicia Ballet Theater finally has all its necessary paperwork to receive its city Arts and Culture Commission grant, the City Council heard this week. But while another group, Benicia Old Town Theatre Group, has state documentation that it’s cleared […]
Council to hear reports on theater, ballet nonprofit status
Benicia Public Library Director Diane Smikahl will ask the City Council Tuesday to accept an Arts and Culture Commission recommendation to continue its 2014-15 grant funding allocations for two groups whose nonprofit status came into question in the last grant cycle. Those two organizations are the Benicia Ballet Theatre and the Benicia Old Town Theatre […]
Benicia Ballet Theatre regains status as nonprofit
Benicia Ballet Theatre has received notice from the California Franchise Tax Board that the dance organization’s nonprofit status has been restored, Renee Albrecht, the ballet studio’s publicity coordinator, said. The studio learned in October 2013 that its 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service had been reinstated, retroactive to when it first was determined to […]