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Friends of the Oakland Branch

Friends of the Oakland Branch (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,020 to it, the largest being THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$44k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$88k
Net assets
$65k
0/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of the Oakland Branch does

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to improve the economic, educational, political, and social status of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Grants to NAACP for Economic, Legal, and Social Action

  2. IMANI Schol represented scholarships to underrepresented students

    $12,134 spent
    48% of program spending
  3. Juneteenth

    $13,353 spent
    52% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,487.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($138k) Expenses 100 ($106k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2025 Revenue 32 ($44k) Expenses 56 ($59k) Net assets 81 ($65k)
20242025
Revenue (32)Expenses (56)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $81k to $65k (−19%).

$81k
$65k
20242025
Total assets

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Friends of the Oakland Branch’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,450 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’24
−$15k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $10k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Friends of the Oakland Branch’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Friends of the Oakland Branch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Friends of the Oakland Branch.

40%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Friends of the Oakland Branch's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of the Oakland Branch's revenue fell 68% between 2024 and 2025.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−68% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Oakland Branch: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of the Oakland Branch?
Friends of the Oakland Branch (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,020 to it, the largest being THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of the Oakland Branch have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $88,020 in grants to Friends of the Oakland Branch.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Oakland Branch?
THE OAKLAND ATHLETICS COMMUNITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Oakland Branch find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing