California · Nonprofit
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $558k
What Friends of the Public Bank East Bay does
Mission
The mission of the Friends of the Public Bank East Bay (FPBEB) is to work with local cities and counties to establish a Public Bank in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco, California Bay Area.To achieve its mission Friends of the Public Bank East Bay have commissioned a viability study; hired a consultant to work on the business plan for the Bank; recruited potential board directors; organized town halls and public presentations to educate the Public; promoted the Public Bank East Bay on social media; and raised funds to pay for the business plan and the initial staffing cost of the Bank.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the organization restructured and began exploring a combination of capitalization sources.
$271,760 spentof which $55,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $271,760.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $127k to $432k (+241%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Friends of the Public Bank East Bay’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Deborah Notkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $375k → $425k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Public Bank East Bay’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 Public Bank East Bay leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Public Bank East Bay.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 80% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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 Public Bank East Bay's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $498k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
Friends of the Public Bank East Bay holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of the Public Bank East Bay
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Public Bank East Bay: 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 Public Bank East Bay?
- Friends of the Public Bank East Bay (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Public Bank East Bay have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,148,000 in grants to Friends of the Public Bank East Bay, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Public Bank East Bay?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Public Bank East Bay 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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