California · Nonprofit
PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,500 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $201k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Petaluma Blacks for Community Development does
Mission
Share black history and culture, uplift youth, and build inclusive connections that strengthen the entire community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide black history and cultural events to the community through annual black history program, exhibit and othier events that are free and open to all.these programs and exhibit draw people from all over sonoma. County. We average upward of 300 people at our black hisory program and the museum recorded 1700 that saw our exhibit. In addition, we presented with the museum of sonoma county an art in conversation with 5 local artist discussing african american journey through art. For women's history month, we did a lecture via zoom with miriam thaggert about her book, "riding jane crow:african american women on the american railroad.
$10,759 spent16% of program spendingProvide support to our black youth through our grapevine youth leadership program. This program was started in 2021 and averages 20 students for each 6 month co-hort. It is open to students 13 to 18. It introduces students to leadership skills, provide fellowship with other youth, introduce them to black professional and they perform service projects. In 2025, the youth did workshops on financial literacy, the youth spent the night at the california academy of science, they attended the black expo in sacramento to learn about black colleges and universities and they visited the oakland museum. The youth took flowers to 3 care facilities in petaluma on mother's day. They had monthly meeting to have fun and get to know each other.
$9,455 spent14% of program spendingEnsure that the black community becomes a positive force within the county, we work as individuals and collectively to participate in all areas of our community. We are members of the petaluma chamber and downtown association. We participate in petaluma's annual butter and eggs day parade and the sonoma county juneteenth celebration. We participate with other oranizations in their events. We also speak at other organizations meetings about Petaluma Blacks for Community Development.
$4,583 spent7% of program spendingTo provide support to new black families moving into the community, and visitors, we provide a 3 fold brochure to the chamber of commerce, visitors center, museum and other places that provides information about our group and how to get in touch with us. Our community picnic is another way of letting people learn about us.
$2,877 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$40,986 spent$5,000 earned by the program60% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,660.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $103k to $212k (+106%).
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: 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $11k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’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
PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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
60% of PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $47k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,500 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $118,500 in grants to PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETALUMA BLACKS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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