Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jan 2005.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
68 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
8 people listed on the 990; $15K paid to officers and key staff.
Faith Ross’s $15K as Excutive Director is at the 11th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2215 $100K–1M arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
See Petaluma Blacks for Community Development executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Petaluma Blacks for Community Development is an arts and culture nonprofit based in Petaluma, CA, formed in 2004.
Questions for Petaluma Blacks for Community Development
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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.
Provide 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.
Ensure 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.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $103K | $212K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $103K | $212K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $482 | $9K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $102K | $203K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $15K | $15K | ||
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $30K | $30K | ||
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $4K | $3K | $1K | |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Information technologyLn 14 | $6K | $6K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $5K | $5K | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $30K | $30K | ||
| All other expensesLn 24e | $8K | $4K | $3K | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $101K | $69K | $32K | $0 |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Apr 27, 2026 | $201K | $101K | $100K | $203K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS May 6, 2025 | $70K | $102K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Oct 18, 2024 | $136K | $75K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $201,272 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 7 of 8 board members independent, 3 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $201,272 across 6 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $101,054 across 10 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $211,534 assets, 8 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $202,615 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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