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FRIENDSHIP BENCH INC

EIN 85-3440548 BURLINGAME, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,278,819
Expenses 2024
$3,103,651

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 117338

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH IS TO CREATE SAFE SPACES AND A SENSE OF BELONGING IN COMMUNITIES, TO ENHANCE MENTAL WELLBEING AND IMPROVE PEOPLES' QUALITY OF LIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PURPOSE OF THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH IS TO IMPROVE THE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WELLNESS FOR ALL CITIZENS, STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY AND IMPROVING ACCESS FOR EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR CITIZENS IN ZIMBABWE, THE UNITED STATES AND THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE. THIS TASK SHIFTING APPROACH MEANS WE CAN DELIVER AN EFFECTIVE, AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO BRIDGE THE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT GAP AT A PRIMARY CARE LEVEL.

  • THE FRIENDSHIP BENCH STRIVES TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

    Expenses $3,030,926 · Grants $2,810,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dixon Chibanda

    Founder & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Zeryn Sarpangal

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter Twyman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Droege

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lena Zamchiya

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,278,819
    Expenses
    $3,103,651
    Contributions
    $1,233,922
    Grants paid
    $2,810,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,089,923
    Expenses
    $2,797,049
    Contributions
    $5,084,637
    Grants paid
    $2,715,200
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $251,100
    Expenses
    $4,575
    Contributions
    $251,100
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND

    $75,000

    2024

  • KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION US

    $75,000

    2023 PROGRAM SERVICES

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.