2026-08-10T16:08:54-07:00 2025-09-30 204994635 Iryna AC 1000 Broadway Ste 200-C Oakland CA 94607 990 2024-10-01 473955286 Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy dba Bay Area Book Festival FOUN 5102391652 1569 Solano Avenue 635 Berkeley CA 94707 George Rehm Board Chair 2026-08-10 true true Kostyantyn Oreshkov EA P00923916 5104679506 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Joshua Fowler 1569 Solano Avenue 635 Berkeley CA 94707 694364 false X www.baybookfest.org X 2015 CA The organization's mission is to produce high-caliber, free and affordable literary and literacy programs for Northern California residents and visitors. 5 5 3 300 0 478642 623436 57503 70012 1228 127 658 537373 694233 0 0 94181 267689 0 28402 429902 491070 524083 758759 13290 -64526 106591 42727 5031 5370 101560 37357 The Bay Area Book Festival celebrates a wide spectrum of literary voices, nurtures literary culture and community, cultivates literacy, and promotes great literary work, with special attention to work that engages with pressing social issues.We carry out our mission by creating relevant, thoughtful programming that we present at an annual, inclusive, weekend literary festival and in year-round literary events. The Festival features dozens of keynotes, interviews, panels and performances by hundreds of notable writers across literary genres and backgrounds. The festival also includes a robust outdoor fair with hundreds of literary exhibitors and a range of childrens activities. false false 680563 70670 During FY 2425, the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy dba Bay Area Book Festival produced its 11th annual festival, held May 31June 1, 2025 in downtown Berkeley, themed Changing the Narrative. The 2025 theme invited attendees to consider how narratives shape what is possible in our communities, encouraging people to rethink dominant stories, bridge divides, and imagine more just futures through literature. Across the weekend the festival offered more than 80 events and over 240 invited speakers in Inside Ideas conversations, Democracy Dialogues, Family Day programming, writers workshops, and a large outdoor Bookworm Block Party with 120+ exhibitors including bookstores, small presses, literary organizations, and community partners. Press coverage and festival materials highlighted headliners and widely known participants such as Piper Kerman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alka Joshi, and Prentis Hemphill, along with a range of legends and emerging voices whose work engages incarceration, refugee experience, diaspora, healing justice, and narrative change. Programming foregrounded social justice and collective care, with panels on mutual aid, democracy, racial and gender equity, queer and trans storytelling, environmental crisis, and graphic novels as tools for social action, while Family Day activities provided story times, crafts, and interactive sessions that local media recognized as among the Bay Areas best family-friendly arts offerings. In addition to the main festival weekend, BABF hosted one-off author events and media partnerships during the fiscal year, such as interviews and features with festival guests on KPFA and other outlets, that extended the Changing the Narrative theme into the broader regional conversation prior to September 30, 2025, deepening engagement with readers and communities throughout the year. There were around 25,000 people in attendance over the weekend. 680563 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 32 0 true 3 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 5 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X X Shasta Production Services 5105504200 785 7th Street Oakland CA 94607 Joshua Fowler Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 X 120000 0 0 Piper Kerman Board Chair 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Aida Salazar Secretary 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 George Rehm Treasurer 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Aya de Len Board Member 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gabriel Cortez Board Member 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Terria Smith Board Member 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 120000 1 false false false 0 58800 564636 623436 Events Fees 711310 38959 38959 Ticket Sales 711190 31053 31053 70012 127 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 789 131 658 658 0 694233 70670 127 X 0 0 0 0 120000 72000 36000 12000 0 100687 95460 2019 3208 3848 3848 25151 19587 3975 1589 18003 18003 0 0 22150 22150 0 0 0 171652 156277 7800 7575 58190 58190 16117 16117 0 0 0 21628 21628 0 0 0 0 0 6615 6615 Indoor Literacy Programming 63004 63004 Outdoor Fair 49444 49444 Graton Tribe Project 47551 47551 Dues and other charges 15155 15155 19564 15534 4030 758759 680563 49794 28402 3637 9146 100855 30895 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2099 2186 0 0 0 500 106591 42727 5031 5370 5031 5370 X 101560 37357 101560 37357 106591 42727 -64526 323 X false false false X 762932 802719 778987 478642 623436 3446716 0 0 762932 802719 778987 478642 623436 3446716 1601371 1845345 304 349 1400 1228 127 3408 0 0 3450124 404854 0.53490 0.69390 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The FY 24-25 Form 990 will be reviewed and signed off by Board Chair George Rehm and Board Treasurer Sarah Valor. Once signed and filed, the completed Form 990 is retained in the official archives for the Board and organization. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Executive Director and Board Chair monitor activity. Any potential conflicts of interest are discussed with Board members individually and/or as part of official meetings of the Board. No such conflicts have been observed in FY 24-25 or any fiscal year since the organizations inception. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Board, meeting in executive session, carefully reviewed the information turned up in our examination of comparable compensation at similar organizations and set a middle course between the highest and lowest levels of comparable compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Available upon request.