Frank Holding Jr
Profile Summary
Frank Holding Jr. is a North Carolina finance executive and the CEO of First Citizens BancShares, with an estimated net worth of ~$1.3B RTB. He was born in 1961 and is identified in recent reporting as making small open-market share purchases in his company NewsAPI.
Business & SEC Activity
Holding is tied to First Citizens BancShares, a bank holding company, and recent market reporting says he acquired 528 shares in June 2026 NewsAPI. In plain terms, SEC insider-trading filings are the disclosures company executives and other insiders must make when they buy or sell company stock; the article indicates a purchase, but the underlying SEC filing details are not provided here NewsAPI.
Philanthropy
No foundation or grantmaking data is provided for Frank Holding Jr. in the supplied records.
Political Activity
From 2018 to 2025, he made 100 federal political contributions totaling $55,638.84 FEC. The largest recipient listed was the First Citizens Bancshares PAC at $35,138.84, and the party breakdown shows $13,400 to Republican recipients and $42,238.84 classified as Unknown FEC.
In the News
Recent reporting in March and June 2026 focused on stock transactions involving First Citizens BancShares, including a June 8 item saying Frank Holding Jr. acquired 528 shares NewsAPI. The other validated item in the dataset concerns a different person and company, not Holding NewsAPI.
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Score Breakdown
The PBS is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced, public accountability data exists — net worth, political contributions, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, and a verified profile. More public disclosure scores higher.
Data: FEC, SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): PBS = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Transparency
Scored on 6/23/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.