Provident Bancorp, Inc. 2025-2026 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: The approval of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "merger agreement"), dated as of June 5, 2025, by and among NB Bancorp, Inc., Needham Bank, 1828 MS, Inc., Provident Bancorp Inc., and BankProv, and to approve the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, including the merger (the "merger") of 1828 MS, Inc. with and into Provident Bancorp, Inc., with Provident Bancorp, Inc. as the surviving entity.

Provident Bancorp, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“1. To approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 5, 2025 (the “merger agreement”), by and among Needham, Needham Bank, 1828 MS, Inc., the Company, and BankProv, and to approve the transactions contemplate”): 11,985,629 for, 103,856 against, per its Form 8-K filed September 17, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 99.1% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 35 asset managers below reported 2,174,734 for.

Showing the 25 largest of 35 asset managers. See all 35 in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: The approval of one or more adjournments of the special meeting, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies if there are not sufficient votes at the time of the special meeting, or at any adjournment or postponement of that meeting, to approve the merger agreement and the merger, or to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the proxy statement/prospectus is timely provided to Provident Bancorp, Inc. stockholders.

The 34 asset managers below reported 2,131,829 for, 39,155 against. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Showing the 25 largest of 34 asset managers. See all 34 in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: The approval, on an advisory (non- binding) basis, of specified compensation that may become payable to the named executive officers of Provident Bancorp, Inc. in connection with the merger.

Provident Bancorp, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“2. To approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, specified compensation that may become payable to the named executive officers of the Company in connection with the Merger”): 7,305,003 for, 4,397,758 against, per its Form 8-K filed September 17, 2025 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 62% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 34 managers: 728,933 for, 1,442,051 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 77 managers: 2,208,084 for, 2,259,120 against, 135,375 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 1 managers: 3,750 against.

Institutional-manager reports, all 1 managers: 7,560 against.