The Buffalo Foundation

Analysis

The Buffalo Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Godalming. It was registered in April 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Buffalo Foundation reported income of £57k and spending of £60k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £70k to £57k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Buffalo Foundation sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Livingwaters Storehouse (£57k), Shazad Yaseen Foundation (£57k) and Leek Building Society Charitable Foundation (£57k).