Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc

Analysis

Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1942, 84 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc reported income of $15.8m and spending of $15.7m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $11.5m to $15.8m (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Center for Constitutional Rights Inc ($15.8m), Iowa Legal Aid ($15.8m) and Wilkinson County Industrial Development Authority ($15.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $630k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $10.2m. At year end it held assets of $10.4m against liabilities of $8.4m, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 180 employees.