Junior League of Buffalo Inc

Analysis

Junior League of Buffalo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1942, 84 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2023, Junior League of Buffalo Inc reported income of $77k and spending of $524k, spending 685% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income fell from $520k to $77k (-85%), an average of -38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 311%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Junior League of Buffalo Inc sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 30th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moretta Community Development Foundation ($77k), Mentorscope Community Outreach ($77k) and Stover Community Betterment Council Inc ($77k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $24k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $655k, net assets of $502k. It reported 1 employees.