Buffalo Place Foundation

Analysis

Buffalo Place Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, 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, Buffalo Place Foundation reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.9m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.8m (-3.1%), an average of -0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Buffalo Place Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Resource Initiative ($1.8m), Dispute Resolution Center of Kitsap County ($1.8m) and Mujeres Unidas En Justicia Educacion Y Reforma Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $444k against liabilities of $203k, net assets of $242k. It reported 29 employees.