Buffalo Sabres Foundation

Analysis

Buffalo Sabres Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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 Sabres Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.7m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.9m (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Buffalo Sabres Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Camp Blessing Texas ($1.9m), Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation ($1.9m) and Boys and Girls Clubs of the Columbia Area ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $654k against liabilities of $195k, net assets of $459k.