Buffalo Legacy Project Inc

Analysis

Buffalo Legacy Project Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2025. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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 2021, Buffalo Legacy Project Inc reported income of $66k and spending of $88k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $50k to $66k (+33%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 4014%. Over the whole period it spent 230% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Buffalo Legacy Project Inc sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chatham Friends of the Parks ($66k), Santa Rosa County Fair Association Inc ($66k) and Mike Sedar BMX Parents Association Inc ($66k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $320k against liabilities of $1,388, net assets of $318k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.