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Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc

The mission of the say yes buffalo partnership is to remove barriers to educational attainment, workforce participation and economic mobility for students in public and charter schools in buffalo and niagara falls, ny. Our collective impact partnership, centered on racial equity and inclusion, provides a postsecondary tuition promise and…

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
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100% of Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Greater Buffalo Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$3,748,506
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,748,506
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$61M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$21M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC$3,748,506

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About Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc

How much does Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc give?
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc reported 1 grants totaling $3,748,506 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc based?
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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