New York · Nonprofit
AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC
AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,353 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($173,761). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $224k
What African Cultural Center of Buffalo Inc does
Mission
To promote sponsor and develop an appreciation of and allegiance to african and african american heritage and commit to enhance social behavior amoung african american youths through multi disciplinary education and training in the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provided a center for the community where african and african american youths could develop an appreciation of and allegiance to african and african american hertiage. The organization also enhanced the social behavior amoung african american youths through multi disciplinary education and training of the arts.
$631,953 spent$550,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $631,953.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $219k to $444k (+103%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 78% · 2021 69% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Leah Angel Daniel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $21k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 96% · 2020 81% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC?
- AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,353 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($173,761). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $252,353 in grants to AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC?
- UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $173,761 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF BUFFALO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing