New York · Nonprofit
BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $887,694 to it, the largest being BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS ($887,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $888k
- Net assets
- $-211678
What Brick Buffalo Academy Charter School does
Mission
At Brick Buffalo Academy Charter School ("bracs"), we will graduate a community of learners who will contribute positively to our global society and embrace their role as architects in building a just and better world. We use a holistic approach to ensure that students from east buffalo neighborhoods have the knowledge, skills and support needed to be college, career and life-ready upon graduation, our school provides a rigorous, inclusive and culturally responsive curriculum that challenges students academically and builds their social emotional competencies. We also immerse our families in an ecosystem of rich community parterships to support them in maintaining the stable and healthy homes necessary for children to thrive. In partnership with our families, we empower our students to draw strength from their identity and become leaders in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brick buffalo is a tuition free public charter elementary school rooted in buffalo, open to all and designed to help students thrive in the classroom and in life.
$1,536,402 spent$986,543 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,536,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.5M to $1.5M (−39%).
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: 2024 53% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Yolanda Wood
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's revenue fell 33% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $887,694 to it, the largest being BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS ($887,694). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $887,694 in grants to BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS is the largest funder on record, with $887,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRICK BUFFALO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing