New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL
BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,642 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($389,125). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $0
What Buffalo Collegiate Charter School does
Mission
With unrelenting determination and a commitment to excellence, Buffalo Collegiate Charter School educated students in grades 4 through 12 to graduate from the college of their choice and serve as our next generation of leaders. The 2022/2023 school year was the final year of operations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
With unrelenting determination and a commitment to excellence, Buffalo Collegiate Charter School educated students in grades 4 through 12 to graduate from the college of their choice and serve as our next generation of leaders. All children, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, zip code, or home language, deserve the opportunity to receive an excellent education that allows them to access selective colleges and transform their life path as empowered and civically minded leaders. The 2022/2023 school year was the final year of operations.
$18,754 earned by the program
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $807k (−55%).
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: 2018 43% · 2019 19% · 2020 13% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Jamel Perkins
Board member/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $220k → $34.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL’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
BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 68% · 2020 40% · 2021 61% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL'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. $129k 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.
Organizations like BUFFALO COLLEGIATE 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,642 to it, the largest being CULLEN FOUNDATION ($389,125). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $728,642 in grants to BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CULLEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $389,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO COLLEGIATE 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.
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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 2018–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing