Colorado · Nonprofit
BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC
BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,760 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,560). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $349k
What Buffalo Creek Gun Club Inc does
Mission
To teach the public safe firearms handling.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public Shooter's Range Usage. 327 Public Shooters used our range during 2022, again, due to being closed for a significant portion of 2022 due to the Covid-19 Virus. we normally have several hundred Public Shooters each year. we expect approximately 350 Public Shooters for 2023.
$9,186 spent43% of program spendingCompetition Matches. The Covid-19 Virus was responsible for cancelling many f our normal 35 - 40 matches. We held 25 matches during 2022 and had 176 shooters in attendance. For 2023 we expect approximately 360 shooters assuming Covid-19 is less intrusive.
$12,428 spent57% of program spendingNRA range Safety Officer Course. We trained 0 new Range Safety Officers in 2022 due to being closed a significant portion of 2022. For the upcoming year of 2023, we hope to train40 new NRA Range Safety Officers, assuming Covid-19 does not keep our range shout down.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,614.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $376k to $349k (−7%).
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.
72% of BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CREEK GUN CLUB INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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
57% of BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC's revenue fell 86% between 2019 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC?
- BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,760 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,560). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $46,760 in grants to BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO CREEK GUN CLUB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 2 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