New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC
BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,775 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET L WENDT FOUNDATION ($475,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cullen Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Children's Foundation of Erie County Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Frank G Raichle Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 23% · 2020 78% · 2021 43% · 2022 8% · 2023 25% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $105k.
2 of 10 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 HERITAGE CAROUSEL 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 HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 66% · 2022 65% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL 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. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cullen Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Foundation of Erie County Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Frank G Raichle Foundationlocalportfolio matchNY · funds 93 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Buffalo and Erie Countyshared funderslocalNY · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 146 organizations near you
- Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edward H Butler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fatta Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Guild Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Cullen Foundation of Western New York Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- United Way of Greater Niagara Incshared fundersNY · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC?
- BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,336,775 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET L WENDT FOUNDATION ($475,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,336,775 in grants to BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC?
- THE MARGARET L WENDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL 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.
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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing