New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE
BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $589k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $348k
What Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village does
Mission
To instill, educate, and cultivate in a public audience an informed appreciation of the american past and its impact on current lifestyles, culture, and historical development of the town of amherst, including the village of williamsville. Additionally, bnhv's mission, programs, and exhibits focus on presenting the history of agriculture and rural community in western new york, with an emphasis on the story of amherst.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village maintains a 35-acre campus and our historic village contains ten restored historic buildings built during the 19th century allowing visitors to experience what life was like in the buffalo niagara region during an earlier era. The indoor museum features rotating exhibits, the amherst library and reading room, and a collection of 40,000+ artifacts.
$408,868 spent$69,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $408,868.
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 2023 to 2024, from $775k to $513k (−34%).
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 68% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 88% · 2021 83% · 2022 82% · 2023 74% · 2024 80% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Carrie Stiver
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750 → $5k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE’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 NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
92% of BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE'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. $45k 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
BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE: 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 NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE?
- BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $107,000 in grants to BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO NIAGARA HERITAGE VILLAGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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