New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,467 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ($240,501). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Buffalo Niagara Partnership Foundation does
Mission
The Buffalo Niagara Partnership Foundation is a vehicle for the initiations and promotion of key economic development projects in the buffalo area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Initiation and promotion of key economic development projects in the buffalo area including related economic and government research, urban planning, and promotion of the buffalo niagara region.
$144,419 spentof which $144,419 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $144,419.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $710k to $1.3M (+81%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dottie Gallagher
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Thomas Emmerling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $78k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $621k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION’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 PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 74% · 2020 98% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 44% — 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
43% of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION'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. $55k 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 NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Buffalo Niagara Partnership Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,467 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ($240,501). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $532,467 in grants to BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION 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 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