New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC
BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,439 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($43,346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Buffalo Niagara Partnership Inc does
Mission
By mobilizing members and strategic partners around common goals, the partnership grows private investment and jobs in buffalo niagara through advocacy, business development, and convening.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The partnership advocates locally, in albany, and in washington, d.c. To improve the area's business climate and competitiveness through policies and resource allocations explicitly intended to help stimulate private sector investment and job growth in the buffalo niagara region.
The partnership provides direct support to individual members and other employers in the region, as well as broader industry wide initiatives for target industry clusters, to improve their capacity to succeed.
The partnership provides a wide range of initiatives for members and other employers in the region to make connections to improve their 'bottom lines'.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.9M to $4.0M (+39%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $18k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Buffalo Niagara Partnership Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP 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 NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Business Benefits LLC · disregarded
- Buffalo Niagara Partnership Foundation · exempt
- Committee for Economic Growth · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC?
- BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,439 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($43,346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $53,439 in grants to BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC?
- NORTHWEST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP 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.
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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 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