New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO PREP INC
BUFFALO PREP INC (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,716,623 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($2,125,130). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Buffalo Prep Inc does
Mission
Buffalo prep promotes educational access and opportunity by delivering rigorous and enriching programming for students throughout western new york. We strive to nurture our scholars' brilliance while empowering them to engage civically as their authentic selves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Middle school prep (msp) supports post-5th and -6th grade motivated scholars across western new york with accelerated educational enrichment. Msp is an engaging, five-week summer program, during the crucial middle school years, that keeps scholars engaged through a culturally relevant, fun, and stimulating learning environment. This program nurtures a love of learning, cultivates peer-to-peer connection, and prepares scholars for success in their educational aspirations. It takes place at nichols middle school.
$354,176 spent$34,679 earned by the program18% of program spendingHigh school prep is an intensive, 14-month program that prepares scholars for acceptance to and success at top independent, catholic, charter, and criteria-based public high schools and higher education. This nationally recognized, culturally relevant program takes place at the university at buffalo south campus the summers before and after 8th grade, as well as two nights per week and on saturdays during the 8th grade academic year.
$484,579 spent24% of program spendingRising to distinction - created in partnership with the oishei foundation to provide academic support and college readiness preparation for underrepresented, talented youth. An rtd scholar must attend one of our partner high schools.
$373,472 spent18% of program spendingPrep scholars academyprep scholars academy (psa) is a neighborhood-based culturally relevant academic program designed to help scholars excel throughout middle school and prepare them for high school. This exciting, engaging, and active learning program strives to help scholars transition into and complete high school by providing academic preparation, as well as scholar and family support. Psa takes place in the heart of the west side at d'youville university; it gives preference to hispanic/latino scholars and offers bilingual instruction.alumni prep final: alumni prep supports buffalo prep graduates as they navigate their post-secondary journey and career placement. It provides access to career exploration and development services, leadership and enrichment workshops, scholarship assistance, social-emotional support, and networking and mentoring opportunities.readireadi program is an internationally recognized series of interactive workshops, trainings, and presentations to promote education and racial equity throughout our community.scholarshipsfor scholars in college to be used towards their tuition, books, rent, and technology to help them be successful in college. Fuel fund…
$811,194 spentof which $137,886 as grants40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,023,421.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.9M to $5.0M (+29%).
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $388k → $1.3M.
11 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PREP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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 PREP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 PREP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 50% · 2019 39% · 2020 53% · 2021 28% · 2022 46% · 2023 26% — 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 PREP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
91% of BUFFALO PREP 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. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PREP INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 PREP 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 PREP INC?
- BUFFALO PREP INC (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,716,623 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($2,125,130). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO PREP INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $8,716,623 in grants to BUFFALO PREP INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO PREP INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,125,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO PREP 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 58 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