New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,880 to it, the largest being THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inclocalportfolio match
- United Way of Buffalo and Erie Countyshared funderslocal
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio 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.
85% of BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $51k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS’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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 84% · 2023 49% — 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
100% of BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS'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. $39k 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Buffalo and Erie Countyshared funderslocalNY · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 146 organizations near you
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fatta Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CNY Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wood Dock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
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.
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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS: 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 SOCIETY OF ARTISTS?
- BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,880 to it, the largest being THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $120,880 in grants to BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS?
- THE JOHN R OISHEI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 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 5funders 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