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BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC

BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,995 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS ($125,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$126k
Net assets
$6.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Buffalo Teachers Federation Inc does

Mission

The purpose of the buffalo teacher federation is to promote and foster loyalty to the highest ideals in education and to aid in bringing about the realization of these ideals. The federation's objective is to maintain the teaching profession by upholding a high standard of qualifications for entrance into the profession; and to improve the material welfare and to raise the professional efficiency of the teachers, and thus to promote the welfare of the public schools; and to awaken in the public mind a sense of significance of the teaching profession.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Buffalo teachers federation, inc. Is the bargaining unit for the approximately 3,800 teachers employed by the city of buffalo board of education.

    $3,158,853 spent$3,869,016 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,158,853.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.8M) Expenses 96 ($3.5M) Net assets 151 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 107 ($3.8M) Expenses 99 ($3.6M) Net assets 125 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 106 ($3.8M) Expenses 101 ($3.7M) Net assets 131 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 104 ($3.7M) Expenses 99 ($3.7M) Net assets 170 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 96 ($3.4M) Expenses 102 ($3.8M) Net assets 189 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 117 ($4.2M) Expenses 99 ($3.6M) Net assets 230 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 128 ($4.6M) Expenses 95 ($3.5M) Net assets 312 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (95)Net assets (312)

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 $6.0M to $7.2M (+21%).

$4.2M
$4.3M
$4.4M
$5.2M
$5.9M
$5.5M
$6.0M
$7.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$108k
’17
$225k
’18
$169k
’19
$66k
’20
$60k
’21
−$335k
’22
$554k
’23
$1.1M
’24
3.6
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed2727272726262732
Joined·+8+0+5+0+4+13+10
No longer listed·80514125
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION 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.

Where its funders are

100% of BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

30
board members
90%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Buffalo Teacher Federation Supplemental Benefit Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC?
BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,995 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS ($125,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $125,995 in grants to BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION INC?
NEW YORK STATE UNITED TEACHERS is the largest funder on record, with $125,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUFFALO TEACHERS FEDERATION 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.

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 1 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