New York · Nonprofit
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,169,752 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Buffalo Urban League Inc does
Mission
To help african americans and others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic self-reliance, power, and civil rights. The league promotes economic empowerment through education and job training, housing and community development, workforce development, entrepreneurship, health, and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education, training and workforce development - in conjunction with labor departments, area businesses and employment agencies, colleges and the buffalo public school system, the league provides various services such as education, scholarships, job training, employment, job readiness, support services, literacy and career information to youth and adults to transition them into employment, college, advanced training, apprenticeships and/or military.
$3,835,373 spentof which $70,654 as grants$3,068,209 earned by the program46% of program spendingHousing and community development - as a hud certified counseling organization, the league provides first-time homebuyers and mortgage default counseling, financial capacity/literacy, emergency financial assistance for rents and mortgages, fair housing and anti-predatory lending counseling and assists families seeking apartment and housing counseling. In addition, the league provides technical assistance and low interest loans to minority and/or women owned small businesses.
$431,534 spent$648,401 earned by the program5% of program spendingFamily preservation and support services - the league provides preventive and wrap services to support families and keep them safely together. The league is an authorized foster care and adoption agency that recruits, trains and certified individuals to foster and/or adopt children. The league operates a full service center for seniors. In addition, through its community health worker program, they address the social determinants of health by facilitating access to health and wellness services as well as information and education to the community.
$4,119,403 spent$4,477,503 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,386,310.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $7.5M (+373%).
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 12% · 2022 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
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
Thomas Beauford Jr
President & CEO
Board chair
Eunice A Lewin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $176k → $6.5M.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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: $1.8M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Buffalo and Erie County). These are real filings, and they are not money BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 66% · 2019 67% · 2020 33% · 2021 40% · 2022 50% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
60% of BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.0M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,169,752 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $10,169,752 in grants to BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE 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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing