New York · Nonprofit
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,598,218 to it, the largest being TOWER FAMILY FUND INC ($1,438,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Burchfield Penney Art Center does
Mission
To operate a museum dedicated to the art and vision of charles e. Burchfield and distinguished artists of buffalo, niagara, and western new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To collect, conserve, exhibit, and interpret all media illustrating and documenting the career of charles e. Burchfield and other works by significant artists who live or have practiced in western new york.
$1,447,426 spent$409,252 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,447,426.
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 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $17M (−13%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% · 2024 8% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Scott Propeack
Executive director
Board chair
Janet Wetter
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $294k → $831k.
9 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 51% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 27% — 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
49% of BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
98% of BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER'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. $1.2M 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
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$29k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Buffalo State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: 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 BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER?
- BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,598,218 to it, the largest being TOWER FAMILY FUND INC ($1,438,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,598,218 in grants to BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER?
- TOWER FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,438,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER 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 60 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