New York · Nonprofit
Green Options Buffalo Inc
Green Options Buffalo Inc (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,878,007 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,939,640). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $780k
What Green Options Buffalo Inc does
Mission
Promote healthy, environmentally sustainable and community-friendly transportation through advocacy, education, and initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles, civic engagement, economic vitality and improved environments within Greater Buffalo. With realistic bicycle options, we can make our communities healthier, safer, and more connected.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy Streets Initiatives create healthy, vibrant communities by making our streets safer for all.West Seneca- Orchard Park Active Mobility Plan: GObike worked with residents of the West Seneca and Orchard Park communities to develop a community informed Active Mobility Action Plan, in order to help improve safety and accessibility for all road users, regardless of their mode. East Side Healthy Streets Initiative: GObike has worked with local community organizations and neighbors to raise awareness of current transportation options and bring forward new options that prioritize safety, reliability, and accessibility. In 2025, after an extensive community engagement process, GObike implemented several quick-build "pop-up" installations that will calm traffic and make it easier to walk, bike, ride public transit, or use a wheelchair. GObike installed intersection improvements and placemaking elements( seating, bike racks, planters) across 4 different neighborhoods. GObike also planted street trees for dozens of residents in the area.
$633,602 spent$152,775 earned by the program44% of program spendingThroughout 2025, GObike operated two community workshops in Buffalo where people are able to work on their bikes for little or no cost with access to a full array of tools, hundreds of spare parts, and guidance from mechanics. Adult and teenage volunteers also gather at both locations to repair donated bikes that GObike redistributes to children and adults in need through community partners like schools, churches, and community centers.
$265,255 spent$111,596 earned by the program18% of program spendingSafety and Youth Education, Future Commuters, and Safe Cycling programs empower students through development of hands-on problem-solving and mechanical skills and access to personal transportation. Each participant receives a donated bicycle and learns how to maintain it with the help of an instructor. Through group rides, students learn road rules and safe riding practices, graduating with all the tools they need to experience the fun and independence of travel on a bicycle.
$555,399 spent$14,596 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,454,256.
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 2018 to 2019, from $327k to $802k (+145%).
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 4% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 47% · 2023 57% · 2024 67% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Green Options Buffalo Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Justin Booth
Executive Director
Board chair
Nicole Komin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $109k → $2.9M.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Green Options Buffalo 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Green Options Buffalo Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Green Options Buffalo Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 51% · 2019 45% · 2020 50% · 2021 48% · 2022 32% · 2023 97% — 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
50% of Green Options Buffalo Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
85% of Green Options Buffalo 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. $632k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Green Options Buffalo Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Green Options Buffalo 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 Green Options Buffalo 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 Green Options Buffalo Inc?
- Green Options Buffalo Inc (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,878,007 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,939,640). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Green Options Buffalo Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,878,007 in grants to Green Options Buffalo Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Green Options Buffalo Inc?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,939,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Green Options Buffalo 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 15 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