New York · Nonprofit
HOSPICE BUFFALO INC
HOSPICE BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,411 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($216,897). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $683k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Hospice Buffalo Inc does
Mission
For individuals with life-limiting illnesses that extends to their families and those acting as caregivers. Our purpose is to help people maintain dignity and control over their own lives and care. Our goal is to enhance individual's quality of life through effective pain and symptom management. We provide comprehensive physical, emotional, social, and spiritual care that is tailored to the individual's and family's needs and wishes. These services are provided by an interdisciplinary team of compassionate experts led by a physician and includes nurses, social workers, aides, spiritual care counselors, music, art, and massage therapists, and bereavement counselors. We acknowledge and embrace religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity. In addition to clinical care we also provide medical supplies, equipment, physical, occupational and speech therapies related to the individual's primary diagnosis. Services are provided in whatever location the individual calls home. Hospice services are covered by medicare, medicaid, and most private insurance plans. Hospice buffalo is committed to providing services in the community, so no one is denied care due to inability to pay.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hospice buffalo, inc. Service offerings are provided in the patient's home, nursing homes and hospice's own inpatient unit; services include nursing, social work, home health aide, spiritual care and bereavement primarily funded through medicare. Additional value added services, which are funded by the hospice foundation of wny, inc., include music, art and massage therapy and physician compliment, which covers the pharmacy and dme, supplies costs associated with the terminal diagnosis.
$37,252,166 spent$36,913,352 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,252,166.
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 $15M to $6.7M (−56%).
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: 2020 15% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of HOSPICE BUFFALO 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. 5 of the last 8 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
Christopher Kerr Md
President/cmo/CEO
Board chair
Ryan M Zebro
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $26k → $106k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HOSPICE BUFFALO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HOSPICE BUFFALO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
HOSPICE BUFFALO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 HOSPICE BUFFALO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 52% · 2020 57% · 2021 22% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% — 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
46% of HOSPICE 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
67% of HOSPICE BUFFALO 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 $227k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HOSPICE BUFFALO INC receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $683k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HOSPICE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 6 related entities
- Palliative Care Institute Inc · exempt
- Hospice Foundation Inc · exempt
- Kresge Residence Inc · exempt
- Life Transitions Center Inc · exempt
- Saunders Properties of Wny Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC?
- HOSPICE BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $683,411 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($216,897). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOSPICE BUFFALO INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $683,411 in grants to HOSPICE BUFFALO INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOSPICE BUFFALO INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $216,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOSPICE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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