New York · Nonprofit
INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC
INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304,331 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ($304,331). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Invest Buffalo Niagara Inc does
Mission
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. To support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses, universities, nonprofit organizations and elected officials to deliver a unified response to regional economic development opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Invest buffalo niagara helps improve the economic and community vitality of the buffalo-niagara region through the attraction of the new investment and job creation opportunities from outside the region, as well as through local job retention and growth.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $1.7M to $2.1M (+25%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 A Kucharski
President & CEO
Board chair
Kenneth Kujawa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $35k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA 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 INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA 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. 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
INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA 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 INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC?
- INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $304,331 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ($304,331). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $304,331 in grants to INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA INC?
- INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $304,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVEST BUFFALO NIAGARA 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 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