New York · Nonprofit
LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC
LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,364 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($394,943). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $756k
- Net assets
- $502k
What Literacy New York Buffalo-Niagara Inc does
Mission
We develop literacy skills by providing free tutoring in erie and niagara counties through engagement and training of diverse community volunteers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program services: all expenditures are made essentially for advancing the agency's sole function of providing education services to enhance the literacy skills of adults and children. During the 2023-2024 program year, 155 volunteers helped provide more than 7,000 hours of instruction and other volunteer work. Our agency recruited and trained 30 new volunteers. In total, our agency served 180 students.
$539,795 spent$660 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $539,795.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $372k to $466k (+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: 2017 79% · 2018 76% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 59% · 2022 57% · 2023 62% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Tara Schafer
Executive director
Board chair
Justine David
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $46k → $192k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LITERACY NEW YORK 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 46% · 2019 58% · 2020 53% · 2021 66% · 2022 56% · 2023 52% — 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
50% of LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
77% of LITERACY NEW YORK 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. $189k 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.
Organizations like LITERACY NEW YORK 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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LITERACY NEW YORK 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 LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC?
- LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,364 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($394,943). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $756,364 in grants to LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY NEW YORK BUFFALO-NIAGARA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $394,943 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY NEW YORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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