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OUR CITY BUFFALO INC

OUR CITY BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$107k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$108k
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
0/3 repeat funders

Against its field

OUR CITY BUFFALO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1

From the IRS filings of OUR CITY 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

OUR CITY BUFFALO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of OUR CITY BUFFALO INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 270 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like OUR CITY BUFFALO INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Our City Action Buffalo Inc88%A Taste of Buffalo Inc79%African Heritage Economic Initiative79%Conor J Casey Foundation Inc79%Art Action Foundation Inc78%School of Management Alumni Association State University of Ny at Buffalo78%Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope78%Our Ability Alliance Inc78%

Nationally

Our City Action Buffalo Inc88%Better York80%A Taste of Buffalo Inc79%African Heritage Economic Initiative79%Conor J Casey Foundation Inc79%The Adventures for the Mind Foundation Inc79%Art Action Foundation Inc78%Office of New Americans of Miami-Dade Inc78%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR CITY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds OUR CITY BUFFALO INC?
OUR CITY BUFFALO INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OUR CITY BUFFALO INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $107,500 in grants to OUR CITY BUFFALO INC.
Who is the largest funder of OUR CITY BUFFALO INC?
ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OUR CITY 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing