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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,827 to it, the largest being FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($1,104,767). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$2.7M
16/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Society of St Vincent de Paul of Buffalo & Western New York Inc does

Mission

Serving the needy of western new york. These services include a dining room and discount store.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Dining room - the organization operates a dining room to provide meals for those less fortunate.

    $478,626 spent
    22% of program spending
  2. Discount store- provides reconditioned clothing and household items at little or no cost to those in need.

    $552,973 spent$414,385 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  3. Warehouse- collection and sorting of used clothing and other items to be distributed or recycled.

    $506,985 spent$386,852 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $627,630 spent$678,158 earned by the program
    29% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,166,214.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 164 ($2.7M) Expenses 102 ($1.9M) Net assets 145 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.7M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 137 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 91 ($1.5M) Expenses 96 ($1.8M) Net assets 124 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 116 ($1.9M) Expenses 92 ($1.7M) Net assets 144 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 123 ($2.1M) Expenses 106 ($2.0M) Net assets 129 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 144 ($2.4M) Expenses 124 ($2.3M) Net assets 141 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 168 ($2.8M) Expenses 159 ($3.0M) Net assets 138 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 175 ($2.9M) Expenses 139 ($2.6M) Net assets 145 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (139)Net assets (145)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+34%).

$2.1M
$2.8M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$213k
’17
$822k
’18
−$159k
’19
−$295k
’20
$208k
’21
$67k
’22
$74k
’23
−$182k
’24
$315k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Mark Zirnheld

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171617181819171717
Joined·+1+1+4+0+1+6+1+3
No longer listed·20300813
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $125k → $211k.

3 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC.

49%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 89% · 2020 57% · 2021 71% · 2022 77% · 2023 57% — 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

42% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

91% of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 51 related entities

  • Ascension - Batavia · exempt
  • Bishop Timon - Buffalo · exempt
  • Blessed St John Paul II - Lakeview · exempt
  • Christ the King - Buffalo · exempt
  • Divine Mercy - Niagara Falls · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC?
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,240,827 to it, the largest being FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ($1,104,767). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,240,827 in grants to SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC?
FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,104,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK 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 32 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