New York · Nonprofit
THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO
THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,106 to it, the largest being THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $23k
What The Big Easy in Buffalo does
Mission
Connecting louisiana and buffalo artists and audiences
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providing local professional and student musicians the opportunity to learn from and perform with louisiana artists.
$84,557 spent100% of program spendingPresenting performers from louisiana to local audiences through fee and low cost concerts.
Sharing items of interest related to louisiana music and culture in western new york through our wedsite and social media.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,557.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $23k (+17%).
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.
42% of THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO’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
THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO
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.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO?
- THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,106 to it, the largest being THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,106 in grants to THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO?
- THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BIG EASY IN BUFFALO 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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