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The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc

The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,215,537 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($618,673). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2025
27
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
15/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 109 ($2.8M) Expenses 113 ($2.8M) Net assets 96 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 120 ($3.1M) Expenses 125 ($3.1M) Net assets 84 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 119 ($3.0M) Expenses 116 ($2.9M) Net assets 99 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 134 ($3.4M) Expenses 109 ($2.7M) Net assets 153 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 107 ($2.7M) Expenses 97 ($2.4M) Net assets 128 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 115 ($2.9M) Expenses 93 ($2.3M) Net assets 224 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 70 ($1.8M) Expenses 107 ($2.7M) Net assets 176 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 136 ($3.5M) Expenses 124 ($3.1M) Net assets 201 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (124)Net assets (201)Peer revenue range

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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2019 73% · 2020 70% · 2021 59% · 2022 75% · 2023 43% · 2024 29% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
17
$52k
18
$64k
19
$141k
20
$702k
21
$306k
22
$613k
23
$886k
24
$358k
25
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $244k → $214k.

5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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

The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

71% 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 Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc.

28%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 26%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

32% of The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
PA
CT
TN
GA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $493k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

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 27 funders put you typical among the 400 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 The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns 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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 1 related entity

  • The Boys and Girls Club of the Northtowns Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns 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 The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc?
The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,215,537 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ($618,673). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,215,537 in grants to The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc?
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $618,673 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27funders 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