New York · Nonprofit
VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC
VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,324 to it, the largest being Wildermuth Memorial Foundation ($396,933). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Buffalo Bills Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Independent Health Association Incshared funderslocal
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $87k → $64k.
From the IRS filings of VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK 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
VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 50% · 2019 66% · 2020 89% · 2021 80% · 2022 60% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
83% of VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK 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. 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Buffalo Bills Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 153 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Health Association Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you
- Variety-The Childrens Charity of the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Children's Guild Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Grigg-Lewis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard S Shineman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Chautauqua Community Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mather Fund Richard Mather Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Employees' Federated Community Serviceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK 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.
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 VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC?
- VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $571,324 to it, the largest being Wildermuth Memorial Foundation ($396,933). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $571,324 in grants to VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC?
- Wildermuth Memorial Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $396,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO 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.
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 6funders 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