New York · Nonprofit
Western New York Peace Center Inc
Western New York Peace Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,291 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($14,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Western New York Peace Center Inc does
Mission
The WNY Peace Center provides people in WNY with opportunities to learn about and act constructively on a variety of issues related to peace, human rights, and social justice, while simultaneously working towards violence prevention in the WNY area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Facilitation of workshops (e.g. PeaceJam, Nonviolence, Advocacy, etc.) The WNY Peace Center offers numerous workshops including communication, cooperation, nonviolence, diversity and social justice. Workshops were provided to adolescents and adults at community centers, in schools, and at the Erie County Secured Youth Detention Facility.
$4,939 spent100% of program spendingCamp Peaceprints- a collaborative alternative summer camp for youth aged 8 to 13 years, where they learn about social and environmental justice, and are exposed to techniques of nonviolence and peaceful conflict resolution. Youth assistants ages 14 and up also learn a lot. Many of the youth served by the WNY Peace Center over the two-week period were more vulnerable - oppressed, refugees, etc. - with some considered at-risk of committing violence.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,939.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $98k to $70k (−28%).
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.
88% of Western New York Peace Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Russell Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $7k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Western New York Peace Center 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
Western New York Peace Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 Western New York Peace Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
59% of Western New York Peace Center Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
Western New York Peace Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Western New York Peace Center 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Western New York Peace Center Inc?
- Western New York Peace Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,291 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($14,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Western New York Peace Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,291 in grants to Western New York Peace Center Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western New York Peace Center Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western New York Peace Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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