New York · Nonprofit
WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC
WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,798 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($96,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Western Ny Book Arts Collaborative Inc does
Mission
To promote, encourage and develop printing and book related arts through education and access for individual artists and underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To promote, encourage and develop printing and book related arts through education and access for individual artists and underserved communities. Through active programs such as lectures, workshops and exhibitions, all facets of the printed word and image - printmaking, papermaking, illlustration, design, writing and binding can be explored and made accessible to the public as viewer and participant.
$210,991 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $210,991.
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 2019 to 2020, from $481k to $578k (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 52% · 2021 40% · 2022 24% · 2023 37% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $24k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE 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 NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 82% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 75% · 2023 67% — 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
25% of WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
53% of WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE 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 $84k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $181k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE 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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,798 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($96,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $180,798 in grants to WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN NY BOOK ARTS COLLABORATIVE 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 9 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