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BUFFALO NIAGARA FILM COMMISSION INC

EIN 93-4518403 BUFFALO, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2025
$559,324
Expenses 2025
$442,059

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S30
Classification
1000
Street
240 PINE RIDGE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE THE CITY OF BUFFALO AND THE WESTERN NEW YORK REGION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION, AND TO NURTURE THE GROWTH OF THE INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION INDUSTRY THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION IN THE WESTERN NEW YORK AREA.

  • BNFC ADVERTISES IN PRINT AND ONLINE MEDIA PRODUCTION GUIDES, TRADE MAGAZINES, ETC. IN ADDITION, BNFC PARTICIPATES IN INDUSTRY EVENTS TO PROMOTE WESTERN NEW YORK TO FILMMAKERS SEEKING A DIVERSE AREA TO SHOOT THEIR PROJECTS. BNFC ALSO MAINTAINS A WEBSITE, WWW.FILMBUFFALONIAGARA.COM, WHICH PROVIDES AN EXTENSIVE PHOTO LIBRARY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL INVENTORY OF OUR AREA AS WELL AS A DATABASE OF QUALIFIED CREW MEMBERS AVAILABLE FOR HIRE. BNFC PROVIDES SERVICES WHICH INCLUDE: LOCATION SCOUTING, PERMIT ASSISTANCE, FILM TAX CREDIT PROGRAM ASSISTANCE, ARRANGEMENTS TO SHOOT ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, ON-SET ASSISTANCE, SUPPLYING LISTS OF QUALIFIED SOUNDSTAGES AND OTHER VENDORS, SUPPLYING LISTS OF QUALIFIED CREW MEMBERS, AND ANY OTHER REQUESTS FROM PRODUCTION COMPANIES.

    Expenses $389,820

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Andrea Czopp

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cindy Abbott-Letro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • William Fichtner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Poloncarz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christopher Scanlon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Timothy Clark

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $138,281
    From this org
    $127,525
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,756
    Hours/week
    40
  • Patricia Buscaglia

    ASST SECRETARY/ASST TREASU

    Total calculated
    $21,792
    From this org
    $21,372
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $420
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $559,324
    Expenses
    $442,059
    Contributions
    $559,324
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $459,494
    Expenses
    $357,016
    Contributions
    $459,494
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Timothy Clark
Mailing address
1300 ELMWOOD AVENUEBUFFALO NY 14222
Website
WWW.FILMBUFFALONIAGARA.COM

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.