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THE CHILDRENS GUILD FOUNDATION INC

EIN 16-0756286 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$910,142
Expenses 2024
$1,425,774

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E500
Classification
1000
Street
726 EXCHANGE ST STE 1016

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To support and advocate for health care, research, education and therapeutic recreation for children with special needs.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To support and advocate for health care, research, education, and therapeutic recreation for children with special needs.

  • The Children's Guild Foundaton seeks to effect change, provide opportunities and promote inclusion & diversity for children with special needs and their families. The Foundation conducts this work by advocating on behalf and funding 501(c)(3) organizations within the 8 counties of Western New York that provide programs and services for these children in the areas of healthcare, research, education and therapeutic recreation. The focus in these areas is on developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, medical conditions, mental health, learning disabilities and behavioral health issues.

    Expenses $1,220,287 · Grants $937,433

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Catherine A Gura

    President

    Total calculated
    $181,919
    From this org
    $165,381
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,538
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,573
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $6,808
    Deferred
    $16,538
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $181,919

  • Daniel K Comerford

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Darci B Cramer PhD

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John H Edholm Sr through 123124

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Margaret M Zak

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan G Koessler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Renee A Filip

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wendy T Stahlka

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Colleen P Fahey Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael L Gross

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lauren E Voigt

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark D Tompkins eff 112025

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jamie Batt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $910,142
    Expenses
    $1,425,774
    Contributions
    $83,404
    Grants paid
    $937,433
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,093,487
    Expenses
    $984,624
    Contributions
    $57,839
    Grants paid
    $548,016
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $652,534
    Expenses
    $910,182
    Contributions
    $50,271
    Grants paid
    $504,064

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,008,959
    Expenses
    $1,363,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,304,095

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,365,285
    Expenses
    $692,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,072,644

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $358,520
    Expenses
    $1,017,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,163,938

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $470,948
    Expenses
    $961,196
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,382,487

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,332,110
    Expenses
    $841,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,171,751

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,332,110
    Expenses
    $841,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,171,751

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,332,110
    Expenses
    $841,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,171,751

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,838
    Expenses
    $577,068
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,521,714

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $528,578
    Expenses
    $838,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,625,450

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,911,253
    Expenses
    $548,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,564,281

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.