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SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC

EIN 46-2867677 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2023
$53,004,184
Expenses 2023
$19,664,688

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
Classification
1000
Street
1166 JEFFERSON AVE STE A

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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BETSY CONSTANTINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANCISCO M VASQUEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRETCHEN GEITTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JACK WALSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATIE SCHNEIDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KENDRA BRIM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KENYA K HOBBS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARSHA SULLIVAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATT CONNORS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MELISSA BAUMGART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL J EDBAUER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHELLE-MARIE GANT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TEMARA CROSS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TRINA BURRUSS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • UMESH BABARIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL GISEL

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BRIGID DOHERTY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DAPHNE ROSS

    CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $144,875
    From this org
    $134,417
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,458
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAVID RUST

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $310,126
    From this org
    $282,937
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,189
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $282,837
    Bonus
    $100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,524
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,665
    Filer's total
    $310,126

  • LAURA DELUCA

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $178,177
    From this org
    $163,997
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,180
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,197
    Bonus
    $7,800
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,330
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,850
    Filer's total
    $178,177

  • STEPHEN SWIFT

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • YVONNE MINOR RAGAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • AMANDA PAUL

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL-BASED SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $140,653
    From this org
    $120,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,619
    Hours/week
    40

  • BETSY BEHREND

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $122,884
    From this org
    $102,808
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,076
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHRISTOPHER LEE

    DATA DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,559
    From this org
    $107,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,846
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $53,004,184
    Expenses
    $19,664,688
    Contributions
    $52,989,198
    Grants paid
    $4,135,744
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,631,405
    Expenses
    $13,856,857
    Contributions
    $13,631,405
    Grants paid
    $1,025,092

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.