- Revenue 2023
- $661,683
- Expenses 2023
- $639,510
Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- O50
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- PO BOX 750
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 · 2023
Mission
A FORCE FOR GOOD IN UNDER-RESOURCED BUFFALO NEIGHBORHOODS, LOVING & EMPOWERING CHILDREN, TEENS & THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH OUR FOUR GUIDING PRIORITIES: LITERACY, THE ARTS, ADVOCACY, AND TRANSFORMATION.
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VARIOUS AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE HOMEWORK CLUB A SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WHERE CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED THROUGH CREATIVE ENRICHMENT, ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND LITERACY INTERVENTION. THERE ARE PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN GRADES 1 THROUGH 5 JUNIOR CLUB - FOR GRADES 6 THROUGH 8 AND A SENIOR CLUB FOR CHILDREN GRADES 9 THROUGH 12.MENTORING FOR CHILDREN ON A DAILY BASIS THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS, FOCUS ON STUDY SKILLS, AND SUPPORT FOR THE CHILDREN TO LIVE THEIR FAITH.TEEN EMPOWERMENT - SUPERVISED WORK EXPERIENCE FOR TEENS AS HOMEWORK CLUB ASSISTANTS, FOCUSING ON PUNCTUALITY, RESPONSIBILITY, TUTORING TECHNIQUES AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
Expenses $564,539 · Revenue $2,456
As filed on the 2023 return.
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.
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MARGARITA SANCHEZ
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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CYNTHIA COX
BOARD MEMBER/CHAIR (TO 3/16/23)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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NANCY KLEIN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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OLIVIA BAGIA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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JOANNE BENDER
BOARD MEMBER/TREASURER/INTERM CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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KAYLA BOWDEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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BARBARA BONO
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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KAREN CUMMINGS
BOARD MEMBER/SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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REBECCA SCHAEFFER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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DOUG ZSCHIEGNER
BOARD MEMBER (TO 10/31/23)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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RHONDA SAUNDERS
BOARD MEMBER (BEGAN 5/1/23)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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DIANN TAKENS
BOARD MEMBER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $103,039
- From this org
- $88,200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,839
- Hours/week
- 40
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $661,683
- Expenses
- $639,510
- Contributions
- $659,227
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $651,333
- Expenses
- $577,915
- Contributions
- $647,687
- 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.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $687,891
- Expenses
- $492,262
- Assets (EOY)
- $648,415
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $703,415
- Expenses
- $483,365
- Assets (EOY)
- $445,021
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $473,011
- Expenses
- $463,625
- Assets (EOY)
- $227,882
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $463,419
- Expenses
- $433,771
- Assets (EOY)
- $212,929
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $405,962
- Expenses
- $377,558
- Assets (EOY)
- $180,266
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $398,064
- Expenses
- $333,996
- Assets (EOY)
- $152,570
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $348,264
- Expenses
- $308,366
- Assets (EOY)
- $86,283
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $318,753
- Expenses
- $296,141
- Assets (EOY)
- $119,902
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.
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
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2022 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR BUFFALO'S VULNERABLE YOUTH DURING EXTENDED CRISIS; SPORT SAMPLING AT PEACE; SUPPORT FOR COVID 19 COMEBACK THROUGH ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND LITERACY FOR ALL PROGRAMS
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2023 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
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2024 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
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2022 SERVE THE YOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY IN VARIOUS WAYS.
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2022 PROGRAM FUNDING
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2024 PROGRAM FUNDING
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2023 PROGRAM FUNDING
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2022 ACTION GRANT FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT
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$7,200
2022 EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION AND POST-HIGH SCHOOL SUPPORT
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.