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BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC

EIN 22-2270540 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$3,554,268
Expenses 2024
$1,952,704

Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
786 DELAWARE AVE

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

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO SOLICIT, RECEIVE AND MAINTAIN AN ENDOWMENT FUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, INC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION, INC. IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION WHOSE PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO SOLICIT, RECEIVE AND MAINTAIN AN ENDOWMENT FUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, INC. AND TO ASSURE THE CONTINUED AVAILABILITY OF LIVE PERFORMANCE OF SYMPHONIC MUSIC BY PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS.

  • REQUIRED ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF FUND INCOME TO SUPPORT THE BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY, INC.

    Expenses $1,824,405 · Grants $1,824,405

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.

  • KAREN ARRISON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEKS SPELLMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOLLY HEJMOWSKI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS EMMERLING

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL MUNSCHAUER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN YURTCHUK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL HART

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $357,015
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $331,782
    Other
    $25,233
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $331,782 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $10,142 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $15,091 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $357,015 related

  • KEVIN JAMES

    VP OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRA

    Total calculated
    $141,355
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $117,812
    Other
    $23,543
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

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
    $3,554,268
    Expenses
    $1,952,704
    Contributions
    $1,767,605
    Grants paid
    $1,824,405
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,623,649
    Expenses
    $1,866,152
    Contributions
    $18,740
    Grants paid
    $1,754,311
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,264,552
    Expenses
    $1,740,242
    Contributions
    $361,245
    Grants paid
    $1,630,691

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
    $6,684,616
    Expenses
    $1,557,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,985,647

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,671,215
    Expenses
    $1,377,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,548,193

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,056,794
    Expenses
    $1,218,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,152,281

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,812
    Expenses
    $1,101,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,149,310

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,645,385
    Expenses
    $1,000,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,904,029

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,080,594
    Expenses
    $939,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,914,729

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,201,910
    Expenses
    $889,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,599,712

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $862,345
    Expenses
    $821,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,411,070

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,834
    Expenses
    $821,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,828,244

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $748,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,606,580

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

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 SOUNK.

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