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BESTSELF FOUNDATION INC

EIN 16-1416158 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$1,329,975
Expenses 2024
$1,406,352

Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P34J
Classification
1000
Street
899 MAIN ST

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 · 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.

  • CHRISTINE BARNABY

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BONNIE CYWINSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARK GAULIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ANNETTE SMITH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • NEAL MCMULLEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JOHN MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AMY POPADICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • BEVERLY ROBINSON-SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KATE SCHRUM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DOROTHY SHULDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • HELEN TEDEROUS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MATHEW WHITEHEAD

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ELLEN BIELER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JOSEPH DISTASIO

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $339,698
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $314,227
    Other
    $25,471
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $307,636 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $5,784 related
    Other
    $0 + $807 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $9,767 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $15,704 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $339,698 related
  • ELIZABETH WOIKE

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $475,932
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $447,402
    Other
    $28,530
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $439,991 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $6,655 related
    Other
    $0 + $756 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,660 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $14,870 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $475,932 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 — 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
    $1,329,975
    Expenses
    $1,406,352
    Contributions
    $1,244,394
    Grants paid
    $1,095,913
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,484,485
    Expenses
    $1,709,487
    Contributions
    $1,376,924
    Grants paid
    $1,293,617
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,082,314
    Expenses
    $1,016,256
    Contributions
    $2,017,007
    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.

Grants made

  • 2023 THE GRANT/ASSISTANCE IWAS MADE TO BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC. THAT PROVIDED INNOVATIVE, EVIDENCED BASED, ACCESSIBLE, AND FAMILY FOCUSED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES TO PROMOTE, HEALTH, HOPE, RECOVERY, AND ENHANCED QUALITY OF LIFE.

  • 2024 THE GRANT/ASSISTANCE IWAS MADE TO BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC. THAT PROVIDED INNOVATIVE, EVIDENCED BASED, ACCESSIBLE, AND FAMILY FOCUSED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES TO PROMOTE, HEALTH, HOPE, RECOVERY, AND ENHANCED QUALITY OF LIFE.

Where these grants went next →

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.

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 10 September 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.