BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

EIN 16-6000178 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024: $8,189,097
Expenses 2024: $7,427,942

Program services were 66.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A560
Classification: 2000
Street: 1020 HUMBOLDT PARKWAY

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.

KEITH LUKASIK

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JESSICA COPELAND

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
MATTHEW FRANK

ASSISTANT TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JOSEPH LOMBARDO

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
GARY SIDDALL

PRESIDENT & CEO

Total calculated

$227,850

From this org

$216,765

From related orgs

$0

Other

$11,085

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$188,466

Bonus

$28,299

Other

$0

Deferred

$0

Nontaxable benefits

$11,085

Filer's total

$227,850
ANNE ALLEN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ANN BISANTZ

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
LAURIE COLLINS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
LAURIE DANN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
RALPH ELBERT

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
MATT FAMIGLIETTI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JOHN GERKEN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
KATHY HOELSCHER GLIECO

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
CYNTHIA HOOVER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
CAROLYN HOYT STEVENS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
OLUWOLE MCFOY PE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
MONICA MILES PHD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
SUSAN NOWICKI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
BENJAMIN PEARSON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
STEVE PERRIGO

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JENAE PITTS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
SAURIN POPAT

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JIM SEGARRA

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
RICK SMITH III

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
MUHAMMED SUMBUNDU

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5

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, 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

$8,189,097

Expenses

$7,427,942

Contributions

$4,481,925

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$6,367,674

Expenses

$6,470,245

Contributions

$3,020,294

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$5,462,221

Expenses

$6,401,804

Contributions

$2,463,636

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$8,189,097	$7,427,942	$4,481,925	$0
2023	$6,367,674	$6,470,245	$3,020,294	$0
2022	$5,462,221	$6,401,804	$2,463,636	$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

2021 · 990

Revenue

$7,073,901

Expenses

$6,362,091

Assets (EOY)

$25,139,318
2020 · 990

Revenue

$5,760,811

Expenses

$4,946,256

Assets (EOY)

$29,536,038
2019 · 990

Revenue

$4,052,411

Expenses

$4,792,005

Assets (EOY)

$26,845,635
2018 · 990

Revenue

$5,804,861

Expenses

$5,582,499

Assets (EOY)

$26,544,184
2017 · 990

Revenue

$8,095,960

Expenses

$4,938,534

Assets (EOY)

$26,064,197
2017 · 990

Revenue

$8,095,960

Expenses

$4,938,534

Assets (EOY)

$26,064,197
2016 · 990

Revenue

$5,314,756

Expenses

$4,294,249

Assets (EOY)

$22,933,185
2015 · 990

Revenue

$4,499,401

Expenses

$3,963,770

Assets (EOY)

$20,803,115
2014 · 990

Revenue

$5,489,939

Expenses

$4,278,438

Assets (EOY)

$19,585,052
2013 · 990

Revenue

$6,190,441

Expenses

$4,640,614

Assets (EOY)

$19,587,840

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$7,073,901	$6,362,091	$25,139,318
2020	990	$5,760,811	$4,946,256	$29,536,038
2019	990	$4,052,411	$4,792,005	$26,845,635
2018	990	$5,804,861	$5,582,499	$26,544,184
2017	990	$8,095,960	$4,938,534	$26,064,197
2017	990	$8,095,960	$4,938,534	$26,064,197
2016	990	$5,314,756	$4,294,249	$22,933,185
2015	990	$4,499,401	$3,963,770	$20,803,115
2014	990	$5,489,939	$4,278,438	$19,585,052
2013	990	$6,190,441	$4,640,614	$19,587,840

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

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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$787,654

2022 UNRESTRICTED USE; RESTRICTED FOR PERMANENT ENDOWMENT; ANNUAL SUPPORT; FOR TIFFT NATURE PRESERVE INCLUSIVE WAYFINDING AND ENV EDUC PROG; BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE; DECOLONIZATION AT THE BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES; SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONAL SUPPORT; IN MEMORY OF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$541,625

2024 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$326,021

2023 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

$60,594

2024 RESTORE TIFFT CANAL FOR GREAT LAKES WILDLIFE
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES

$25,250

2022 GENERAL PURPOSES
INDEPENDENT HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC

$22,999

2024 SPONSORSHIP FOR HEALTHY LIVING
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$20,372

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$19,944

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

$15,598

2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$10,500

2022 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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