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BUFFALO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL

EIN 20-0723492 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$25,984,538
Expenses 2024
$26,064,901

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
Street
24 AGASSIZ CIR

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.

  • ISMET MAMNOON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR DAVID BANKS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR MUSTAFA GOKCEK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KAREN WALLACE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR ONUR NACAKGEDIGI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR YASHODHARA SATCHIDANAND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR JOSEPH B POLAT

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $232,864
    From this org
    $197,340
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,524
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,340
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,951
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,573
    Filer's total
    $232,864

  • GRAHAM VANDERZANDEN

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $147,592
    From this org
    $119,897
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,695
    Hours/week
    40

  • JUSTIN BRAUN

    CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $146,760
    From this org
    $128,322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,438
    Hours/week
    40

  • GIRAY GEBES

    CHIEF DATA OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $141,932
    From this org
    $114,757
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,175
    Hours/week
    40

  • MURAT KUCUKDUGENCI

    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $153,566
    From this org
    $125,323
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,243
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $125,323
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,670
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,573
    Filer's total
    $153,566

  • MUSTAFA ERSOY

    CHIEF TALENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $159,572
    From this org
    $130,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,322
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,250
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,168
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,154
    Filer's total
    $159,572

  • KELLY WILCZAK

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $145,693
    From this org
    $132,316
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,377
    Hours/week
    40

  • ASHLEY PIAZZA

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $155,553
    From this org
    $127,459
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,094
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,459
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,886
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,208
    Filer's total
    $155,553

  • BRIANNA LANOYE

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $121,065
    From this org
    $100,025
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,040
    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 — 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
    $25,984,538
    Expenses
    $26,064,901
    Contributions
    $1,504,373
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $23,160,471
    Expenses
    $22,519,423
    Contributions
    $2,379,400
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $22,547,576
    Expenses
    $21,909,641
    Contributions
    $4,400,862
    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

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

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 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.