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BRASS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

EIN 87-3790352 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,565,016
Expenses 2024
$2,709,079

Program services were 89.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B12
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.

  • MUSTAFA GOKCEK PHD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • TOLGA HAYALI PHD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SELCUK SEDEMIRCI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DR JOSEPH POLAT

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $232,864
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $197,340
    Other
    $35,524
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

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

  • MURAT KUCUKDUGENCI

    CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $153,566
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $125,323
    Other
    $28,243
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

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

  • JUSTIN BRAUN

    CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $146,760
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $128,322
    Other
    $18,438
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

  • MUSTAFA ERSOY

    CHIEF TALENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $159,572
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $130,250
    Other
    $29,322
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

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

  • GRAHAM VANDERZANDEN

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $147,592
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $119,897
    Other
    $27,695
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 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 — 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
    $2,565,016
    Expenses
    $2,709,079
    Contributions
    $200,000
    Grants paid
    $450,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,529,396
    Expenses
    $2,077,705
    Contributions
    $440,000
    Grants paid
    $430,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $21,313,261
    Expenses
    $1,278,760
    Contributions
    $1,250,000
    Grants paid
    $740,000

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

Where these grants went next →

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.