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OPEN BUFFALO INC

EIN 47-5317696 BUFFALO, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,374,894
Expenses 2024
$1,868,952

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
1327 JEFFERSON AVE UPPER

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

Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free from discrimination and poverty.

Activities or mission (Part I)

See Schedule O for the Organization's mission.Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free from discrimination and poverty.

  • Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free from discrimination and poverty.

    Expenses $1,403,508 · Grants $332,536 · Revenue $138,604

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.

  • Lamont Williams

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tristin Salter

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Danielle Johnson PhD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zeneta Everhart

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darryl Gaines

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Arthur Hall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gina Paigen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Talia Rodriguez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Radworth Max Anderson

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $88,814
    From this org
    $88,814
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Franchelle Parker

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $102,950
    From this org
    $102,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,374,894
    Expenses
    $1,868,952
    Contributions
    $3,242,349
    Grants paid
    $332,536
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,532,638
    Expenses
    $1,611,321
    Contributions
    $1,374,860
    Grants paid
    $235,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,284,084
    Expenses
    $1,130,369
    Contributions
    $1,148,076
    Grants paid
    $240,000

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $646,593
    Expenses
    $638,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $545,999

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $945,743
    Expenses
    $941,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $642,226

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,070,493
    Expenses
    $860,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $427,174

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,006,497
    Expenses
    $1,002,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $360,267

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,562
    Expenses
    $1,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,769

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.

Grants made

  • Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc

    $135,000

    2023 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

  • Project Mona's House

    $93,862

    2024 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

  • Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc

    $68,075

    2024 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

  • Clean Air Coalition of WNY

    $60,000

    2022 Buffalo Community Support

  • Feed Buffalo

    $60,000

    2022 Buffalo Community Support

  • Galactic Tribe Inc

    $60,000

    2022 Buffalo Community Support

  • VOICE Buffalo Inc

    $60,000

    2022 Buffalo Community Support

  • Net Positive Inc (dba The Foundry)

    $50,000

    2024 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

  • Net Positive Inc (dba The Foundry)

    $50,000

    2023 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

  • Anchor Church

    $50,000

    2023 Project RISE, a new community based effort to address the root causes and provide support in the aftermath of gun violence,

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Grants received

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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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.