Buffalow Family and Friends Community Days
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473950371
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA, US
- Phone
- 757-739-5222
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $508,354
- Expenses
- $525,598
- Assets
- $16,713
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- nischelle Buffalow (president)
- Delena Buffalow (Vice President)
- Victor Winters (Vice President II)
People named in this filing
- nischelle Buffalow (president)
- Dena Jones (Treasurer)
- Delena Buffalow (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Buffalow Family and Friends is to end hunger for seniors and children in Hampton Roads.
What it reported doing in 2023
Community Hair Salon services that go beyond providing free services, also a self esteem bohardships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.6%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 35.4%; rating input score 35
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 36.6% of revenue deployed · 35.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 11 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompDisqualPersons column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.