Our City Buffalo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934197525
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7162031302
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,353
- Expenses
- $85,178
- Assets
- $30,675
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CASSANDRA EUBANKS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CASSANDRA EUBANKS (PRESIDENT)
- ANDRE SADOFF (SECRETARY)
- RYAN KNOWLES (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization works to create a holistic, intersectional movement to address the city's most pressing issues: housing, policing, education, transportation, frontline arts, immigration, community economic development, and food sovereignty.
What it reported doing in 2024
Small business food program - partnered with other local organizationsfor a 4-month workforce and entrepreneurial program to grow the skills of over 25 immigrants and refugees in food related businesses and industries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.7%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.7% of revenue deployed · 16.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.