Rotary Club of Buffalo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160616795
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168543397
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,689
- Expenses
- $110,538
- Assets
- $86,388
- Liabilities
- $5,240
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS VAN NORTWICK (PAST PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLAS ALBERALLA (PRESIDENT)
- JOE BRENNAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THOMAS VAN NORTWICK (PAST PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLAS ALBERALLA (PRESIDENT)
- JOE BRENNAN (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A community service organization dedicated to providing volunteer services and supporting rotary's guiding principles of service, fellowship, integrity, and furtherance of world understanding and peace.
What it reported doing in 2025
Club activities: members meet weekly at lunch where programs relating to civic, charitable and other subjects of general interest are presented.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 62.6%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 62.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.