The Buffalo Immigrant Leadership Team Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820878797
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Buffalo, NY, USA
Phone
7164748350
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$167,142
Expenses
$122,385
Assets
$236,317
Liabilities
$122,385

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Victoire-Grace Karambizi (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jerry Manuel (Chairperson)
  • Solomon Joseph (Secretary)
  • Esperance Rwigamba (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At All times shall be operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational or scientific purpose to assist in the community

What it reported doing in 2025

Mental Health First Aid Training-BILT partnered with the New York StateDepartment of Helaths Office of Health Equity to host a fullday mental health first aid training, designed to strengthen the capacity of community leaders to recognize and respond to mental health challenges within their communities

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49

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: 26.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 55.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.