Youth Orchestra Foundation of Buffalo Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161019362
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Tonawanda, NY, USA
Phone
7169036129
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Symphony Orchestras

Reported finances

Revenue
$158,616
Expenses
$148,720
Assets
$184,793
Liabilities
$9,165

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amy Andrus (President)
  • Marielle Zych (Executive Director)
  • Sarah Greber (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Stephan Guidie (Treasurer)
  • Natalie Scanio (Sectetary)
  • Amy Andrus (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

To promote and maintain a youth symphony orchestra and ensembles to provide a positive, growning and educational playing experience for talented students of music, to supplement the musical training offered in the school music programs, and to enrich the cultural atmosphere of the niagara frontier through musical performances.

What it reported doing in 2025

The youth orchestra foundation of buffalo, inc. Provides instruction and guidance for local youth to practice and ultimately perform 7 to 9 public concerts annually.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.