Colorado · Private foundation
Giving Seed
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $56k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $37,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Giving Seed funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $56k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $45k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $25k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging Bionics Foundation | $17,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Brake the Cycle | $8,750 | 2 | 4% |
| Recovery Resources | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Not So Boring Bible | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Giving Seed
- How much does Giving Seed give?
- Giving Seed reported 6 grants totaling $56,393 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Giving Seed fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Human Services (23%), Health (11%).
- Who are Giving Seed's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Bridging Bionics Foundation ($17k), Brake the Cycle ($9k), Recovery Resources ($1k).
- Does Giving Seed fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Giving Seed accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Giving Seed?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Giving Seed based?
- Giving Seed is based in CO.
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