Minnesota · Private foundation
Seed for the Sower Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Seed for the Sower Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $59k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $45k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $113k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $108k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $133k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Involved International Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Global University | $27,402 | 4 | n/a |
| Tree Top Kids | $21,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Love a Child Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Missions Today | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Life Assembly of God | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Involved International Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Global University | $27,402 | 4 | n/a |
| Tree Top Kids | $21,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Love a Child Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Missions Today | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Life Assembly of God | $9,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Mercy Ships International | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The General Council of the Assemblies of God | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Uttermost International | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| F R E E International Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Family Worship Center Church Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steiger International Limited | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gateway Christian Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Neighbors Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Riverside Evangelical Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Iowa University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harbor Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seed for the Sower Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Seed for the Sower Foundation
- How much does Seed for the Sower Foundation give?
- Seed for the Sower Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $59,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Seed for the Sower Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (43%), International (27%), Education (7%).
- Who are Seed for the Sower Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Involved International Inc ($80k), Global University ($27k), Tree Top Kids ($21k).
- Does Seed for the Sower Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seed for the Sower Foundation 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 Seed for the Sower Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Seed for the Sower Foundation based?
- Seed for the Sower Foundation is based in MN.
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