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Seed Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $571k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERITAGE BAPTIST COALITION | $146,436 |
| CABC USA | $99,000 |
| WORLD WIDE NEW TESTAMENT BAPTIST MISSIONS | $80,000 |
| NOSNUMA INTERNATIONAL | $72,000 |
| CITYLIGHT BIBLE CHURCH | $69,036 |
| CHESTER COUNTY CONNECTCARE | $55,000 |
| GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| FAMILY BAPTIST CHURCH | $45,000 |
| GLOBAL BAPTIST MISSION | $42,400 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH LANDSDALE | $35,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC | $32,000 |
| HIDDEN TREASURE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BAPTIST WORLD MISSION | $24,866 |
| TRI-STATE BIBLE CAMP | $24,092 |
| PACIFIC RIM MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $20,300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Seed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 16% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- THThe Heritage Baptist Coalition5× · 2019–2024 · $802k · revenue +183% · 27% of their budget
- IPINTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $736k · revenue +16%
- FBFaith Baptist Bible College4× · 2017–2021 · $649k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FBFAITH BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE & THEOLOGICALone grant, 2022 · $175k
- OIOREMUNDO INCone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -66% · 37% of their budget
- 5I58TEN INCone grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Organization is formed for Christian evangelism and discipleship training as afundamentalist, evangelical, and non-denominational faith-based missionorganization. Its mission is to reach out to students with the whole of gospel ofJesus…
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Training pastors in third world countries
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Our mission is to carry out the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ to take the Good News of the gospel to the whole world teaching people to obey everything He commanded. We work among mostly low-literacy populations so we do this by…
Missionary ministry to foreign countries
Biblical instruction
To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans
Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ evangelism discipleship and church planting
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Evangelize japanese by establishing chapels, home bible studies, training and production of literature for free distribution.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist International Evangelistic Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chester County Connect Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Heritage Baptist Coalition ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NOSNUMA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Faith Baptist Bible College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EURASIAN BAPTIST MISSION ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OREMUNDO INC ↗
- Who funds 58TEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM AIR CORPS ↗
- Who funds COUNTY CORRECTIONS GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY CONNECT CARE ↗
- Who funds BIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cornerstone Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Inspiration Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · P & B Foundation · The Melvin and Virginia Hutson Foundation · John Calvin Bible Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Seed Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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