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Seed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$875k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$146,436
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Seed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$875k37%
FY202316$719k31%
FY202221$1.3M33%
FY202117$1.1M24%
FY202019$606k32%
FY201920$1.5M25%
FY201818$1.2M50%
FY201718$761kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$4.3MEducation$1.7MInternational$1.4MHuman Services$224kHealth$146kCivil Rights$102kArts & Culture$80kRecreation & Sports$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Heritage Baptist Coalition$802,436527%
International Partnership Ministries Inc$736,16083%
Nosnuma International$693,500828%
Faith Baptist Bible College$648,81346%
Southland Christian Ministries Inc$591,500418%
Eurasian Baptist Mission$404,714722%
Pacific Rim Missions International$262,3007n/a
Baptists Equipping Nationals$151,0006n/a
Baptist International Evangelistic Ministries Inc$121,00042%
Oremundo Inc$120,000137%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Seed Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Heritage Baptist Coalition$802,436527%
International Partnership Ministries Inc$736,16083%
Nosnuma International$693,500828%
Faith Baptist Bible College$648,81346%
Southland Christian Ministries Inc$591,500418%
Eurasian Baptist Mission$404,714722%
Pacific Rim Missions International$262,3007n/a
Baptists Equipping Nationals$151,0006n/a
Baptist International Evangelistic Ministries Inc$121,00042%
Oremundo Inc$120,000137%
58ten Inc$115,000121%
Cornerstone Bible Baptist Church$114,9373n/a
Baptist World Mission$80,8663n/a
World Wide New Testament Baptist Missions Inc$80,0001n/a
Bridge Academy and Community Center$66,16539%
Hidden Treasure Christian School$65,0002n/a
Kingdom Air Corps$65,00023%
Gospel Fellowship Association$63,0002n/a
County Corrections Gospel Mission$57,30926%
Chester County Connect Care$55,00014%
Bible Visuals International Inc$54,684211%
Tri-City Baptist Church$51,0004n/a
Family Baptist Church$45,0001n/a
Baptist Mid-Missions$43,0001n/a
Baptist Evangelistic Ministry Endeavors$41,0001n/a
Remember$39,000110%
Inter-City Baptist Church$20,0001n/a
Baptist International Missions Incorporated$20,0001n/a
Frontline Missions International$20,00011%
Cabc USA Inc$20,00011%
Hope Ministries International$10,0001n/a
Emu International Inc$10,0001n/a
Alliance Christian School District$7,00010%
Antioch Baptist Church$5,1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Seed Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Heritage Baptist Coalition: $802,436 over 5y, 27% of budgetInternational Partnership Ministries Inc: $736,160 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNosnuma International: $693,500 over 8y, 28% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College: $648,813 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetSouthland Christian Ministries Inc: $591,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetEurasian Baptist Mission: $404,714 over 7y, 22% of budgetBaptist International Evangelistic Ministries Inc: $121,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetOremundo Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 37% of budget58ten Inc: $115,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBridge Academy and Community Center: $66,165 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetKingdom Air Corps: $65,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCounty Corrections Gospel Mission: $57,309 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetChester County Connect Care: $55,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBible Visuals International Inc: $54,684 over 2y, 11% of budgetRemember: $39,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFrontline Missions International: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCabc USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAlliance Christian School District: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Cornerstone FoundationPA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Seed Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Seed Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Seed Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Seed Foundation

How much does Seed Foundation give?
Seed Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $875,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Seed Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Education (21%), International (17%).
Who are Seed Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Heritage Baptist Coalition ($802k), International Partnership Ministries Inc ($736k), Nosnuma International ($694k).
Does Seed Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seed Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cornerstone Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Inspiration Charitable Foundation.
Where is Seed Foundation based?
Seed Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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