· Private foundation
Seed Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Seed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 16%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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