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Seed Fund Ua 121991

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.7MEnvironment$485kPublic Benefit$235kSocial Science$200kPhilanthropy$135kArts & Culture$95kEducation$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $950k
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA FARMLINK$400,000
MANZANITA CAPITAL COLLECTIVE$300,000
COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB$250,000
INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTON'S FUTURE$215,000
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST$160,000
NATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCY$100,000
ACTA NON-VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT$100,000
KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS$100,000
FRESH FUTURE FARM INC$100,000
LOITER$75,000
LAULIMA KUHAO$50,000
THREE SISTERS GARDEN$50,000
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
WOZU$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $250k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ND
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 15 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FARMLINK
    3× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +107%
  • FA
    FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +262%
  • SO
    SHARING OUR ROOTS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • LS
    LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • BF
    BLACK FARMER FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +113%
  • NB
    National Black Food and Justice Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
2
Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association

Carrying out the policy of Californias to support socially disadvantaged farmers through The Farmers Equity Act and with pending state funding, the mission of Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association is empowering historically underserved…

Community Improvement
3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
5
Sprout City Farms

Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Sustainable Growers
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7
Capital Roots Inc

Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…

Environment
8
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
9
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
10
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
11
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Farm Collaborative

Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ukwakhwa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 9 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%14%<5yr14%38%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%23%<5yr14%39%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $695,000 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORSFRESH FUTURE FARM INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH FUTURE FARM INCLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $200,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTERBLACK OREGON LAND TRUST — $160,000 · Food & NutritionBLACK OREGON LAND TRUSTNational Black Food and Justice Alliance — $100,000 · Food & NutritionNational Black Food and Justic…+4 more — $97,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreMANZANITA CAPITAL COLLECTIVE — $300,000 · OtherMANZANITA CAPITAL COLLECTIVEINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE — $215,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTUREMULTIPLIER (FORMERLY TRUST FOR CONSERVATION INNOVATION) — $125,000 · OtherMULTIPLIER (FORMERLY TRUST FOR CO…THREE SISTERS GARDEN — $100,000 · OtherTHREE SISTERS GARDENLAULIMA KUHAO — $100,000 · OtherLAULIMA KUHAONATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherUJAMAA FARMER COLLECTIVE — $60,000 · OtherMULTIPLIER — $100,000 · OtherMULTIPLIERAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $135,000 · OtherAmalgamated Charitable Foundation…+13 more — $332,000 · Other+13 moreCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CREDIT LABCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $475,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA …TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationTOHONO O'OD…+1 more — $7,000 · EducationBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementLoiter — $150,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $100,000 · Community ImprovementSHARING OUR ROOTS — $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $200,000 · Social ScienceACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOZU INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Food & Nutrition$1,452,000Other$1,642,000Human Services$1,000,000Education$557,000Community Improvement$425,000Social Science$200,000Youth Development$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB — $1,000,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $695,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $475,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC — $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $175,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $135,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Tilth — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGRICULTURE FOR COMMUNITY RESTORATION ECONOMIC JUSTICE SUSTA — $35,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBLACK FARM BUREAU — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUKWAKHWA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEQUITY TRUST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSHARING OUR ROOTS — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncClif Family FoundationResist IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…PatagoniaorgCommunity Foundation …Tides FoundationPossibility LabsSilicon Valley Commun…
ImpactassetsincMD35.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Resist Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Tides Foundation · Possibility Labs · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 Fund Ua 121991 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Seed Fund Ua 121991?

    Find your warmest path to Seed Fund Ua 121991 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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