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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 FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
85%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 85% of the organizations Seed Fund Ua 121991 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$2.0M43%
FY202413$1.0M85%
FY20238$1.0M75%
FY20222$350k50%
FY20211$100k0%
FY202016$430k50%
FY20199$171k100%
FY20181$100kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Credit Lab$1,000,000483%
Kitchen Table Advisors$695,00062%
California Farmlink$475,00031%
Manzanita Capital Collective$300,0001n/a
Institute for Washingtons Future$215,0001n/a
La Semilla Food Center$200,00015%
Fresh Future Farm Inc$200,000217%
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project$175,00024%
Black Oregon Land Trust$160,0001n/a
Black Farmer Fund Inc$150,00013%
Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($567k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Seed Fund Ua 121991 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLa Semilla Food Center: $200,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFresh Future Farm Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 17% 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 budgetBoston Impact Initiative Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMultiplier: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 budgetFarm Alliance of Baltimore Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUkwakhwa Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBlack Farm Bureau: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSharing Our Roots: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEquity Trust Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% 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

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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 24.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

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

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.

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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.

About Seed Fund Ua 121991

How much does Seed Fund Ua 121991 give?
Seed Fund Ua 121991 reported 14 grants totaling $1,975,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Seed Fund Ua 121991 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (40%), Community Improvement (31%), Environment (9%).
Who are Seed Fund Ua 121991's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Community Credit Lab ($1.0M), Kitchen Table Advisors ($695k), California Farmlink ($475k).
Does Seed Fund Ua 121991 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seed Fund Ua 121991 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 Fund Ua 121991?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Rsf Social Finance Inc, Clif Family Foundation.
Where is Seed Fund Ua 121991 based?
Seed Fund Ua 121991 is based in MA.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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