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Seed Fund Ua 121991 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ACTA NON-VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT$100,000
NATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCY$100,000
KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS$100,000
FRESH FUTURE FARM INC$100,000
LOITER$75,000
THREE SISTERS GARDEN$50,000
LAULIMA KUHAO$50,000
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
WOZU$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

+53%
+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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FARMLINK
    3× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +107%
  • FA
    FARM ALLIANCE OF BALTIMORE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +405%
  • 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%
  • BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +178%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS: $695,000 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORSLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: $200,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTERFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH FUTURE FARM INCBLACK 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 GARDENNATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCYLAULIMA KUHAO: $100,000 · OtherLAULIMA KUHAOIndividual 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee 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 budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $135,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seed Fund Ua 121991 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seed Fund Ua 121991. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 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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