Delaware · Private foundation
Seeding the Future Foundation
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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $761,741
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Seeding the Future Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.9M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $2.0M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $960k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Food Technologists | $4,841,949 | 6 | 12% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $1,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $790,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $561,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Drawdown | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Extreme Tech Challenge | $135,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Food System 6 Accelerator Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Bountifield International | $86,100 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seeding the Future Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Windward Fund · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Seeding the Future Foundation
- How much does Seeding the Future Foundation give?
- Seeding the Future Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,941,241 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Seeding the Future Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (62%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Seeding the Future Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute of Food Technologists ($4.8M), Second Harvest Heartland ($1.0M), Trustees of Tufts College ($790k).
- Does Seeding the Future Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seeding the Future Foundation 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 Seeding the Future Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Windward Fund.
- Where is Seeding the Future Foundation based?
- Seeding the Future Foundation is based in DE.
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