Connecticut · Private foundation
Seedlings 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.
- $28M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 96
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,980,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 88
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $226M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Seedlings 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; $4.0M 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 | 93 | $28M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $22M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $20M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $25M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $12M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $12M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $18M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 83 | $22M | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truth in Advertising Inc | $12,065,000 | 9 | 100% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $9,615,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Grameen America Inc | $9,450,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc | $8,407,500 | 9 | 9% |
| Teach for America Inc | $7,400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| National Archives Foundation | $5,200,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Teach for All Inc | $4,939,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $4,325,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends Center for Children Inc | $4,151,000 | 6 | 29% |
| The My Hero Project Inc | $3,550,672 | 7 | 96% |
Show all 168 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($32M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Seedlings Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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 Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Jms Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Seedlings Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Seedlings Foundation 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 Seedlings Foundation
- How much does Seedlings Foundation give?
- Seedlings Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $28,278,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seedlings Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Seedlings Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Truth in Advertising Inc ($12M), Hopkins School Incorporated ($9.6M), Grameen America Inc ($9.4M).
- Does Seedlings Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seedlings 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 Seedlings Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Newalliance Foundation Inc, Yale University.
- Where is Seedlings Foundation based?
- Seedlings Foundation is based in CT.
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