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$477k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $169,210, the rows itemized in this filing. The $477,479 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $308,269 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $84k
$7,465
Median grant
14
States reached
$761k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Freedom Farm Community$15,600
Love Your Neighbor Rescue Mission International$12,290
Happyville Community Farm$11,975
John Muir Elementary Foundation$11,967
Earth Center Conservancy$11,639
Friends of the Mill Valley Children's Garden$10,708
Harvesting 4 Haiti Foundation$10,320
Give Hope Fight Poverty$9,767
Jupiter SDA Church$8,685
Howard Crook Foundation Inc$7,465
Casa Grande Elementary School District$6,775
Coppell Sustainable Food Organization$6,735
Mountain Roots Education$6,150
Cornerspring Montessori School$6,000
Berwick Community Garden$5,797
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Give Hope Fight Poverty: $10k → 16%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

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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 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.

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Farmville Community Garden
Food & Nutrition
2
Healthy Harvest Community Garden
Environment
3
Go Green Meridian

We are a Community Garden; we teach people how to grow food organically and sustainably.

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Greenhouse Partners

To improve the quality of life of those around us by growing vegetables year round and selling them at low cost to urban families, employing local residents and teaching sustainability and earth science to young people. In order to meet…

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5
Project Grow

Project Grow provides over 400 Ann Arbor area residents with space and know-how, educational events and inspiration to grow their own food.

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6
Community Sogarden

Community SOGarden operates a community garden that provides space, education, and resources for residents to grow fresh food, practice sustainable gardening, and build community through shared environmental stewardship.

Environment
7
Sustainable Growers
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8
Southeast Gardens and Farm

To empower and build community by providing information

Food & Nutrition
9
Garden Joy

We believe that by developing a peaceful and nurturing space where individuals, families, and groups may grow nutritious organic fruits and vegetables for their community at large, we are also growing joy.We believe in improving…

Youth Development
10
Schoolyard Farms

Schoolyard Farms creates healthier communities by teaching kids how to grow nutritious food that goes from their schoolyard farm to their plate. They do this by building farms on unused schoolyards that serve as outdoor classrooms and as…

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11
Frogtown Garden

Frogtown Farm is an urban farm with a mission to enrich the world by cultivating soil and community in Frogtown. The farm is built upon values of justice for people and the planet, connection within and across communities, resilience with…

Environment
12
Freedom Gardens

Freedom Gardens has a mission to enhance local food security by demonstrating sustainable food production methods and providing opportunities for hands-onlearning. We strive to teach resilience to food scarcity througheco-conscious…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Full Circle Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harvesting 4 Haiti Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAPPYVILLE COMMUNITY FARM INC: $11,975 · OtherHAPPYVILLE COMMUNITY FARM INCJOHN MUIR FOUNDATION: $11,967 · OtherJOHN MUIR FOUNDATIONEARTH CENTER CONSERVANCY: $11,639 · OtherEARTH CENTER CONSERVANCYOKEECHOBEE ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $8,685 · OtherOKEECHOBEE ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOLHOWARD CROOK FOUNDATION INC: $7,465 · OtherHOWARD CROOK FOUNDATION INCEAST MIDVALE ELEMENTARY: $6,775 · OtherEAST MIDVALE ELEMENTARYBERWICK COMMUNITY GARDEN INC: $5,797 · OtherBERWICK COMMUNITY GARDEN INCFELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH: $5,770 · OtherFELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCHGARDEN DISTRICT CORPORATION: $5,440 · OtherGARDEN DISTRICT CORPORATIONFreedom Farm Community: $15,600 · Food & NutritionFreedom Farm Commu…Coppell Community Garden Corporation dba Coppell Sustainable Food Org: $6,735 · Food & NutritionCoppell Community …MMCG Inc: $5,645 · Food & NutritionMMCG IncLove Your Neighbor Rescue Mission International Inc: $12,290 · InternationalLove Your Neigh…HARVESTING 4 HAITI FOUNDATION: $10,320 · InternationalHARVESTING 4 HA…FRIENDS OF MILL VALLEY CHILDREN'S G: $10,708 · EducationFRIENDS OF …Cornerspring Montessori School: $6,000 · EducationCornersprin…FULL CIRCLE EDUCATION INC: $6,150 · EnvironmentOXFORD HILLS COMMUNITY GARDENS: $5,463 · EnvironmentGIVE HOPE FIGHT POVERTY INC: $9,767 · Human ServicesGarden Time Inc: $5,019 · Crime & Legal
Other$75,513Food & Nutrition$27,980International$22,610Education$16,708Environment$11,613Human Services$9,767Crime & Legal$5,019

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLove Your Neighbor Rescue Mission International Inc: $12,290 over 1y, 33% of budgetFRIENDS OF MILL VALLEY CHILDREN'S G: $10,708 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCoppell Community Garden Corporation dba Coppell Sustainable Food Org: $6,735 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFULL CIRCLE EDUCATION INC: $6,150 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

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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 Seedmoney funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seedmoney. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Seedmoney?

    Find your warmest path to Seedmoney 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 20 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 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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