· Private foundation
Seedtime Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHIPS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $3,500 |
| RADIO FREE GA BROADCASTING FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| LEONARD PELTIER AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $3,500 |
| STITCH BUFFALO | $2,000 |
| MOTHERHOOD BEYOND BARS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $1,500 |
| SOUTHERN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $1,000 |
| Romero Institute | $1,000 |
| THE CHAMP FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE PHILANTHORPY WORKSHOP | $1,000 |
| TAOS SPORTS ASSOCIATES | $1,000 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CUMBERLANDS | $1,000 |
| FORESTBURGH PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +45%
- RFRADIO FREE GEORGIA BROADCASTING ORGANIZATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +173%
- RCREFUGE COFFEE CO5× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +143%
Funded once
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +29%- TTTREATMENT TRENDS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -26%
- WWCECAone grant, 2017 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
The International Center is a District of Columbia 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1977, has as its principal purpose the promotion of greater international understanding and the lessening of international frictions and…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…
Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Constitutional Rights and the most unlike its peers is National Dance Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RADIO FREE GEORGIA BROADCASTING ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE COFFEE CO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Taos Sports Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TREATMENT TRENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERHOOD BEYOND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds Hutchinson River Restoration Project ↗
- Who funds THE STORY COLLIDER INC ↗
- Who funds ROMERO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STITCH BUFFALO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Seedtime Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Seedtime Fund Inc?
Find your warmest path to Seedtime Fund Inc 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.