· Private foundation
Seedworks Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| JUSTICE INNOVATION INC | $130,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $120,000 |
| BROOKLYNORG | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $100,000 |
| CO COALITION FOR HOMELESS | $50,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| CONSERVATION COLORADO ED FUND | $50,000 |
| CO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN | $50,000 |
| ALWAYS HOME | $40,000 |
| FAMILY TREE | $40,000 |
| READ 718 | $35,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $25,000 |
| END OF LIFE OPTIONS CO | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $976k · revenue +8%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +102%
EARTHJUSTICE7× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- BBIHSone grant, 2021 · $85k
- TBTHE BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $60k
- BIBLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0% · 28% of their budget
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.
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
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…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds StoryCenter ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds READ 718 INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARY D FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO MUJER INC ↗
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: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seedworks Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seedworks Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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