· Private foundation
The Seed Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSN | $3,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $1,600 |
| MS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF COLORADO | $250 |
| COMMUNITY CYCLES | $100 |
| HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100 |
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 (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +68% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +29%
- PJPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +68%
- PCPUBLIC CITIZEN INC3× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- DCDHARMA'S CARDEN CO FOUR KINGDOM'S COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $100
- TETHE ELIZABETH CLUB OF YALEone grant, 2021 · $100
- NANATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +50%
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Funding of legal services, pro-bono, and legal education projects.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
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
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLES CO BOULDER COMMUNITY CYCLES ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Seed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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