Alabama · Private foundation
The Seeds Initiative
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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 53
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $424k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations The Seeds Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 | 36 | $93k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $109k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $80k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buildon Inc | $26,280 | 1 | 0% |
| Glenwood Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Covenant Rescue Group | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brother Bryan Mission | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | $8,970 | 3 | 0% |
| Neverthirst Inc | $8,891 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $8,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Sustainable Harvest International | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kid One Transport System Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Daniel Cason Kids Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Seeds Initiative supplied at peak.
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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 Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Faulkner Family Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Seeds Initiative?
Find your warmest path to The Seeds Initiative 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 The Seeds Initiative
- How much does The Seeds Initiative give?
- The Seeds Initiative reported 36 grants totaling $93,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 53 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Seeds Initiative fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), International (21%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Seeds Initiative's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Buildon Inc ($26k), Glenwood Inc ($13k), Covenant Rescue Group ($11k).
- Does The Seeds Initiative fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Seeds Initiative 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 The Seeds Initiative?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Seeds Initiative based?
- The Seeds Initiative is based in AL.
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