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The Seeds Initiative

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.

$109k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Human Services$48kInternational$40kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$13kHousing & Shelter$11kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$1,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$426k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BuildOn$26,280
Lifeline Childrens Services$14,455
Rebuilding Together St Louis$5,000
Brother Bryan Mission$5,000
Sustainable Harvest International$4,000
Covenant Rescue Group$3,500
American Cancer Society$3,250
Cornerstone School of Alabama$2,500
OHL Foundation$2,500
Glenwood$2,500
Food Bank of Rio Grand Valley$2,000
Susan G Komen Foundation$2,000
Kid One Transport System$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
United Cerebral Palsy$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Lord's Refuge: $1k → 16%14th and Chestnut Community Center: $1k → 19%The Oasis House: $3k → 14%Metrocrest Services: $1k → 14%Family Crisis Center: $1k → 23%Mission Outreach of NEA: $500 → 16%Clerestory: $1k → 7%Outdoor Ability Foundation: $500 → 16%King's Home: $2k → 7%Kid One Transport System: $3k → 16%King's Home: $1k → 7%Kid One Transport System: $2k → 16%Wings of Hope Pediatric Foundation: $1k → 7%Vineyard Family Services of Central Alabama: $800 → 7%Brother Bryan Mission: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$75k · 18 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
40

Total granted

$75k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

56%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GI
    GLENWOOD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +21%
  • CR
    COVENANT RESCUE GROUP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • KO
    KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NI
    NEVERTHIRST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • PR
    Project Rescue
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • AC
    Affecting Community Transformationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
2
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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3
Christians Reaching Out to Society Inc

CROS serves the hungry by distributing food at local pantries, recovering and distributing fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste, serving lunch at local meal sites, delivering prepared meals to the homebound.

Religion
4
His Helping Hands Ministries

Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.

Religion
5
Christian Outreach Center of Baton Rouge

The christian outreach center of baton rouge is a christ-centered homeless prevention ministry helping people toward self-sufficiency in downtown baton rouge.

Health
6
Home of Grace for Women Inc

The Home of Grace for Women, Inc. is a resident alcohol and drug recovery program serving women primarily from southwest Alabama. Short term lodging is available for program graduates.

Health
7
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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8
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
9
Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
10
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion
11
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
12
Alabama Casa Network Inc

The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Geodis Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Construc…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%14%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
31/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lifeline Childrens Services — $26,955 · OtherLifeline Childrens ServicesGLENWOOD INC — $7,500 · OtherGLENWOOD INCFood Bank of Rio Grand Valley — $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · Other+51 more — $52,050 · Other+51 moreBUILDON INC — $26,280 · InternationalBUILDON INCNEVERTHIRST INC — $8,891 · InternationalNEVERTHIRST INCMISSION OF TRUTH — $2,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesKID ONE TRANSP…BROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $5,000 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN …Affecting Community Transformation — $2,500 · Human ServicesAffecting Comm…Kings Home Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesKings Home IncFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesWINGS OF HOPE PEDIATRIC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human Services14th & Chestnut Community Center — $1,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES — $1,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLORDS REFUGE — $1,000 · Human ServicesCLERESTORY INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc — $800 · Human Services+3 more — $1,100 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,250 · HealthAMERICAN CA…THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $2,470 · HealthTHE BELL CE…REFUGE 1212 INC — $2,160 · HealthREFUGE 1212…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,000 · HealthThe Susan G…The Children's Hospital of Alabama — $1,900 · HealthThe Childre…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC — $1,500 · HealthUNITED CERE…AUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC — $1,000 · HealthHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP — $1,000 · HealthNEA DIVINE INTERVENTION INC — $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthCOVENANT RESCUE GROUP — $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL — $500 · Public Safety & DisasterREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities in Schools of Brazoria County Inc — $500 · Community ImprovementSustainable Harvest International — $4,000 · EnvironmentMobile Baykeeper Inc — $1,000 · Environment
Other$94,505International$38,171Human Services$23,900Health$18,780Public Safety & Disaster$6,500Community Improvement$5,500Environment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUILDON INC — $26,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVERTHIRST INC — $8,891 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLENWOOD INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT RESCUE GROUP — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEODIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAffecting Community Transformation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKings Home Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $2,470 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE 1212 INC — $2,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Overseas Initiative — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION OF TRUTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE YOUTH INC — $1,200 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE PEDIATRIC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget14th & Chestnut Community Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Nashville Arts Coalition — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEA DIVINE INTERVENTION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutstretched Hands Ministries Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLORDS REFUGE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKids of the Community — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLERESTORY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama Inc — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaleigh Music Collective Holding 1 — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Alabama Power Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Hill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…The Faulkner Family F…Robert R Meyer Founda…Quarterbacking Childr…Dunn-French FoundationUnited Way of Central…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL30.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Seeds Initiative 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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