Skip to content
The Seeds Initiative at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$48kInternational$40kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$13kHousing & Shelter$11kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$424k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy$10,000
Food Bank of Rio Grand Valley$7,500
HABD$6,500
The Bell Center for Early Intervention$6,500
Covenant Rescue Group$5,000
Daniel Carson KIDS Ministries$5,000
American Cancer Society$5,000
Brother Bryan Mission$5,000
Glenwood$5,000
Sustainable Harvest International$4,000
Big Brother Big Sister$3,000
Laura Crandall Brown Foundation$3,000
TEXSAR Texas Search and Rescue$2,500
Red Mountain Grace$2,500
King's Home$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Lord's Refuge: $1k → 16%14th and Chestnut Community Center: $1k → 19%The Oasis House: $3k → 14%YMCA Metropolitan Chicago: $1k → 14%Metrocrest Services: $1k → 14%Family Crisis Center: $1k → 23%Mission Outreach of NEA: $500 → 16%Clerestory: $1k → 7%King's Home: $3k → 7%Outdoor Ability Foundation: $500 → 16%King's Home: $2k → 7%King's Home: $1k → 7%Kid One Transport System: $3k → 16%Wings of Hope Pediatric Foundation: $1k → 7%Kid One Transport System: $2k → 16%Vineyard Family Services of Central Alabama: $800 → 7%Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections: $2k → 16%Heidi's Kids: $1k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $5k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 24 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
68

Total granted

$141k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +37%
  • CR
    COVENANT RESCUE GROUP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +7%
  • TB
    THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BUILDON INC
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue 0%
  • NI
    NEVERTHIRST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
2
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
3
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

—
4
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

—
5
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
6
Katy Christian Ministries

See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…

Human Services
7
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
8
Food Bank of North Alabama Inc

collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations

Food & Nutrition
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates

To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.

Crime & Legal
10
Delta Childrens Advocacy Center

Delta Childrens Advocacy Centers mission is to respond to child abuse in the Mississippi Delta by serving and nurturing children and non-offending caregivers through a trauma-informed multidisciplinary approach.

Crime & Legal
11
Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc

The Center operates in Southwest Alabama providing counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups experiencing problems related to stress, family discord, parenting, phobias, aging, rape, and financial difficulties.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Crisis Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 113 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
34/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lifeline Childrens Services: $26,955 · OtherLifeline Childrens ServicesGLENWOOD INC: $12,500 · OtherGLENWOOD INCFood Bank of Rio Grand Valley: $12,000 · OtherFood Bank of Rio Grand ValleyParent Project Muscular Dystrophy: $10,000 · OtherParent Project Muscular DystrophyHABD: $6,500 · OtherDANIEL CASON KIDS MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Other+62 more: $67,550 · Other+62 moreTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $8,970 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …REFUGE 1212 INC: $4,660 · HealthREFUGE 1212 INCLaura Crandall Brown Foundation: $3,000 · HealthLaura Crandall B…The Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,900 · HealthThe Children's H…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDAT…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP: $2,000 · HealthUnited Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · Health+3 moreBUILDON INC: $26,280 · InternationalBUILDON INCNEVERTHIRST INC: $8,891 · InternationalNEVERTHIRST INCMISSION OF TRUTH: $2,000 · International+2 more: $1,500 · InternationalBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBROTHER BRYAN …KID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesKID ONE TRANSP…Kings Home Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesKings Home IncAffecting Community Transformation: $2,500 · Human ServicesAffecting Comm…Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections: $2,000 · Human ServicesBirmingham Cro…+13 more: $10,900 · Human Services+13 moreCOVENANT RESCUE GROUP: $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEXSAR INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterSustainable Harvest International: $8,000 · EnvironmentMobile Baykeeper Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $5,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION IMPACT INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities in Schools of Brazoria County Inc: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$140,505Health$41,280International$38,671Human Services$35,400Public Safety & Disaster$14,000Environment$9,000Community Improvement$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUILDON INC: $26,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLENWOOD INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT RESCUE GROUP: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $8,970 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEVERTHIRST INC: $8,891 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKID ONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKings Home Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGE 1212 INC: $4,660 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaura Crandall Brown Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAffecting Community Transformation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGEODIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Overseas Initiative: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBirmingham Cross Cultural Connections: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE YOUTH INC: $1,200 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCLERESTORY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKids of the Community: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE RIVER AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE PEDIATRIC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLORDS REFUGE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Nashville Arts Coalition: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMobile Baykeeper Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutstretched Hands Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Seeds Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seeds Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Seeds Initiative’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home