California · Nonprofit
ADVANCING THE SEED INC
ADVANCING THE SEED INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,325 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $437k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $-37406
What Advancing the Seed Inc does
Mission
Training, coaching, leadership development, and financial literacy programs for young adults and capacity-building technical assistance programs for small capacity and minority-led nonprofits and minority entrepreneurs/small business owners in underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Activate purpose: activate purpose is an entrepreneurship program that empowers young adults and reentry founders, as well as delivering technical assistance to diverse small businesses, and connecting them all to essential software grants and seed capital to fuel growth and economic mobility.
$282,074 spentof which $11,566 as grants$41,057 earned by the program80% of program spendingGeneral programs - all other programs that aren`t currently funded by a grant.
$40,376 spentof which $134 as grants11% of program spendingNonprofit consulting: our nonprofit consulting program equips emerging and small-capacity organizations with the strategic guidance, tools, and coaching needed to build sustainable infrastructure, increase funding capacity, and amplify community impact.
$31,105 spent9% of program spendingOther programs
$416 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $143k to $19k (−87%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 79% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ADVANCING THE SEED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Regeanie Corona
President/CEO
Board chair
Helen Acevez
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $22 → $275.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVANCING THE SEED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVANCING THE SEED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVANCING THE SEED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ADVANCING THE SEED INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVANCING THE SEED INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVANCING THE SEED INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCING THE SEED INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVANCING THE SEED INC?
- ADVANCING THE SEED INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,325 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCING THE SEED INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,325 in grants to ADVANCING THE SEED INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCING THE SEED INC?
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCING THE SEED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing