Louisiana · Nonprofit
ETERNAL SEEDS INC
ETERNAL SEEDS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,589,407 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,449,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Eternal Seeds Inc does
Mission
We are a community-based nonprofit that serves artists in New Orleans. Our work is centered around education empowerment and the preservation of New Orleans Black history and culture with a focus on young and emerging artists. We provide young and emerging artists with tools they need to become the revolutionary leaders and shapers of a more just equitable and artful world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming to Inspire - Eternal Seeds operates a 36,000 square foot art gallery and living museum called Studio BE. Studio BE serves as a cultural landmark that centers the voices and stories of the Black Experience and invites visitors and artists who havent traditionally felt welcome in art spaces. In addition to a permanent collection of art Eternal Seeds curates special exhibitions and provides guided tours for groups of students and adults.
$536,439 spentof which $27,667 as grants$346,569 earned by the program69% of program spendingProgramming to Empower - Eternal Seeds provides opportunities for artists to participate in large projects and commissions.
$67,893 spentof which $37,515 as grants$94,500 earned by the program9% of program spendingProgramming to Educate - Eternal Seeds runs two keynote educational programs Summer Session: an arts-intensive for 14-17 year olds where participants gain experience creating art and learn valuable skills to lay the Foundation for future art careers and BElite: a Youth-led student artist collective that creates murals hosts workshops and does art activations.
$176,390 spentof which $91,399 as grants$15,748 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $780,722.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $3.6M (+148%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of ETERNAL SEEDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Brandan Odums
President Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.5M.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 ETERNAL SEEDS 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
ETERNAL SEEDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 ETERNAL SEEDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 77% · 2022 80% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of ETERNAL SEEDS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.5M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
ETERNAL SEEDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ETERNAL SEEDS 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ETERNAL SEEDS 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 ETERNAL SEEDS INC?
- ETERNAL SEEDS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,589,407 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,449,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ETERNAL SEEDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,589,407 in grants to ETERNAL SEEDS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ETERNAL SEEDS INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,449,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ETERNAL SEEDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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