Minnesota · Nonprofit
GREENSEAM FUTURES
GREENSEAM FUTURES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SCHMIDTKE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Greenseam Futures does
Mission
The organization is operated for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, with the mission to be the gateway for southern minnesota for resources to educate, launch and grow tomorrow's agricultural and food leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Greenseam Futures' focus is to foster creative, meaningful collaboration with the agricultural community and educational institutions of southern minnesota, for all benefit of local students and the community at large.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
From ffa to beginning farmer loans, there are a plethora of resources available to students interested in agribusiness and to agribusinesses interested in innovation. One of Greenseam Futures goals is to avoid duplicating resources already available to area students, ag innovators and entrepreneurs, but also to help these individuals actually find the resources that are the best fit for their needs. The greenseam gateway will leverage Greenseam Futures extensive knowledge of government and non-profit programs and resources, as well as its connections with the agribusiness community, to help match individuals and small businesses with the best resources for their growth. Greenseam Futures plans to implement its work-based learning support program and the greenseam gateway in its first year of operations. At the same time, Greenseam Futures will be working closely with its educational institution partners to define the first public-benefit research project, identify faculty and students to conduct the research, and to devise a framework for classroom-business partnerships. The organizations goal is to be ready to begin research projects from both categories in Greenseam Futures…
$4,764 spentof which $3,000 as grants47% of program spendingWith water being such an important natural resource to our region, yet the quality of our lakes so poor. This project brings the private land owners together with faculty researchers and students to study the water quality of one of our local lakes to lay out some best practices that would make an impact of cleaner water.
$5,370 spent53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $82k to $180k (+121%).
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.
97% of GREENSEAM FUTURES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Gary Koch
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GREENSEAM FUTURES’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.
Where its funders are
GREENSEAM FUTURES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GREENSEAM FUTURES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREENSEAM FUTURES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREENSEAM FUTURES: 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 GREENSEAM FUTURES?
- GREENSEAM FUTURES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SCHMIDTKE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENSEAM FUTURES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to GREENSEAM FUTURES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENSEAM FUTURES?
- SCHMIDTKE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENSEAM FUTURES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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