Virginia · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC
MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,605 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($413,064). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $823k
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Mountain Seed Foundation Inc does
Mission
A veteran led mission to provide healing through specially developed, proven therapeutic mental health programs for children, families and injured veterans from war - torn regions including ukraine and the middle east.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The foundation ceased art therapy programs for ukrainian refugees dispersed throughout europe and added art therapy programs at various mini base camp locations in ukraine.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Europe - ukraine and austrian healing camp
$1,329,002 spent93% of program spendingMiddle east - israeli healing camp
$100,000 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,429,002.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $9.4M (+572%).
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.
100% of MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Dana Schmidt
Executive director
Board chair
Nathan Schmidt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $21k → $43k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 39% · 2023 23% — 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
87% of MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION 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 $110k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC?
- MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,605 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($413,064). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $822,605 in grants to MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $413,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 32 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