Arizona · Nonprofit
NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED
NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED (Arizona) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,709 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($291,503). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Native Seedssouthwestern Endangered does
Mission
Native seeds/search conserves and shares the seeds of the people of the desert southwest and mexico so that these arid-adapted crops may benefit communities and nourish a changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation: this program oversees the growing out and regeneration of seeds in our conservation center garden, management of the seed bank collection, including germination testing, conducting seed inventories, cleaning and packing seeds and coordinating with distribution. The conservation department also coordinated with partner farmers to grow out and regenerate rare and endangered seeds. In 2025, between the ns/s conservation center gardens in tucson and over 18 regional partner farmers, we successfully grew over 65 accessions for regeneration and distribution.
$672,452 spent54% of program spendingDistribution: our distribution department provides access to heirloom seeds stewarded and managed by ns/s through sales and free seed access programs. Seeds and plant starts are sold through the online store and at plant sales. Community seed access programs for native american individuals and families, community organizations and tribes are managed to provide access to culturally relevant seeds. In 2025, almost 29,000 free seed packets were shared to thousands of individuals and families as well as 209 schools and community gardens.
$423,395 spent$572,894 earned by the program34% of program spendingEducation and outreach: our education work is focused on providing resources and support to gardeners and farmers from the southwest, especially in indigenous communities that have connections to the seeds we steward. We give presentations, resources and training on seed saving and also host visits and tours of the conservation center, including the garden, seedlab and seedbank. In 2025, we hosted and presented at 20 workshops on gardening and seedsaving, provided 23 tours and visits at the conservation center, visited several farms and community gardens to provide technical consultation and programmatic support, tabled at 16 events to represent ns/s and presented at 23 conferences and/or meetings.
$149,434 spent$2,381 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,245,281.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.2M to $2.7M (+22%).
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: 2021 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Jacob Butler
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $145k → $237k.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 49% · 2021 77% · 2022 24% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED'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 $536k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $709k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $308k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$308k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED?
- NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED (Arizona) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,709 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($291,503). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,245,709 in grants to NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $291,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing