Washington · Nonprofit
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,990 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($150,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $955k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $636k
What Organic Seed Alliance does
Mission
Organic Seed Alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. Our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research and education programs to meet national and regional organic needs: Organic Seed Alliance (osa) partnered in participatory on-farm breeding and trials with farmers, seed companies, 8 universities and other institutions to identify and improve varieties for organic and ecological agriculture. Collaborative trials and breeding projects included over 100 varieties and breeding lines of more than a dozen crops tested at over 22 farms across the u.s. To learn more about osa research programs visit: https://seedalliance.org/research/
$652,329 spent76% of program spendingTraining organic seed producers to build capacity and resiliency in the seed system: osa taught a 6-month, in-depth course to train new seed producers through an online course, facilitated peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, and hands-on seed growing experience working one-on-one with seed producer mentors. In addition, osa distributed mini-grants to support the seed production efforts of beginning seed producers and seed producers of color. For more information see https://seedalliance.org/seed-internship-program-organic-seed-productio-course.
$181,105 spent21% of program spendingConferences, training, and networking programs to support the success of seed producers: Organic Seed Alliance's organic seed commons (osc) online platform, networked more than 2,000 stakeholders and hosted over 1,200 registrants from 49 states and 47 countries in the virtual 11th biennial organic seed grower's conference. Revenue retained from 2021 was utilized to host the conference. An in-depth training program, delivered through osc, advanced 35 beginning farmers' seed skills through expert instruction, peer to peer knowledge exchange and applied, hands-on seed growing and one-on-one mentorship. Visit www.organicseedcommons.org to learn more or join the network.
$30,119 spent$48,419 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $863,553.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $231k to $997k (+332%).
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: 2017 61% · 2018 62% · 2019 29% · 2020 78% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 65% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $114k → $147k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE’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
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
32% 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 ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 17% · 2019 64% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.1M
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 ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: 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 ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE?
- ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE (Washington) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,990 to it, the largest being RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION ($150,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,082,990 in grants to ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE?
- RAYNIER INSTITUTE & FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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