California · Nonprofit
PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION
PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,000 to it, the largest being JULIO R GALLO FOUNDATION ($69,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Plant a Seed Foundation does
Mission
At plant a seed, our mission is to search for and then enable creative projects that are inspiring, well planned, and will ultimately be self-sustaining. Whether they are driven by individuals, families, schools, churches, or communities, we are looking for projects that will lead to personal, emotional, and spiritual growth. We find these projects in our own backyard and all over the world.our goal is to walk with our partners, walk behind our partners, and ultimately walk away from our partners empowering them to drive their own projects forward.our mission is driven by our organization's vision:Plant a Seed Foundation will search for creative projects which enable the efforts of individuals, families, schools, churches and communities, through non-profit organization. We will find those ventures locally, regionally and around the world, we will support only those that are the most effective and lead to self-sustaining personal, emotional, and spiritual growth.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Support of school/orphanage in uganda. Provided relief to schools & students in haiti.
$235,480 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,480.
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 2021 to 2022, from $219k to $162k (−26%).
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.
86% of PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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
Rick Gray
CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION’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
PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 62% · 2023 95% — 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
100% of PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 182 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION: 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 PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION?
- PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,000 to it, the largest being JULIO R GALLO FOUNDATION ($69,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $87,000 in grants to PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION?
- JULIO R GALLO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLANT A SEED FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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