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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,054 to it, the largest being UNFI Foundation ($43,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$38k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$137k
Net assets
$119k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance Inc does

Mission

To support current and aspiring seed keepers and food growers in their commitments to nourish healthy communities, to care for land and water, and to grow seed diversity. We envision a healthy world rooted in community care for life, land, water, people, and seeds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. General program:

    $30,261 spent
    38% of program spending
  2. Conservation: refers to the water catchment program funded by naaf (native american agricultural fund). Over 40 water catchment systems were installed throughout the navajo indian reservation.

    $23,522 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Intertribal connection initiative:

    $11,600 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Other programs: seed school - education, network, paradigm shift.

    $13,576 spentof which $2,200 as grants
    17% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,959.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($191k) Expenses 100 ($209k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2018 Revenue 105 ($200k) Expenses 93 ($193k) Net assets 105 ($131k)2019 Revenue 135 ($258k) Expenses 135 ($282k) Net assets 85 ($107k)2020 Revenue 72 ($137k) Expenses 82 ($172k) Net assets 58 ($72k)2021 Revenue 152 ($289k) Expenses 102 ($213k) Net assets 118 ($148k)2022 Revenue 214 ($408k) Expenses 98 ($204k) Net assets 282 ($352k)2023 Revenue 26 ($49k) Expenses 79 ($165k) Net assets 190 ($237k)2024 Revenue 41 ($79k) Expenses 68 ($141k) Net assets 140 ($175k)2025 Revenue 20 ($38k) Expenses 45 ($94k) Net assets 95 ($119k)
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Revenue (20)Expenses (45)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

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 $151k to $355k (+136%).

$126k
$133k
$109k
$102k
$151k
$355k
$238k
$176k
$120k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 16% · 2019 4% · 2021 34% · 2022 8% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
$6k
’18
−$24k
’19
−$35k
’20
$76k
’21
$204k
’22
−$115k
’23
−$62k
’24
−$56k
’25
14
months of
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.

201820192021202220232024
Listed5561042
Joined·+0·+4+0·
No longer listed·0·06·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $18k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC’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

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC.

32%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 40% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

17% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.

NY
RI
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−147% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC?
ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,054 to it, the largest being UNFI Foundation ($43,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $137,054 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC?
UNFI Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $43,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 9 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