Minnesota · Nonprofit
SEED COALITION
SEED COALITION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Seed Coalition does
Mission
Iowa and minnesota campus compact strengthens the capacity of colleges and universities to fulfill the public purposes of higher education through its network of 56 campuses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Recognition program - Seed Coalition held its annual recognition program where instituions participate by nominating students, staff, faculty, and community partners. Eighty-nine entities and invidividuals were honored at the 2024 program for extraordinary civic and community engagement leadership. See schedule o for additional program language"recognition program" -Seed Coalition held its annual recognition program where instituions participate by nominating students, staff, faculty, and community partners. Eighty-one entities and invidividuals were honored at the 2025 program for extraordinary civic and community engagement leadership. "service programs" -Seed Coalition facilitates two americorps programs serving member campuses and community organizations in both states. The Seed Coalition vista community corps strives to eliminate poverty through campus-community partnerships by placing full-time capacity building support in higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. The Seed Coalition civic leaders americorps program focuses on retention of college students who identify as first-generation, low-income, and/or students of color. Campuses utilized members to…
$809,410 spent$304,407 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $809,410.
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 2022 to 2023, from $291k to $523k (+80%).
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: 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2021 15% · 2022 5% · 2023 44% · 2024 65% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of SEED COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Robert Barron
Executive director
Board chair
Anne Harris
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $19k.
1 of 3 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 SEED COALITION’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
SEED COALITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of SEED COALITION's grant income comes from Minnesota 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
SEED COALITION has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SEED COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$975k
- Department of Agriculture$35k
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 SEED COALITION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 SEED COALITION: 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 SEED COALITION?
- SEED COALITION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEED COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $44,000 in grants to SEED COALITION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEED COALITION?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEED COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing