Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,933,545 to it, the largest being THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ($11,500,030). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Seed Global Health does
Mission
Our mission is to expand access to quality care and improve health outcomes for all. We achieve our mission by partnering deeply to strengthen the health systems in the countries where we work, with a special focus on strengthening the professional health workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We partner and invest deeply in the health workforce and health systems in four countries: malawi, sierra leone, uganda, and zambia. We educate and train health workers across a variety of cadres and specialties, strengthen the quality of care in our partner health facilities, and improve the national and global policy environments to support health workers.our priorities are driven by the priorities of our partners. As such, our work currently focuses on educating doctors, nurses, and midwives to meet the most critical needs in our partner countries. We work across specialties spanning primary health care, emergency care, and reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health.
$8,676,872 spentof which $328,186 as grants$70,197 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,676,872.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.1M to $13M (+60%).
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 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 3% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SEED GLOBAL HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dede Orraca-Cecil
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $7.9M.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 GLOBAL HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 SEED GLOBAL HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 43% · 2019 74% · 2020 14% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% — 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
42% of SEED GLOBAL HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SEED GLOBAL HEALTH
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Seed Global Health Uganda Limited · disregarded
- Seed Global Health Limited · disregarded
- Seed Global Health Zambia · disregarded
- Seed Global Health · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEED GLOBAL HEALTH: 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 GLOBAL HEALTH?
- SEED GLOBAL HEALTH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,933,545 to it, the largest being THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ($11,500,030). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEED GLOBAL HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $37,933,545 in grants to SEED GLOBAL HEALTH, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEED GLOBAL HEALTH?
- THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,500,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEED GLOBAL HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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