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SEED International Inc

SEED International Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,298 to it, the largest being CHOONG HYUN WORLD NEWTHING MISSION INC ($198,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.3M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$396k
Net assets
$2.5M
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What SEED International Inc does

Mission

Seed International. Inc. is a Christian Organization that has a goal of sending and supporting missionaries to foreign countries. To accomplish this goal Seed International, Inc. is actively searching and training candidates in US and abroad.The support for this function is through contributions from churches and individuals in the United States and in other countries. Thus far Seed International, Inc supports missionaries spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ in China, Uzbekistan, Thailand, USA, Mexico, East Africa, Chad, Israel, Japan, Uganda and North Korea. The supports for these missionaries include expenses for relocation and travel of their family to living expenses. This is in addition to all expenses for supplies and equipment necessary to carryout their mission.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Training, sending and supporting missionaries to foreign countries.

    $3,960,547 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,960,547.

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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 94 ($3.0M) Expenses 101 ($3.0M) Net assets 97 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 95 ($3.1M) Expenses 104 ($3.1M) Net assets 94 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 99 ($3.2M) Expenses 106 ($3.2M) Net assets 95 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 124 ($4.0M) Expenses 116 ($3.5M) Net assets 122 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 147 ($4.7M) Expenses 150 ($4.5M) Net assets 134 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 136 ($4.4M) Expenses 145 ($4.3M) Net assets 137 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 127 ($4.1M) Expenses 135 ($4.0M) Net assets 134 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 133 ($4.3M) Expenses 138 ($4.1M) Net assets 134 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (138)Net assets (134)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+25%).

$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.5M
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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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SEED International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$226k
’17
−$22k
’18
−$55k
’19
$18k
’20
$516k
’21
$225k
’22
$47k
’23
$53k
’24
$125k
’25
3.2
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.

Chief executive

Eung Yul Ryoo

President & CEO

Board chair

Danny C Ro

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Joined·+0+3+2+0+0+1+0+3
No longer listed·03200104
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $106k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 International 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

SEED International Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 International Inc.

50%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 35% · 2019 64% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 54% — 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

33% of SEED International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of SEED International Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

NJ
CA
FL

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

SEED International Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SEED International Inc

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEED International Inc: 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 International Inc?
SEED International Inc (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,298 to it, the largest being CHOONG HYUN WORLD NEWTHING MISSION INC ($198,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SEED International Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $396,298 in grants to SEED International Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SEED International Inc?
CHOONG HYUN WORLD NEWTHING MISSION INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SEED International Inc 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.

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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 11 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