Arizona · Nonprofit
SEED SPOT
SEED SPOT (Arizona) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,806,379 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($951,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. SEED SPOT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
SEED SPOT administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSEED SPOT runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$93k
Recipients
12
Contributions on record
$3.8M
Donors on record
30
Payments out are 0.02x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared funders
- Vilcap Incportfolio match
- Nasdaq Educational Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 1% · 2020 16% · 2021 30% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $647k → $309k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SPOT’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.
Where its funders are
SEED SPOT draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $918k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared fundersAZ · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nasdaq Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Concrete Rose Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Profit Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Affirm Caresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Meridian Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goldman Sachs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hopelab Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Business Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PC Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Valley of the Sun United Wayshared fundersAZ · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SEED SPOT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.
- Department of Commerce$299k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEED SPOT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SEED SPOT?
- SEED SPOT (Arizona) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,806,379 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($951,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. SEED SPOT administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does SEED SPOT have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,806,379 in grants to SEED SPOT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEED SPOT?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $951,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEED SPOT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing