New York · Nonprofit
SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC
SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,531 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($86,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Seeds in the Middle Inc does
Mission
(1) organize and promote partnerships between farms, schools, cultural, educational, and non-profit organizations for the purpose of empowering and enriching youth and community activists; (2) to promote and organize gardening, nutrition and cooking education and awareness among youth and community activists; (3) to promote and organize physical fitness activities and health and wellness education for youth and community activists; (4) to assist schools with activities related to professional development, advocacy, education and cultural awareness; (5) to promote and organize music and art education; (6) to build community and partnerships between racial, socioeconomic, religious, gender and age divides by means of the foregoing, and (7) related and incidental activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$264,463 spent$279,130 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,463.
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 $14k to $45k (+231%).
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: 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $7k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE 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
SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 78% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
62% of SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE 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 SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC?
- SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,531 to it, the largest being IN OUR BACKYARDS INC ($86,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $159,531 in grants to SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC?
- IN OUR BACKYARDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing