Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SEEDS OF PEACE INC
SEEDS OF PEACE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 294 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,134,732 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,101,250). 165 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 294
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Seeds of Peace Inc does
Mission
Seeds of peace inspires and cultivates new generations of global leaders in communities divided by conflict. We equip them with the skills and relationships they need to accelerate social, economic, and political changes essential for peace.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
United states in the united states, youth had the opportunity to participate in a range of virtual program options throughout the 2021 program year. All seeds of peace us programs continued in virtual spaces and were made available to any youth across the us, whether they had participated in programs in the past, or were entirely new to the organization. All programs centered around the four core focus areas: dialogue, leadership, community-building, and action-taking. As the pandemic continued, seeds of peace adopted a new entry point for future seeds of peace program involvement called the core leadership program. The program offers a series of workshops, dialogues, and leadership and action-taking opportunities as part of a tight-knit cohort of young people from around the country representing different backgrounds, identity groups, and lived experiences. In the summer, youth where offered the opportunity to attend two core leadership programs virtually and the in-person seeds of peace camp for us participants only. In the fall and spring, seeds of peace offered virtual monthly roundtable with topics like understanding systems of oppression. Additional programs offered included…
$2,771,008 spentof which $174,050 as grants$995,205 earned by the program72% of program spendingMiddle east in palestine, virtual programs began to shift to in person and seeds of peace welcomed 25 new youth into bassmeh, the local version of the core leadership program. Meanwhile, in israel, staff conducted an array of virtual programs for seeds and introduced a cohort of new youth into the in-person core leadership programming. In jordan, seeds began to meet in person again and came together around the core leadership program called rise. This version of the core leadership program was broken into four modules that included titles like "stronger than all of the armies," "islands of sanity, and "from gandhi to floyd". Kids4peace continued programing in jerusalem with youth in middle school. Binational meetings were held biweekly during the school year and focused on interfaith aspects of creating more just and inclusive societies. As the pandemic evolved, meetings were both in person and virtual. Programing was stopped in may of 2021 during an intense escalation of conflict in the region, and after several support sessions came back during the next school year.
$570,790 spent15% of program spendingMultinational in 2023, gather focused on building local hubs in east jerusalem, ramallah, and tel aviv to foster collective action and increase its impact in palestine and israel. In east jerusalem, we partnered with sinsila, a palestinian organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and empowering local communities. In july, we ran a month-long program that included community dialogue circles, design thinking skill building sessions, and project-based action to better the lives of the people living there. This has resulted in a group of approximately 30 palestinians who have continued to meet, beyond the duration of the program, to work collectively for the sake of their neighbors and the community. In tel aviv, gather partnered with zlilim, a new artists union, to begin building its tel aviv hub. The group of 20 artists have focused on developing creative strategies to make the region more democratic, inclusive, just, and peaceful. We closed out our 202 fellowship class and began recruitment for our next cohort, focused on community organized, which officially launched in 2022. We also convened our first gather advisory council, a group of 14 past gather fellows that worked…
$355,031 spent9% of program spendingProgram administration provides program administration, evaluation, and monitoring of program activities.
$175,812 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,872,641.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $2.7M (−37%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 19% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SEEDS OF PEACE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 86 funders to 95 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.5M.
34 of 294 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 OF PEACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 294 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
SEEDS OF PEACE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
45% 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 OF PEACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% — 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
36% of SEEDS OF PEACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
SEEDS OF PEACE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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 OF PEACE INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEEDS OF PEACE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $874k on record — $874k federal, $21 state.
- Department of State$874k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $21
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 SEEDS OF PEACE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEEDS OF PEACE 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 OF PEACE INC?
- SEEDS OF PEACE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 294 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,134,732 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,101,250). 165 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEEDS OF PEACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 294 organizations giving $21,134,732 in grants to SEEDS OF PEACE INC, 165 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEEDS OF PEACE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,101,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEEDS OF PEACE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 294 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