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SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC

SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,936 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,962). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$219k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$695k
Net assets
$1.4M
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Southeastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces Inc does

Mission

Seeds educates youth and adults through gardening, growing food and cultivating respect for life, for earth and for each other.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Inspire and support with education and training neighborhood-based community gardens and greening efforts: improve durham cityscape by providing landscaping to affordable housing projects and others; public outreach programs and demonstration gardens that provide environmental and community gardening education.

    $223,698 spent$9,216 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $223,698.

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 ($461k) Expenses 100 ($394k) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 96 ($440k) Expenses 101 ($399k) Net assets 102 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 89 ($412k) Expenses 112 ($443k) Net assets 101 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 92 ($423k) Expenses 128 ($506k) Net assets 96 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 91 ($418k) Expenses 143 ($564k) Net assets 88 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 67 ($310k) Expenses 87 ($343k) Net assets 86 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 68 ($314k) Expenses 84 ($333k) Net assets 85 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 35 ($161k) Expenses 73 ($289k) Net assets 78 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 48 ($219k) Expenses 70 ($275k) Net assets 75 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (48)Expenses (70)Net assets (75)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 $1.9M to $1.6M (−12%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
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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: 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
$41k
’18
−$32k
’19
−$83k
’20
−$146k
’21
−$32k
’22
−$19k
’23
−$128k
’24
−$55k
’25
11
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.

Board chair

Julie Wells

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1314131217109811
Joined·+1+1+5+9+6+4+2+8
No longer listed·026413535
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $104k → $23k.

9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES 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

SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

55% 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 SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC.

23%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 45% · 2019 45% · 2020 40% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 67% — 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

19% of SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $332k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states.

PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC?
SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,936 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($160,962). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $694,936 in grants to SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC?
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 20 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