Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Seed Farm
The Seed Farm (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,320 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $50k
What The Seed Farm does
Mission
The mission of The Seed Farm (TSF) is to cultivate the next generation of farmers. The purposes of TSF are to 1) provide land, training, infrastructure and other support for new farmers to start their own agricultural enterprises; 2) help mentor new and existing area farmers through a network of experienced Lehigh Valley farmers who have successfully adopted sustainable production and marketing systems; and 3) create a demonstration model of profitable and sustainable agricultural enterprises for new and existing farmers.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Farm Business Incubator: The Seed Farm's farm business incubator provided new farmers with access to land, equipment, infrastructure, mentoring, market opportunities, and more, at reduced rates. During the 2018 growing season, three new farmers received access to these critical and often cost-prohibitive resources. This access allowed them to launch and grow their businesses, receiving intensive support during the risky and expensive first few years of farm ownership. While at The Seed Farm, new farmers receive ongoing instruction on environmentally sustainable growing practices, build credit and a customer base, and lay a solid foundation for their new farms. Incubator farmers must submit annual reports, sharing their income and expenses, challenges and successes from the past year, to The Seed Farm's program committee for review and feedback from experienced growers and educators. Three incubator farms operated on site in 2018, growing cut flowers and raising bees for honey, and selling throughout the greater Lehigh Valley.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $19k to $50k (+162%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $47k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of The Seed Farm’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
The Seed Farm leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 60% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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
20% of The Seed Farm's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
75% of The Seed Farm's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
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 The Seed Farm: 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 The Seed Farm?
- The Seed Farm (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,320 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Seed Farm have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $161,320 in grants to The Seed Farm, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Seed Farm?
- HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Seed Farm find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 8 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