Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC
THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,394 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($90,916). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $20M
What The Seed Public Charter School of Washington DC does
Mission
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for success in college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide outstanding intensive residential education program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for success in college.
$16,671,613 spentof which $3,750 as grants$16,377,907 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,671,613.
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 2024 to 2025, from $23M to $22M (−7%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lesley Poole
Board member / CEO seed fdtn
Board chair
Desa Sealy
Board chair thru 6/30/25
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $41k → $15k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC’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 PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 60% · 2019 95% · 2020 48% · 2021 90% · 2022 91% · 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
38% of THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
71% of THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC'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 $59k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $206k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Seed Foundation · exempt
- The Seed School of Maryland · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC: 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 PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC?
- THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,394 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($90,916). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $206,394 in grants to THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $90,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SEED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON DC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing