Maryland · Nonprofit
THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND
THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,165,322 to it, the largest being SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION ($875,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $30M
What The Seed School of Maryland does
Mission
The Seed School of Maryland (seed maryland) is a statewide, public, college-preparatory boarding school offering an extraordinary learning and living experience in preparation for college and beyond. The maryland general assembly passed legislation to establish the school which receives state, local and private funds. The maryland state dept. Of education (msde) oversees the school and holds it accountable to state and federal standards for teaching and learning. By design and state-law, seed maryland serves students who could most benefit from our 24-hour learning environment.
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.
$19,173,663 spentof which $40,846 as grants$18,524,581 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,173,663.
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 2023 to 2024, from $44M to $47M (+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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% · 2024 26% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Trustee/CEO seed fnd
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $205k → $402k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SCHOOL OF MARYLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
54% 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 SCHOOL OF MARYLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 47% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 47% · 2022 36% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SCHOOL OF MARYLAND is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67.3M on record.
- Grant$67.3M
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 THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 Public Charter School of Washington DC · exempt
- Seed Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: 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 SCHOOL OF MARYLAND?
- THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,165,322 to it, the largest being SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION ($875,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,165,322 in grants to THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND?
- SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 38 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