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Seeds of Faith Inc

Hartland, WI · EIN 39-1938697. Reported 60 grants totalling $9,011,040 to 19 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$37,500median grant
$9,011,040granted, 2021-2025
19recipients, as named on its returns
91%of grantees funded again the next year

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Seeds of Faith Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $37,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $12,500 and $60,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $5,928,540. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
16 grants
$100,000 and Up
10 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
DAFGIVING360Omaha, NE$5,928,540112025
Pulse OutreachMinneapolis, MN$750,000552025
St Augustine Preparatory AcademyMilwaukee, WI$500,000222025
CompasscareRochester, NY$280,000442025
Marquette UniversityMilwaukee, WI$280,000552025
Covenant Church of NaplesNaples, FL$215,000432023
Heartlove PlaceMilwaukee, WI$215,000552025
Dignity for the Amputee InternationalCorcoran, MN$195,000332025
Telling the TruthBrookfield, WI$110,000552025
Shell Point Legacy FoundationFort Myers, FL$102,500442025
Liberty Youth RanchBonita Springs, FL$95,000222022
Macc FundMilwaukee, WI$80,000222025
Pregnancy Resource CenterEstero, FL$60,000552025
Life in Christ MediaNew Berlin, WI$55,000222022
Echo IncNorth Fort Myers, FL$50,000552025
Marquette University College of EngineeringMilwaukee, WI$40,000222022
Child Evangelism FellowshipWarrenton, MO$25,000112022
Wisconsin Inmate Education AssociationBrookfield, WI$20,000222022
Patient Advocate FoundationHampton, VA$10,000112021

16 of 19 (84%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 91%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 52 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
14 grants
Health Care
12 grants
Education
8 grants
Human Services
7 grants
International Affairs
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$520,000$20,000
202214$605,000$22,500
202310$500,000$45,000
202411$670,000$50,000
202512$6,716,040$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

66% of its giving went to organizations in Nebraska. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Nebraska
$5.9M
Wisconsin
$1.3M
Minnesota
$945K
Florida
$522K
New York
$280K
Missouri
$25K
Virginia
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $37,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Nebraska.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Seeds of Faith Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 197, Hartland, WI, 53029. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 39-1938697 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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