Seedmoney
Scarborough, ME · EIN 56-2389230. Reported 20 grants totalling $169,210 to 20 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Seedmoney, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,120. Half of what it reported fell between $5,797 and $11,639; the smallest was $5,019 and the largest $15,600. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Farm Community | Middletown, NY | $15,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Love Your Neighbor Rescue Mission International | Tampa, FL | $12,290 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Happyville Community Farm Inc | Idaho Falls, ID | $11,975 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| John Muir Foundation | Glendale, CA | $11,967 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Earth Center Conservancy | N Brunswick, NJ | $11,639 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Mill Valley Childrens Garden | Mill Valley, CA | $10,708 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harvesting 4 Haiti Foundation | Perrysburg, OH | $10,320 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Give Hope Fight Poverty Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $9,767 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Okeechobee Adventist Christian School | Okeechobee, FL | $8,685 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Howard Crook Foundation Inc | Natick, MA | $7,465 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA Grande Elementary School District | CASA Grande, AZ | $6,775 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coppell Community Garden Corporation | Coppell, TX | $6,735 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Full Circle Education Incorporated | Victor, ID | $6,150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornerspring Montessori School | Belfast, ME | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Berwick Community Garden Inc | Berwick, ME | $5,797 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fellowship Bible Church | Tulsa, OK | $5,770 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mmcg Inc | Madison, GA | $5,645 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oxford Hills Community Gardens | Norway, ME | $5,463 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garden District Corporation | Columbus, OH | $5,440 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garden Time Inc | Providence, RI | $5,019 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Freedom Farm Community
General support for community food garden project (2024 SeedMoney Challenge) - Coppell Sustainable Food Organization
General support - partner grant for community food garden work
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 20 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
13% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,120 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Seedmoney's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3 Powderhorn Drive, Scarborough, ME, 04074.
EIN 56-2389230 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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