Freed Seed Federation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822907344
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Westport, MA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,878
- Expenses
- $88,892
- Assets
- $44,499
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benjamin Wolbach (President)
People named in this filing
- William Braun (Executive Dir.)
- Benjamin Wolbach (President)
- Karen Schwalbe (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To fortify regional food resilience from the level of the seed. With our focus on the Northeast US, we join a global network of local efforts to adapt seeds to changing climate and keep seeds in the public domain, free of private ownership
What it reported doing in 2024
To fortify regional food resilience from the level of the seed. With our focus on the Northeast US, we join a global network of local efforts to adapt seeds to changing climate and keep seeds in the public domain, free of private ownership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.