I Planted a Seed Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260624612
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Fort Myers, FL, USA
Phone
9313748677
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,406
Expenses
$85,490
Assets
$206
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alex Zanetti Rocha (President)
  • Cleber Zanetti (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Alex Zanetti Rocha (President)
  • Janet Harper (Director)
  • Sharon Jones (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To support missionary outreach work overseas to enable missionaries to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing flood relief in the form of food and clothing distribution, clean up crews, mental and emotional comfort for those affected by the floods. Helping rebuild a home of one family. Ongoing for the whole year off and on as needed as the cleanup is extensive and people still in bad living situations. Suicides continue so it is urgent. Providing matresses. Approximately 200 people helped. Mentoring of young people some of which are involved in risky activities helping them to find a good and healthy path for their lives. Approximately 85 youth. This work involves snacks and transportation. Offering comfort to the dying or sick and family members of the dying including companion in hospital stays which is a requirement in Brazil. Approximately 10 people and their families. Giving spiritual/physical assistance to special needs people such as Down syndrome, blind, wheelchair bound and mentally slow. Also helping those involved in drugs and also affected by AIDS. Approximately 25 people and their families. Seven different locations spiritual, emotional and physical assistance 26 times a week, affecting approximately 250 people. Camps for people of all ages. 10 per year. Approximately 300 people. Special women's meetings to encourage and help women in two places involving 30 women. Special men's meetings to deal with men's issues specifically once a month involving around 30 men. Trips twice in the year to Special areas with intent of impact in those areas affecting 400 people.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.