Living Seeds Initiative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320235373
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
VAN, TX, USA
Phone
9032162567
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,478
Expenses
$32,115
Assets
$72,185
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLES EUGENE TATE (PRESIDENT - COFOUNDER)

People named in this filing

  • CHARLES EUGENE TATE (PRESIDENT - COFOUNDER)
  • GRETCHEN KAY TATE (SECRETARY - COFOUNDER)
  • MARK A THOMPSON (CHAIRMAN)

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 provide educational opportunities to individuals in or serving in impoverished communities and to promote the health, safety, and well being of families in those communities and enhance their ability to live productive lives and combat hunger and poverty. The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided training to individuals and groups both stateside and internationally. Participant nationalities included Uganda, South Sudan, and the USA. Participants and individuals received training and consulting to be equipped to serve and build capacity among the poor and disadvantaged. Living Seeds Initiative, through a combination of classroom theory, group processing and hands on application, trained and equipped the participants in people centered, biblically based agriculture development, regenerative conservation agriculture, organic food growing techniques and practiced hands on applications. Participants learned effective ways to work with the poor and disadvantaged, gained understanding of the roots of poverty, discovered the potential of people to become self sustaining and gained competence in the role of the local church in facilitating this transformation. The training also enabled networking and collaboration opportunities for the participants and future opportunities for Living Seeds Initiative training and service.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76

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: 36.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.