Seed and Light International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030395931
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5129985041
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Agricultural Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$53,669
Expenses
$59,156
Assets
$68,828
Liabilities
$389

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Larry Sallee (President)
  • George Haynes (Vice-President and Director)

People named in this filing

  • Larry Sallee (President)
  • George Haynes (Vice-President and Director)
  • Terry Moore (Secretary/Treasurer and Director)

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

Relief and Development through sustainable gardening programs and alternative technologies.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sustainable Gardening: 23 food garden projects in 18 countries with the capacity to feed in excess of 54,000 poor and needy people. In conjunction with garden projects people were taught to save seed for future plantings and distribution to others, helping to ensure future sustainability and independence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84

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: -10.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 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: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.