Seed Operations Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830959063
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
9292504298
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$100,000
Expenses
$76,600
Assets
$54,025
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARNEL SCOTT (PRESIDENT)
  • MARYAM YAZDI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARYAM YAZDI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $16,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Seed operations provides individuals and organizations with access to an online information portal, which consists of academic-level content pertaining to human rights and related social issues. Seed operations produces projects that help empower independent, nonviolent human rights activists and helps raise higher awareness about human rights and related social issues. Seed operations has produced two projects: (i)wage and (ii) the oslo women's rights initiative. Wage will be a recurring crowdfunding website intended to connect independent, nonviolent activists with philantropists.

What it reported doing in 2022

Oslo women's rights initiative: it connect women human rights experts from the middle east & north africa region with one another and the resources they need. We have launched joint projects on a range of issues, including one focused on addressing gender-based violence. Every year we hold a conference in partnership with the nobel peace center and the norwegian think tank civita to amplify the voices of women on the front-lines so they can reach a broader, global audience.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 19
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 16
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 18.9%; rating input score 19
  • Program expense ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 25
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -51.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 18.9% of revenue deployed · 24.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2022
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.