Seed Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852334231
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Menifee, CA, USA
Phone
9515634460
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$266,666
Expenses
$264,643
Assets
$60,438
Liabilities
$8,182

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSEPH PATRICK POSADAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DORIAN ESCAMILLA (PRESIDENT)
  • GERARDO CUEVAS (VICE-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOSEPH PATRICK POSADAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $79,583 total reported compensation
  • MARYLOU POSADAS (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $68,542 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To support system-impacted youth in their educational journey to encourage and ensure a successful transition to adulthood.

What it reported doing in 2025

On-campus support program - we served over 120+ middle and high school students across 9 schools. Students learned about many topics such as: goal-setting, financial leteracy, mental health, college and career. Over 10 of our students graduated from high school and over half went directly to a college or university. We also celebrate the holidays and birthdays for our students by getting them all gifts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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 and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 5
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 44
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.3%; rating input score 6
  • Program expense ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 6
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -47% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.3% of revenue deployed · 6.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.