Seed Studio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455397061
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Durango, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9703359747
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,731
- Expenses
- $145,575
- Assets
- $26,827
- Liabilities
- $1,049
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- CRISTIE SCOTT (BOARD ADVISOR)
- JENNIFER BAYER (BOARD ADVISOR/DOCENT LIAIS)
- ANGIE BUCHANAN (BOARD ADVISOR)
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
Our children's art programs are rooted in fine art principles, combined with contemporary trends, and loaded with individual expression. The significance to our programs are that we place great value in collaboration over competition. We pride ourselves on curating an innovative art curriculum that grows with each child that blends mindfulness practices along with a deep appreciation for our child that blends mindfulness practices along with a deep appreciation for our place in the natural world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Seed studio plants seeds of self-expression, creativity, and mindfulness through art. Specifically art classes. Seed focuses on a single skill: art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.