Seeds for A Future
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412206020
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Prescott, AZ, USA
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,255,020
- Expenses
- $119,539
- Assets
- $1,171,667
- Liabilities
- $7,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suzanne de Berge (President/Treasurer)
- Leiana Yats (Executive Director)
- Joy Mee (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Leiana Yats (Executive Director): $19,316 total reported compensation
- Christopher Warren (Development Director): $13,212 total reported compensation
- Lisa Massey (Bookkeeping): $1,275 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing rural families & communities with training, resources & ongoing support to sustainably grow food and raise small animals (chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc.) to increase their access to nuitritional food and develop more economic opportunties
What it reported doing in 2024
Direct Service - Standard Programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - Most filed governance safeguards are in place and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 48
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.1%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 61%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 90.5%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.8; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.1% of revenue deployed · 61% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.