Seeds & Water Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473974559
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Holmes Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4199449657
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,322
- Expenses
- $323,078
- Assets
- $17,571
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN BAUMAN (PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
Highest reported compensation
- BENJAMIN BAUMAN (PRESIDENT & TREASURER): $139,969 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BAUMAN (SECRETARY): $124,608 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Seeds & water foundation engages with non-profits, providing organizational coaching, strategic connections and funding strategies for long-term sustainability and growth for the kingdom of god. Seeds and water then connects donors with trusted and impactful non-profit organizations in the united states and around the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
As requests for assistance are received from other non-profits, we perform reviews to determine if we can assist, taking into consideration the willingness of the organization to implement improvements. Once the non-profits are verified to be both financially responsible and effective, we are then confident in recommending them to other donors and enable anyone to donate directly to them through our website.
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 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -75.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.