South East Europe Development Solutions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203971956
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5713383993
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,447
- Expenses
- $27,075
- Assets
- $11,592
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE COLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER F BRAGDON (BOARD MEMBER)
- CHAMBRI SWARTZ (SECRETARY)
- LILLIAN AOKI (TREASURER)
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
Humanitarian and development agency to provide human resources and financial support for local development projects in bosnia and herzegovina.
What it reported doing in 2025
As part of seeds' grant "education, empowerment, prosperity in bih 2020" to the bosnia-based organization bild, seeds provided direct project funding and financed bosnia-based personnel for an on-going software programming training project which teaches introductory and advanced software skills to young people in northeastern bosnia-herzegovina. The skills taught include java, javascript, sql, html/css as the basis for becoming full stack professional software developers. At the beginning of 2020, 107 youth participated in software development training consisting of twenty-five 3 hour in-person classes and 15 weeks of daily online assignments with code review. However, due to covid, bild stopped classes and allowed trainees to review course material on their own online, do assignments at their own pace, and ask for help from bild's online mentors when needed. Each week, bild mentors provide approximately 4 to 10 hours of online mentoring for active participants. In lieu of bild's annual tuzla summer institute, bild held online workshops on introductory java for approximately 75 high school students and advanced software architecture for 7 professional software developers. Seeds also provided direct project funding for an on-going women's empowerment project which, through subsidies and management assistance, helps women harness their collective purchasing power and purchase chicken food and baby chicks at a discounted rate. This project consisted of chicken food and chick deliveries in the spring and fall to four participating women's associations representing 137 families in the municipality of zvornik in northeastern bosnia along the drina river.
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 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.