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Seeding the Future Foundation: 14 grants to organizations, $1.9 million (tax year ended December 2025)
Seeding the Future Foundation, a private foundation in Wilmington, DE, paid 14 grants to organizations totaling $1,941,241 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on April 24, 2026. The largest was $761,741 to Institute of Food Technologists Inc in Chicago, IL for seeding the future global food system challenge award fund.
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- EIN
- 474718771
- Based in
- Wilmington, DE
- Assets
- $42,591,845
- Grants paid
- $1,941,241
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed April 24, 2026, IRS object ID 202611149349100806. It reported $1,941,241 in grants paid; 14 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge Award Fund | $761,741 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge - 8 Award Fund | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Boston, MA | Solve Challenge fund and general operating fund | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge | $160,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Extreme Tech Challenge | Palo Alto, CA | World Food Forum Start up Innovation Award 2025 Sponsorship & Transformative Research Challenge | Science and technology | $135,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | Support for Building 2 Baking Ovens locally and Nutrition Support Centers in Gaza | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Project Drawdown | New York, NY | Drawdown Food Solution Solutions Project | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | The Future Food System Innovation Lab | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | Seeding The Future INNOLAB Funding | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Potsdam-Institut Fur Klimafolgenforschung E V | Potsdam, GM | Nitrogen dynamics in global biogeochemical cycles and food system transformation pathways | $58,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| GDP Research Alliance | Rosemont, IL | Accelerator Mentorship Program for Women-led SMEs in Africa - led by Robynne Anderson | Science and technology | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | Charitable Event | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Center for Food Ontology Operability | Davis, CA | Research Fund to Create a Personalized Sustainable Nutrition Knowledge Graph | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | General & Unrestricted | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed May 9, 2025, IRS object ID 202501299349100935. It reported $1,823,513 in grants paid; 21 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | General & Unrestricted | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Solve Challenge AND General Operations | Education | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | The Sustainable Food Systems Forum | Education | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | InnoLab, Liberia Project and Digital Literacy fund | $185,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Project Drawdown | New York, NY | Drawdown Food Solution Solutions Project | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Challenge - Food as Medicine | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | The Future Food System Innovation Lab | Education | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Universitat Hohenheim | Stuttgart, GM | Strengthening farmer cooperatives in Rwanda through participatory development of PV-powered postharvest processing of maize | $93,063 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research | Muncheberg, GM | The Effect of Liming on Crop Production - Phase 2 | $90,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | Promotion of Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger - Part II | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | Washington, DC | To support half the costs of four nonprofit Food Leaders Fellows from 2023-2025 | Social science | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Ucla Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy Endowment FUND | Education | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Association for the Advancement of the Global Bioe | Berlin, GM | Support of the Global BioEconomy Summit 2024 | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | participation fund for of all winners from the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge at the IFT FIRST event in Chicago | $25,200 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | FIRST 2024 VIP Networking event | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | Seeding The Future Global Food System Innovation Library Application | $21,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | SEEDING THE FUTURE fund FOR FUN RUN AT IFT FIRST 2024 | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Center for Food Ontology Operability | Davis, CA | Seeding the future fund for fun run at ift first 2024 | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute of Food Technologists Inc | Chicago, IL | Data Integration fund | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev | Bonn, GM | General & Unrestricted | $750 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $760,000 |
| Science and technology | $165,000 |
| Social science | $75,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Illinois | $1,226,441 |
| Massachusetts | $700,000 |
| Pennsylvania | $250,000 |
| California | $215,000 |
| New York | $200,000 |
| Minnesota | $200,000 |
| District of Columbia | $75,000 |
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Updated April 24, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.