Sowing Seeds Limited

Analysis

Sowing Seeds Limited is a registered charity in United States, based in Marshfield, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sowing Seeds Limited reported income of $130k and spending of $73k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $80k to $130k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sowing Seeds Limited sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dairy Council of Michigan Inc ($130k), Nebraska Panhandle Area Health Education Center Inc ($130k) and Al-Ridwane Muslim Center Inc ($130k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $685k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $685k.