Sowing Seeds for Life

Analysis

Sowing Seeds for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Verne, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sowing Seeds for Life reported income of $4.4m and spending of $4.4m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.8m to $4.4m (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sowing Seeds for Life sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth Network Council ($4.4m), Winfield Rest Haven Inc ($4.4m) and Carrie Steele Pitts Home Inc ($4.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $100k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $108k, net assets of $1.1m.