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Seeding the Future Foundation Grants

Private foundation · EIN 47-4718771 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025

Total grants paid
$3.8M
Grants reported
35
Typical grant
$90K
Future commitments

Reported commitments not yet paid.

Not reported

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: Seeding the Future Foundation

Giving by tax year

Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.

Tax yearGrants paidAmount
202514$1.9M
202421$1.8M

Where Seeding the Future Foundation gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

Institute of Food Technologists Inc

CHICAGO, IL

$761.7KTax year 2025

Grant purpose

Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge Award Fund

National Philanthropic Trust

JENKINTOWN, PA

$250KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

General & Unrestricted

Institute of Food Technologists Inc

CHICAGO, IL

$200KTax year 2025

Grant purpose

Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge - 8 Award Fund

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CAMBRIDGE, MA

$200KTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Solve Challenge AND General Operations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BOSTON, MA

$200KTax year 2025

Grant purpose

Solve Challenge fund and general operating fund

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from Seeding the Future Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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