NATIVE SEEDS SOUTHWESTRN ENDANGERED ARIDLAND RESOURCES CLEARING HOUSE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C300

Classification

1000

Street

3584 E RIVER RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• CONSERVATION: THIS PROGRAM OVERSEES THE GROWING OUT AND REGENERATION OF SEEDS IN OUR CONSERVATION CENTER GARDEN, MANAGEMENT OF THE SEED BANK COLLECTION, INCLUDING GERMINATION TESTING, CONDUCTING SEED INVENTORIES, CLEANING AND PACKING SEEDS AND COORDINATING WITH DISTRIBUTION. THE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT ALSO COORDINATED WITH PARTNER FARMERS TO GROW OUT AND REGENERATE RARE AND ENDANGERED SEEDS. IN 2025, BETWEEN THE NS/S CONSERVATION CENTER GARDENS IN TUCSON AND OVER 18 REGIONAL PARTNER FARMERS, WE SUCCESSFULLY GREW OVER 65 ACCESSIONS FOR REGENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION.

  Expenses $672,452

• DISTRIBUTION: OUR DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT PROVIDES ACCESS TO HEIRLOOM SEEDS STEWARDED AND MANAGED BY NS/S THROUGH SALES AND FREE SEED ACCESS PROGRAMS. SEEDS AND PLANT STARTS ARE SOLD THROUGH THE ONLINE STORE AND AT PLANT SALES. COMMUNITY SEED ACCESS PROGRAMS FOR NATIVE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND TRIBES ARE MANAGED TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO CULTURALLY RELEVANT SEEDS. IN 2025, ALMOST 29,000 FREE SEED PACKETS WERE SHARED TO THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AS WELL AS 209 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GARDENS.

  Expenses $423,395 · Revenue $572,894

• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: OUR EDUCATION WORK IS FOCUSED ON PROVIDING RESOURCES AND SUPPORT TO GARDENERS AND FARMERS FROM THE SOUTHWEST, ESPECIALLY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE CONNECTIONS TO THE SEEDS WE STEWARD. WE GIVE PRESENTATIONS, RESOURCES AND TRAINING ON SEED SAVING AND ALSO HOST VISITS AND TOURS OF THE CONSERVATION CENTER, INCLUDING THE GARDEN, SEEDLAB AND SEEDBANK. IN 2025, WE HOSTED AND PRESENTED AT 20 WORKSHOPS ON GARDENING AND SEEDSAVING, PROVIDED 23 TOURS AND VISITS AT THE CONSERVATION CENTER, VISITED SEVERAL FARMS AND COMMUNITY GARDENS TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL CONSULTATION AND PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT, TABLED AT 16 EVENTS TO REPRESENT NS/S AND PRESENTED AT 23 CONFERENCES AND/OR MEETINGS.

  Expenses $149,434 · Revenue $2,381

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,251,272

  Expenses

  $1,678,775

  Contributions

  $1,640,043

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,081,074

  Expenses

  $1,625,852

  Contributions

  $1,421,622

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,493,139

  Expenses

  $1,456,707

  Contributions

  $870,479

  Grants paid

  $33,604

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,456,271

  Expenses

  $1,482,405

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,863,740

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,508,337

  Expenses

  $1,277,416

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,841,922

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,439,275

  Expenses

  $1,124,808

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,708,608

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $940,926

  Expenses

  $1,014,825

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,346,147

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $910,138

  Expenses

  $904,761

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,413,294

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $80,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $35,000

  2024 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA

  $31,250

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA

  $28,250

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $23,100

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  2022 · TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC

  $20,000

  2022 · Partner Grant

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $11,355

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $10,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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