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ETERNAL SEEDS INC

EIN 85-1699102 NEW ORLEANS, LA

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Revenue 2025
$1,653,465
Expenses 2025
$1,292,284

Program services were 60.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
2000
Street
56 YELLOWSTONE DR

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

We are a community-based nonprofit that serves artists in New Orleans. Our work is centered around education empowerment and the preservation of New Orleans Black history and culture with a focus on young and emerging artists. We provide young and emerging artists with tools they need to become the revolutionary leaders and shapers of a more just equitable and artful world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Eternal Seeds is a community-based nonprofit that serves artists in New Orleans. We center all of our work around education empowerment and the preservation of New Orleans Black history and culture with a focus on young and emerging artists. Harnessing the power of creative expression and community we provide young and emerging artists with tools they need to become the revolutionary leaders and shapers of a more just equitable and artful world.

  • Programming to Inspire - Eternal Seeds operates a 36,000 square foot art gallery and living museum called Studio BE. Studio BE serves as a cultural landmark that centers the voices and stories of the Black Experience and invites visitors and artists who havent traditionally felt welcome in art spaces. In addition to a permanent collection of art Eternal Seeds curates special exhibitions and provides guided tours for groups of students and adults.

    Expenses $536,439 · Grants $27,667 · Revenue $346,569

  • Programming to Empower - Eternal Seeds provides opportunities for artists to participate in large projects and commissions.

    Expenses $67,893 · Grants $37,515 · Revenue $94,500

  • Programming to Educate - Eternal Seeds runs two keynote educational programs Summer Session: an arts-intensive for 14-17 year olds where participants gain experience creating art and learn valuable skills to lay the Foundation for future art careers and BElite: a Youth-led student artist collective that creates murals hosts workshops and does art activations.

    Expenses $176,390 · Grants $91,399 · Revenue $15,748

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brandan Odums

    President Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $71,150
    From this org
    $71,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Edward Odums Jr

    Secretary-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Nicole Robinson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,653,465
    Expenses
    $1,292,284
    Contributions
    $1,192,909
    Grants paid
    $156,581
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,131,469
    Expenses
    $967,279
    Contributions
    $1,808,792
    Grants paid
    $122,834
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,698,782
    Expenses
    $388,061
    Contributions
    $1,656,316
    Grants paid
    $77,893
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $275,429
    Expenses
    $200,080
    Contributions
    $241,686
    Grants paid
    $7,700

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

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,833
    Expenses
    $49,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,657

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.

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.