BRAIDED SEEDS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C60

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 58512

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 · 2025

• Braided Seeds distributed 615 passes to local and national public lands including Washington State Discover Passes and 101 America the Beautiful National Park Passes. These passes expanded equitable access to public lands. These passes enabled families and individuals to visit parks and natural areas across Washington State and beyond reducing financial barriers to outdoor recreation and environmental learning. Through this program access to outdoor spaces was expanded for approximately 2,339 community members statewide supporting environmental justice by increasing opportunities for historically underrepresented communities to connect with and steward public lands.

  Expenses $34,750

• Braided Seeds facilitated and participated in 12 community days and events designed to expand equitable access to outdoor spaces and environmental learning. Programs included a BIPOC Wilderness First Aid WFA course community sponsorship initiatives supporting more than 445 participants and an international Back to the Root learning exchange in Ghana that connected participants to land-based knowledge environmental stewardship practices and cultural heritage. Through our community gear library over 100 community members benefited from borrowing outdoor equipment to safely explore natural areas across Washington State. These efforts advance environmental justice by reducing financial and access barriers to outdoor recreation safety training and environmental engagement for historically underrepresented communities.

  Expenses $76,940 · Revenue $672

• Braided Seeds provided youth-centered outdoor education programs that increase equitable access to nature environmental education and culturally grounded learning opportunities for youth in King County and Pierce County. Youth participated in activities such as snowshoeing horseback riding kayaking youth campouts youth farming experiences and other hands-on educational programs that build environmental knowledge and confidence in outdoor spaces. Through partnerships with local organizations Braided Seeds also facilitated ongoing environmental education enrichment and weekly youth reclamation trips. These programs support environmental justice by expanding access to outdoor learning for communities historically excluded from environmental spaces while fostering youth leadership environmental stewardship and meaningful connections to land and place.

  Expenses $96,343 · Revenue $9,300

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $312,734

  Expenses

  $306,805

  Contributions

  $301,103

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $244,133

  Expenses

  $234,211

  Contributions

  $229,657

  Grants paid

  $8,136

• 2023

  Revenue

  $196,680

  Expenses

  $175,516

  Contributions

  $184,534

  Grants paid

  — not reported

• 2022

  Revenue

  $94,328

  Expenses

  $90,333

  Contributions

  $67,138

  Grants paid

  — not reported

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

  $96,785

  Expenses

  $45,425

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,360

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

• NEXT 100 SYNDICATE

  $28,000

  2024 · FOREST PROGRAMS

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $20,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT JOY AND WELLNESS FOR STAFF WITHIN BLACK-LED ORGANIZATIONS IN KING COUNTY

• SCHOOLS OUT WASHINGTON

  $11,000

  2022 · OSPI SUMMER

• REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND

  $10,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND

  $10,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $7,500

  2022 · TO SUPPORT KENT BIPOC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES EXPERIENCE NATURE

• SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION

  $5,375

  2023 · FOR SHARED LEARNING ACTION TEAM PARTICIPATION

• THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION

  $1,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT LEARNING AND CAPACITY BUILDING

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