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SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC

EIN 43-1214133 DECORAH, IA

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Revenue 2024
$6,924,373
Expenses 2024
$6,462,557

Program services were 69.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K200
Classification
1000
Street
3094 N WINN 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

Mission

DEDICATED TO SAVING SEEDS OF ENDANGERED GARDEN & FOOD CROPS, BY DEVELOPING A GRASSROOTS NETWORK OF GARDENERS & ORCHARDISTS WHO WORK TOGETHER TO COLLECT, MAINTAIN, & DISTRIBUTE TRADITIONAL VARIETIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PRESERVATION OF HERITAGE SEEDS.

  • SALES OF SEEDS AND PLANTS TO THE PUBLIC IN ORDER TO EFFECT AND DEMONSTRATE "LOST TO THE ECOSYSTEM" NON-HYBRID SEED VARIETIES CAN BE REINTRODUCED THROUGH GROWERS' ACCEPTANCE. CULTIVATION OF SUCH OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE SEEDS HAVE BEEN PREPSERVED IN THE ORGANIZATION'S SEEDBANK, AND THEIR ENSUING DISTRIBUTION AND SALE IS A "SUBSTANTIALLY RELATED" DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITY.

    Expenses $3,252,918 · Revenue $2,336,249

  • PUBLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE ORGANIZATIONS 7,708 MEMBERS WHO GROW AND EXCHANGE SEED OF ENDANGERED FOOD CROPS.

    Expenses $175,135 · Revenue $291,848

  • OPERATE HERITAGE FARM AS A VISITOR CENTER AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER DEVELOPING A NETWORK OF ISOLATION GARDENS TO PREVENT CROSS-POLLINATION AND CONTAIMATION FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS. GROWING GARDENS AND GENETIC PRESERVATION PROJECTS NECESSARY FOR MAINTAINING SEED COLLECTION OF 20,000 RARE VEGETABLE AND FRUIT VARIETIES THAT WOULD OTHERWISE LIKELY BECOME EXTINCT.

    Expenses $964,070

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDE MAINTAINING A BREEDING HERD OF THREATENED WHITE PARK CATTLE AND HOLD THE ANNUAL CONVENTION.

    Expenses $70,341 · Revenue $13,375

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Mike Bollinger

    EX. DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $129,356
    From this org
    $118,899
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,457
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lynne Rilling

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $99,889
    From this org
    $89,147
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,742
    Hours/week
    40
  • Peggy Miller

    TREASURER/SE

    Total calculated
    $83,376
    From this org
    $70,253
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,123
    Hours/week
    40
  • Carina Cavagnaro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Denise Costich

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Devin Foote

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Neil Hamilton

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Elizabeth Schnieders

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sean Sherman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Diane Ott Whealy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Teresa Wiemerslage

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $6,924,373
    Expenses
    $6,462,557
    Contributions
    $2,760,918
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,990,252
    Expenses
    $6,513,867
    Contributions
    $1,502,306
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,423,504
    Expenses
    $6,508,152
    Contributions
    $1,569,608
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $7,518,136
    Expenses
    $6,615,548
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,190,481
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,206,101
    Expenses
    $6,433,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,798,441
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,859,116
    Expenses
    $5,942,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,340,832
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,299,252
    Expenses
    $5,445,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,921,594

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

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 13 October 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.