- 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 BollingerMIKE BOLLINGER
EX. DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $129,356
- From this org
- $118,899
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,457
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Lynne RillingLYNNE RILLING
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $99,889
- From this org
- $89,147
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,742
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Peggy MillerPEGGY MILLER
TREASURER/SE
- Total calculated
- $83,376
- From this org
- $70,253
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,123
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Carina CavagnaroCARINA CAVAGNARO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Denise CostichDENISE COSTICH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Devin FooteDEVIN FOOTE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Neil HamiltonNEIL HAMILTON
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Elizabeth SchniedersELIZABETH SCHNIEDERS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Sean ShermanSEAN SHERMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Diane Ott WhealyDIANE OTT WHEALY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Teresa WiemerslageTERESA 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
-
$70,000
2024 $50K GENERAL SUPPORT/$20K REMATRIATION PROGRAM
-
$50,500
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$40,000
2023 TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT.
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$30,000
2022 TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2022 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$18,450
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$13,500
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
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.