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Seeding the Future Foundation

Name: Seeding the Future Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

98
grants reported: $7.9M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

food challenge system future global seeding nutrition policy

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Institute of Food Technologists18 grants · $3.6M
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev11 grants · $753,250
Trustees of Tufts College8 grants · $680,000
University of Minnesota Foundation6 grants · $551,350
National Philanthropic Trust2 grants · $420,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 grants · $400,000
Project Drawdown2 grants · $200,000
Universitat Hohenheim3 grants · $174,758
The Aspen Institute2 grants · $150,000
Extreme Tech Challenge1 grant · $135,000

Giving over time

$2.2M

2022

$1.9M

2023

$1.8M

2024

$1.9M

2025

Grant history

All 98 reported grants, largest first.

$1.2M
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2022
The Global Food System Challenge
$1.1M
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2023
The Global Food System Challenge FUND
$761,741
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2025
Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge Award Fund
$250,000
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$200,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2025
Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge - 8 Award Fund
$200,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Boston, MA · 2025
Solve Challenge fund and general operating fund
$200,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Solve Challenge AND General Operations
$200,000
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
The Sustainable Food Systems Forum
$185,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2024
InnoLab, Liberia Project and Digital Literacy fund
$170,000
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$160,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2025
Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
$150,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
$135,000
Extreme Tech Challenge · Palo Alto, CA · 2025
World Food Forum Start up Innovation Award 2025 Sponsorship & Transformative Research Challenge
$125,000
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
the seed research projects from the Salon
$125,000
Second Harvest Heartland · Brooklyn Park, MN · 2022
Second Harvest Heartland's early efforts in their yet-to-be-disclosed Hunger Moonshot which works to cut food insecurity in half by 2030
$125,000
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
the seed research projects from the Salon
$100,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2025
Support for Building 2 Baking Ovens locally and Nutrition Support Centers in Gaza
$100,000
Project Drawdown · New York, NY · 2025
Drawdown Food Solution Solutions Project
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2025
The Future Food System Innovation Lab
$100,000
Project Drawdown · New York, NY · 2024
Drawdown Food Solution Solutions Project
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2024
The Future Food System Innovation Lab
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2024
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Challenge - Food as Medicine
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2023
the Seeding The Future Food System Innovation Lab fund
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2023
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Challenge - Food as Medicine
$100,000
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Regenerative food systems initiatives - ione 2023
$100,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2022
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Challenge - Food as Medicine program
$93,063
Universitat Hohenheim · 2024
Strengthening farmer cooperatives in Rwanda through participatory development of PV-powered postharvest processing of maize
$90,000
Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research · 2024
The Effect of Liming on Crop Production - Phase 2
$81,842
Eit Food · 2023
EIT "Food FutureFoodMakers" fund
$77,600
Universitat Hohenheim · 2022
Modification of the EasyDry M500 dryer - Rwanda
$75,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2025
Seeding The Future INNOLAB Funding
$75,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2024
Promotion of Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger - Part II
$75,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support half the costs of four nonprofit Food Leaders Fellows from 2023-2025
$75,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Food Leaders Fellowship fund 2023-2025
$75,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2022
Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Challenge Sprints Fund
$65,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2022
Promotion of Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger - Part II Fund
$60,000
The UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy Endowment FUND
$60,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2023
Promotion of Digital Innovations for Zero Hunger - part II fund
$60,000
The UCLA Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy Endowment fund
$58,000
Potsdam-Institut Fur Klimafolgenforschung E V · 2025
Nitrogen dynamics in global biogeochemical cycles and food system transformation pathways
$50,000
Association for the Advancement of the Global Bioe · 2024
Support of the Global BioEconomy Summit 2024
$50,000
4 Access Partners · Edina, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2022
The Global Food System Challenge
$50,000
Leibniz Zentrum Fur Agrarlandschaftsforschung -Zal · 2022
Expenditure Responsibility Grant
$35,000
University of British Columbia · 2022
Faculty of Land and Food Systems - Deans Fund
$30,000
Gdp Research Alliance · Rosemont, IL · 2025
Accelerator Mentorship Program for Women-led SMEs in Africa - led by Robynne Anderson
$30,000
Food System 6 Accelerator · Redwood City, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$25,200
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
participation fund for of all winners from the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge at the IFT FIRST event in Chicago
$25,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
FIRST 2024 VIP Networking event
$25,000
Humane America Animal Foundation · Claremont, CA · 2023
Tailored Food PROJECT - support for the nutritious low-cost fooD in Liberia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Mozambique, AND nutritious food products FOR families suffering from malnutrition
$25,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2023
Impact Innovator Network Design Phase FUND
$25,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2023
FOR THE SEEDING THE FUTURE Global Food System Challenge operating funds
$25,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2022
Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge special seed fund for Nutri Posh initiative
$23,000
Bountifield International · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
Charitable Event
$21,500
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
Seeding The Future Global Food System Innovation Library Application
$21,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2022
Salary Support for the Prototyping Coordinator position for Welthungerhilfe's early-stage Innovations Project
$15,000
Inquiring Systems · Santa Rosa, CA · 2022
Funds to build the national food museum
$10,000
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2025
Charitable Event
$10,000
International Center for Food Ontology Operability · Davis, CA · 2025
Research Fund to Create a Personalized Sustainable Nutrition Knowledge Graph
$10,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
Seeding the future fund for fun run at ift first 2024
$10,000
International Center for Food Ontology Operability · Davis, CA · 2024
Seeding the future fund for fun run at ift first 2024
$10,000
International Center for Food Ontology Operability · Davis, CA · 2023
Research FUND to Create A Personalized Sustainable Nutrition Knowledge Graph Outcome: A dynamic knowledge graph capable of quantifying how hundreds of individual- and food systems-level factors affect sustainable dietar… read allResearch FUND to Create A Personalized Sustainable Nutrition Knowledge Graph Outcome: A dynamic knowledge graph capable of quantifying how hundreds of individual- and food systems-level factors affect sustainable dietary patterns with the ultimate goal to affect conscious consumer choices leading to a better food system less
$10,000
Refed · Long Is City, NY · 2022
Charitable Event
$5,000
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2022
Tufts Industrial Collaborative Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
$4,095
Universitat Hohenheim · 2023
solar-biomass hybrid flatbed dryer
$3,000
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2024
Data Integration fund
$1,600
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc - Doctors Without · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$1,500
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$1,500
Blythedale Children'S Hospital · Valhalla, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$1,500
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2022
Feeding Tomorrow program
$1,000
Philabundance · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$750
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe Ev · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$750
Can Do Canines · New Hope, MN · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Paul & · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Garden School Foundation · Pasadena, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA · Hagerstown, MD · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Public-Private Alliance Foundation · Hastings Hdsn, NY · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
Wolfes Neck Farm Foundation · Freeport, ME · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$750
World Central Kitchen Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$600
Bountifield International · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Can Do Canines · New Hope, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Paul & · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Fair Food Network · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Garden School Foundation · Pasadena, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission · Mission Hills, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2022
Feeding Tomorrow PRogram
$600
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
Samaritans Purse · Boone, NC · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$600
University of Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
The Institute on the Environment fund
$500
Philabundance · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$375
Elijahs Promise · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$375
Institute of Food Technologists · Chicago, IL · 2023
Feeding Tomorrow fund
$300
Elijahs Promise · New Brunswick, NJ · 2022
General & Unrestricted

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