Seed Impact

Name

Seed Impact

Legal name

SEED Impact: A Project of Tides Center

Website

https://seedimpact.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Capacity Building Services

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Impact Investing & Social Finance (Funds, CDFIs, Microfinance) (BPAGALAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

Keywords

• Nonprofit capacity building
• Social impact consulting
• Social emotional learning
• Theory of change facilitation
• Organizational assessment tools

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: Seed Impact operates as a fiscally-sponsored project of Tides Center and receives funding through donations and grants from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Major funders include W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The New York Women's Foundation, United Way of NYC, and many individual donors.
2. Fee-for-Service Consulting: Seed Impact provides capacity building services to nonprofit organizations including training, coaching, and assessment tools. The Mission Brilliance Assessment has both free and paid team versions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SEED Impact provides capacity-building services and proprietary tools to under-resourced nonprofit organizations, including SEL outcome measurement (SEED Competency Ladders™), organizational health assessments (Mission Brilliance Assessment), Theory of Change facilitation (Theory of Change on Its Feet™), and cohort-based collective impact programs (SEEDing Stronger Together). Its offerings combine facilitated training and coaching with the SEEDing Social Impact Software for tracking and reporting results to funders.

Product overview

SEED Impact offers a suite of interconnected nonprofit capacity-building products centered on social-emotional learning (SEL) measurement and organizational impact assessment. The core offerings include SEED Competency Ladders™ for individual growth mapping, the Mission Brilliance Assessment for organizational evaluation across eight key health areas, Theory of Change on Its Feet™ for outcome planning and measurement, and SEEDing Stronger Together for cohort-based collaborative impact building. These products are unified by the SEEDing Social Impact Software, which serves as the underlying tracking and reporting platform. The company delivers services to nonprofits, communities, and individuals, leveraging a 'tech and touch' approach combining technology tools with human facilitation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SEEDing Stronger Together: A cohort-based facilitation program that unites organizations to design shared measures and build collective impact.
• Mission Brilliance
• Theory of Change on Its Feet
• SEEDing Social Impact software

Products and services

• SEED Competency Ladders™ A growth-mapping tool that helps leaders and participants visualize, measure, and report their development over time across social-emotional learning domains (Being, Doing, Relating). It is customized for specific SEL use cases and is used by youth-serving organizations and nonprofits participating in SEED programs.
• Mission Brilliance Assessment An evaluation tool that assesses nonprofit organizations across eight key areas of organizational health, including Mission Clarity, Measuring Change, and Cultivating Advocates. Available in a free 10-minute individual version that produces a scored personal perception report, and a paid team version that delivers aggregated combined reports, corporate results analysis with recommendations, a coaching roadmap, and an hour of coaching with the Co-Executive Directors.
• Theory of Change on Its Feet™ A hands-on framework delivered through facilitated workshops that helps nonprofit organizations define outcomes, plan for results, and measure and report meaningful progress. It is designed for nonprofit leaders who need accessible tools to develop and communicate their Theory of Change to internal stakeholders and funders.
• SEEDing Stronger Together Cohort-based facilitation program that unites multiple nonprofit organizations to design shared measures and build collective impact. Includes supporting software for tracking and reporting results across cohort participants, and is often sponsored by foundation funders for selected cohorts of nonprofits.
• SEEDing Social Impact Software Tracking and reporting software used by nonprofit clients to capture program data and produce impact reports. It simplifies data collection and is cited by clients such as You Gotta Believe for making it easy to track and report results.
• Nonprofit Leadership Training and Coaching Direct capacity-building service in which SEED Impact trains nonprofit leadership teams in visioning, collaborating, and evaluating their work. Includes training, coaching, strategic planning facilitation, and team coordination support, often sponsored by foundation grants for under-resourced organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• SEED has served 300 nonprofits, impacting more than 100,000 individuals
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tides CentercoreOthersTides Center is SEED Impact's fiscal sponsor, holding the 501(c)(3) nonprofit status on behalf of SEED Impact. Tides Center is the nation's largest fiscal sponsor and handles financial administration for over 130 sponsored projects. Donors use EIN 94-3213100 and designate gifts to 'SEED Impact: Project 1057'.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CompassPoint Nonprofit Services: CompassPoint provides management consulting, coaching, and leadership development to nonprofit executives, with a focus on under-resourced and BIPOC-led organizations — the same target segment SEED Impact serves. Both combine training, tools, and consulting for small-to-mid-sized nonprofits.
• BoardSource: BoardSource is a national nonprofit focused on nonprofit governance, leadership, and board effectiveness. Its leadership and capacity-building offerings for nonprofits closely parallel SEED Impact's leadership training and organizational assessment practice.
• TCC Group: TCC Group is a consulting firm focused on nonprofit and philanthropic effectiveness, offering strategy, evaluation, and capacity-building services. It overlaps with SEED Impact on Theory of Change facilitation, impact measurement, and leadership development for nonprofits.
• TechSoup: TechSoup provides nonprofits with technology products, capacity-building resources, and digital tools. It competes with SEED Impact's SEEDing Social Impact software and broader tech-enabled nonprofit capacity-building offering.
• La Piana Consulting: La Piana Consulting supports nonprofit leaders through strategic planning, executive transitions, and capacity building. It competes directly with SEED Impact for the same nonprofit leadership training and organizational development engagements.
• NTEN: NTEN is the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, providing training, resources, and community to help nonprofits use technology effectively. It overlaps with SEED Impact on digital capacity-building and impact-measurement tooling for nonprofits.

Broad incumbents

• FSG: FSG is a global social impact consulting firm advising foundations, corporations, and nonprofits on strategy, evaluation, and collective impact. It is a larger incumbent operating broadly in the same social-impact advisory space as SEED Impact.
• The Bridgespan Group: Bridgespan is a major nonprofit and philanthropy strategy consultancy. While much larger and more strategy-focused than SEED Impact, it operates in the same nonprofit capacity-building and impact-strategy category and competes for foundation-sourced advisory work.

Emerging players

• Nonprofit Finance Fund: Nonprofit Finance Fund is a CDFI and advisor providing capital, consulting, and research to strengthen nonprofits' financial resilience. It shares SEED Impact's capacity-building focus on under-resourced nonprofits but emphasizes financial management over impact measurement.
• Candid: Candid (formed from Foundation Center and GuideStar) supplies nonprofit data, research, and learning resources, including impact-reporting tools and capacity-building content. It overlaps with SEED Impact's data, evaluation, and reporting offerings but is broader in scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/seedimpact

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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