Washington · Nonprofit
Bellingham SeaFeast
Bellingham SeaFeast (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Bellingham SeaFeast does
Mission
Showcase and celebrate the maritime, waterfront and fishing industries
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Print, broadcast and social media spread information about the industries and the festival to more than 100,000 people, with more than 10,000 people from the city, county, state and lower British Columbia attending the two-day festival. More than 100 booths offered information and seafood, as well as education about the sea-centered industries. Games and entertainment led to extended exploration of the waterfront and the opportunity for the public to meet people from the organizations that sustain its vitality
$65,523 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,523.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $60k to $38k (−38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 19% · 2019 19% · 2020 50% · 2021 33% · 2022 16% · 2023 26% · 2024 30% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of Bellingham SeaFeast’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dan Tucker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Bellingham SeaFeast’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bellingham SeaFeast leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bellingham SeaFeast.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
50% of Bellingham SeaFeast's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bellingham SeaFeast receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Bellingham SeaFeast receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $294k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$294k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Bellingham SeaFeast
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
29% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bellingham SeaFeast: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Bellingham SeaFeast?
- Bellingham SeaFeast (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bellingham SeaFeast have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to Bellingham SeaFeast, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bellingham SeaFeast?
- WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bellingham SeaFeast find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Bellingham SeaFeast →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing