New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Families First of the Greater Seacoast
Families First of the Greater Seacoast (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,015 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($298,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $944k
- Net assets
- $0
What Families First of the Greater Seacoast does
Mission
To contribute to the health and wellbeing of the Seacoast Community by providing a broad range of health and family services to all regardless of ability to pay. The fiscal year 2017 total charity care is $4,891,510, which includes unreimbursed expenses and leveraged revenue from community benefits activities.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Primary CareFamilies First provides comprehensive, high-quality primary care for children and adults, as well as prenatal care. Services include preventive and sick care, a well-child program, chronic-disease management, immunizations, laboratory testing, care coordination, developmental screenings, benefits and insurance enrollment, and free child care during appointments. Most patients face significant financial and psychosocial challenges. In FY2017, Families First: -provided primary care to more than 5,300 patients, in more than 22,500 visits. Of these patients, 67% lived below the federal poverty level (another 26% live between 101% and 200%); 22% were homeless; and 22% were uninsured. Dental CareFamilies First provides access to comprehensive dental health services, including oral health screening, preventive and restorative care. In FY2017, Families First:-served more than 2,100 patients at Families First Dental Center and in mobile dental clinics that primarily serve homeless patients-provided in-school dental services at preschools and public schools, including education (1,940 children), dental screenings (1,516 children), and prophylaxis (106 children)Homeless Health…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $636k → $9k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Families First of the Greater Seacoast’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
Families First of the Greater Seacoast has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 Families First of the Greater Seacoast.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 22% · 2019 36% · 2020 50% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
7% of Families First of the Greater Seacoast's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of Families First of the Greater Seacoast'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 $407k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $537k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.
Government funding Families First of the Greater Seacoast receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
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 Families First of the Greater Seacoast
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Families First of the Greater Seacoast: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Families First of the Greater Seacoast?
- Families First of the Greater Seacoast (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,015 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($298,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Families First of the Greater Seacoast have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $944,015 in grants to Families First of the Greater Seacoast, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families First of the Greater Seacoast?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $298,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families First of the Greater Seacoast find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing