New Hampshire · Nonprofit
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,418 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($362,563). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $111k
What Seacoast Eat Local Inc does
Mission
We cultivate a resilient, equitable, and community-centered local food system. Through markets, education, and collaboration, we connect producers and consumers to each other as well as the knowledge and resources they need to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Snap - operation of a supplemental nutrition assistance program to offer incentives to low-income individuals and families. The program enables snap recipients to double their snap dollars to purchase local fruits and vegetables at farmers' markets, farm stands, and community supported agriculture (csa) shares.
$39,567 spent$7,600 earned by the program17% of program spendingMobile market education programs - in fy25, seacoast eat local expanded its education programs to include the harvesting knowledge workshop series, offering interactive, seasonal classes that connected consumers with local food skills, stories, and producers. At our farmers' markets, we also launched new hands-on educational activities for children, engaging hundreds of young shoppers in learning about fruits, vegetables, farming, and nutrition through games and crafts. These programs fostered deeper community engagement and built awareness of local food systems among all ages.
$41,626 spent$25 earned by the program18% of program spendingSummer farmers' market - operation of four weekly summer farmers' markets taking place from may through october. This includes portsmouth (saturdays), exeter (thursdays), dover (wednesdays), and durham (mondays). The markets are made up of a variety of different vendors who sell fruit, vegetables, meat, seafood, eggs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods, value-added foods, hot prepared food, crafts, and body care products. All of our vendors make, grow, harvest, catch, or craft 100% of the products they sell at the market. We also have musicians, nonprofits, and other guests to help make the markets fun, community-oriented, and engaging.
$75,382 spent$41,876 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$77,148 spent$101,679 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $233,723.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $263k to $204k (−22%).
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: 2020 57% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Shawn Menard
Executive director
Board chair
Dawn Barker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $125k → $88k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC’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
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 71% · 2019 74% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 56% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 FY2023, 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
52% of SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC'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 $489k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $539k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC's revenue grew 34% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $286k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$286k
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 SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC: 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 SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC?
- SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,418 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($362,563). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,027,418 in grants to SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $362,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEACOAST EAT LOCAL INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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