New Hampshire · Nonprofit
SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC
SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,387,401 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($716,217). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Seacoast Science Center Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. The center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize the value of the natural environment so that they may be moved to action, develop conservation ethics and take personal action to ensure a healthy ocean. The center is located in historic odiorne point state park and operates under an ongoing contract with nh division of parks and recreation. The center offers educational programs, environmental day camps and interpretive exhibits and aquariums for visitors and school groups. Visitors represent a diverse audience from toddlers to grandparents. As a cultural mainstay in the seacoast, the center features educational content highlighting the natural history of odiorne point state park and the ecology of its 7 distinct habitats as well as the ecology of the gulf of maine including open-ocean, nearshore and
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Programs: the seacoast science center offers educational programs, environmental day camps and daily public programs for visitors and school groups. Program participants learn about the ocean and its critical influence on our daily lives through the perspective of odiorne point state park and seacoast new hampshire. It is the objective of the seacoast science center's experiential environmental education programing to increase our visitor's understanding and awareness of the ocean. In turn, we hope to motivate them to take personal actions in their daily lives that will contribute to a healthy ocean.
$1,242,517 spent$1,008,998 earned by the program77% of program spendingExhibits: the seacoast science center features over 35 individual exhibits. The "discovery dock" early learning activity center is an interactive exhibit designed to be a space where young children can explore the working waterfront. "h2o today" is an exhibition that examines the diversity and challenges of our global water sources and promotes conversation, creativity and innovation through art, science and technology. "marine mammals of the gulf of maine" is comprised of a collection of interpretive videos, interactive exhibits and articulated skeletons including "tofu" a 32-foot juvenile humpback whale. The "gulf of maine exhibit hall" features 10 aquarium exhibits containing a variety of fish and marine invertebrates found in the gulf of maine. The center also offers an intertidal touch tank where visitors may handle crabs, sea stars and marine invertebrates commonly found in the tide pools along the nh coast.
$226,857 spent14% of program spendingMarine mammal rescue: seacoast science center is the federally authorized entity responsible for responding to dead and stranded marine mammals along the coast of new hampshire and northern massachusetts. Each year ssc marine mammal rescue staff and volunteers respond to between 150 and 300 cases. Responses are executed to preserve public safety, ensure animal safety and foster the collection of scientific information on the health and status of these protected animals. Marine mammal natural history and marine mammal rescue operations are the subject for school and public program content at the seacoast science center.
$150,667 spent9% of program spendingOther program services: printing expenses related to sustaining ssc's ongoing membership program.
$3,000 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,623,041.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.3M to $5.5M (+66%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 19% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 4% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Richard Dumore
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $124k → $217k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SCIENCE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 SCIENCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 SCIENCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 73% · 2019 59% · 2020 58% · 2021 78% · 2022 26% · 2023 69% — 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
55% of SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
68% of SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER 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 $444k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $943k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SCIENCE CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of Commerce$5.4M
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 SCIENCE CENTER 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,387,401 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($716,217). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,387,401 in grants to SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $716,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEACOAST SCIENCE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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