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THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC

THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being BIG ROCK FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$155k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$62k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The North Carolina Seafood Festival Inc does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt function is to promote the positive social and economic impact of the seafood industry on the citizens of north carolina and to educate the public about seafood and its importance to the state's economy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Promoting the positive social and economic impact of the seafood industry on the citizens of north carolina and educated the public about seafood and its importance to the economy in north carolina.

    $91,882 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Promoting the positive social and economic impact of the seafood industry on the citizens of north carolina and educated the public about seafood and its importance to the economy in north carolina.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,882.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($196k) Expenses 100 ($198k) Net assets 100 ($332k)2018 Revenue 113 ($222k) Expenses 126 ($250k) Net assets 92 ($304k)2019 Revenue 151 ($296k) Expenses 173 ($343k) Net assets 78 ($257k)2020 Revenue 57 ($111k) Expenses 92 ($182k) Net assets 56 ($187k)2021 Revenue 145 ($284k) Expenses 86 ($170k) Net assets 91 ($301k)2022 Revenue 157 ($307k) Expenses 132 ($262k) Net assets 104 ($346k)2023 Revenue 139 ($272k) Expenses 147 ($292k) Net assets 98 ($326k)2024 Revenue 93 ($182k) Expenses 151 ($299k) Net assets 63 ($209k)2025 Revenue 79 ($155k) Expenses 146 ($290k) Net assets 19 ($62k)
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Revenue (79)Expenses (146)Net assets (19)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $212k to $63k (−70%).

$335k
$304k
$260k
$187k
$302k
$351k
$330k
$212k
$63k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$28k
’18
−$47k
’19
−$71k
’20
$114k
’21
$45k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$117k
’24
−$135k
’25
2.5
months of
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

Kenny Bradberry

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242422191923222222
Joined·+6+7+8+4+5+0+4+3
No longer listed·691141143
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

32% of spending goes to programs.

Program 32%Management 42%Fundraising 26%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL 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 THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC?
THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being BIG ROCK FOUNDATION INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC?
BIG ROCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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