Open Foundations · New Hampshire

Foundation for Seacoast Health

Portsmouth, New Hampshire · EIN 020386319. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $908K across 43 grants in 2025, a median of $20K each.

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$908K
paid in 2025
43
grants paid
$20K
median grant
42%
to first-time recipients
$27.9M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
Jenny MacMurdo
Address
PO Box 670, Portsmouth, NH, 03802
Phone
6035028076
Form the request should take
Apply online at the Foundation for Seacoast Health's website: https://www.foundationforseacoasthealth.org/
Submission deadline
Submission deadlines are announced and posted in "Grant Guidelines" available on the website.
Restrictions on awards
Restricted for purposes related to the promotion of health and wellbeing of residents of the nine communities indentified in Part IX-A.

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2025, IRS filing object id 202601749349100705. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2025 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

fall responsivestrategic multi-year

Biggest grants in 2025

The 15 largest of the 43 grants paid in 2025, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1Arts in ReachNH$50,0002024 Strategic Grant (multi-year)
2Cornerstone VnaNH$50,0002025 Strategic Grant
3Seacoast Mental Health CenterNH$50,0002025 Strategic Grant
4Seacoast Youth ServicesNH$50,0002024 Strategic Grant (multi-year)
5Rockingham Nutrition & Meals on WheelsNH$35,0002025 Strategic Grant
6York County Community Action CorporationME$30,0002025 Strategic Grant
7Aids Response of the SeacoastNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
8Connor's Climb FoundationNH$25,0002024 Strategic Grant (multi-year)
9Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast TransportationNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
10Friends Forever IncNH$25,0002024 Strategic Grant (multi-year)
11Friends Program IncNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
12I Got BridgedNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
13Maine Council on AgingME$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
14New Futures IncNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant
15Portsmouth Senior Activity CenterNH$25,0002025 Strategic Grant

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
202015$145K
202124$324K
202244$10.1M
202331$434K
202437$700K
2025 (partial year)43$908K

Where the money went

Share of 2025 grant dollars by recipient state
New Hampshire88%
Maine9%
District of Columbia2%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Andrea DalyChair · 2025
Debra S GrabowskiPast CEO · 2025
Doug MacdonaldTrustee · 2025
Elisabeth RobinsonTrustee · 2025
Jason KrollTrustee · 2025
Jeff CroteauTrustee · 2025
Jenifer CannonTrustee · 2025
Jennifer CuttsTrustee · 2025
Kathleen MacleodVice Chair · 2025
L Blair DemersCEO · 2025
Michael McgovernTrustee · 2025
Paul LeydenPast Trustee · 2025
Peter GeorgeTreasurer · 2025
Robert HickeySecretary · 2025
Stuart LevensonPast Trustee · 2025
Tania MarinoTrustee · 2025

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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