Arts, Culture & Humanities
Seacoast Science Center Inc
RYE, NH
Total revenue
$2.4M
Total expenses
$2.4M
Net assets
$2.7M
Grants received
$789K
77 grants
EIN
020526488
Tax year
2024
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
Programs
3 programs
Exhibits: 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.
Marine 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.
Other program services: printing expenses related to sustaining ssc's ongoing membership program.
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
20 listed
MARK WILEY
VICE CHAIR
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2 hrs/wk
LINDA SANBORN
TREASURER
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1 hrs/wk
ALLISON MCLEAN
SECRETARY
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1 hrs/wk
KATHARINE BROWN
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
KATHRYN GILL DREW
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
BRIAN FITZGERALD
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
JAMES GLYNN
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
LAURIE LEICHTHAMMER
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
DAVID WHITE
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
WHITNEY GAGNON
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
MATT SILER
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
REID SMITH
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
TIM ACQUAVIVA
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
TERRI GRIJALVA
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
CHARLES POTTER
DIRECTOR
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1 hrs/wk
DIANE FOSTER
NON-VOTING D
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1 hrs/wk
BRIAN WILSON
NON-VOTING D
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1 hrs/wk
RICHARD DUMORE
CHAIR
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4 hrs/wk
KATHERINE R LEAVITT
CURRENT PRES
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0JAMES E CHASE
FORMER PRESI
$115K
37.5 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
ARQ
ARCHITECT
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