Somersworth Festival Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020368054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Somersworth, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6036925869
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,618
- Expenses
- $96,050
- Assets
- $158,704
- Liabilities
- $282
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donald Houde (President)
- Dina Gagnon (Vice President)
- Patricia Soucy (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Donald Houde (President)
- Dina Gagnon (Vice President)
- Donald Austin (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Somersworth Festival Association is to foster civic pride in the City of Somersworth and in the diversity of its ethnic background and to foster the arts especially as they relate to children and families. This is accomplished through the activities detailed in the program service accomplishments.
What it reported doing in 2025
Somersworth Pumpkin Festival is a day of fall family fun in the middle of downtown! Activities at a low cost include: scarecrow construction, launching pumpkins from a trebuchet, hay rides, pumpkin painting, pumpkin carving and more. Live music, magic shows and other entertainment were provided and food was available from vendors. A number of local organizations including Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Somersworth High School clubs participated in the event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 77% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 44.7%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 44.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.