Washington · Nonprofit
MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND
MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,273,826 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($758,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $211k
What Montlake Futures Fund does
Mission
Montlake futures develops name, image, and likeness opportunities that benefit the missions of 501(c)(3) organizations and provide educational experiences for university of washington student-athletes. Our goal is to leverage the roles and identities of student-athletes to help fundraise, generate awareness, and otherwise support charitable causes, while fostering connections that inspire a lifetime of civic engagement for student-athletes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The house v. Ncaa settlement, which allows schools to directly compensate student athletes for their name, image, and likeness (nil), officially took effect on july 1, 2025. While approved on june 6, 2025, the implementation of revenue sharing and new roster rules begins for the 2025-26 academic year on this date. In accordance with the house v. Ncaa settlement, montlake future funds ceased engaging with student athletes on the last day of its fiscal year, june 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Our primary program is purchasing the name, image, and likeness rights of student-athletes and allocating those rights to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations for the purpose of benefitting their missions. Program expenses enabled work to fundraise, generate awareness, and otherwise support organizations such as seattle children's hospital and boys and girls club of king county.
$43,875,324 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,875,324.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $253k (−92%).
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.
100% of MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Minear
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
9 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Montlake Futures Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND: 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 MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND?
- MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,273,826 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($758,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,273,826 in grants to MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $758,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTLAKE FUTURES FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 11 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