Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,376,600 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($433,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $302k
What Seattle Children's Hospital (Dba Friends of Costco Guild) does
Mission
The friends of costco guild was founded in 1988 to support seattle children's hospital (a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt hospital) by raising awareness and funds for the uncompensated care program, helping children receive the best care regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The friends of costco guild is a member of the seattle children's guild association, a tax-exempt fundraising entity of seattle children's hospital. The hospital provides pediatric patient care, medical research, teaching of pediatric residents and other healthcare providers, as well as advocacy for children in the pacific northwest. The friends of costco guild is seattle chidlren's hospital's largest single fundraiser. In 2025, the friends of costco guild held its 26th annual children's golf classic, which raised funds primarily benefiting the uncompensated care program of the hospital. These funds fulfill the guild's mission by providing financial assistance to patients based upon family need and hospital resources.
$14,175,144 spentof which $14,175,144 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,175,144.
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.
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 $175k to $302k (+73%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jan Sinegal
Golf tournament chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $110k → $142k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $118k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)’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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 91% · 2021 98% · 2022 39% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)'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 $306k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)
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
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- Seattle Children's Healthcare System · exempt
- Seattle Children's Hospital · exempt
- Seattle Children's Foundation · exempt
- Seattle Children's Guild Association · exempt
- Children's Retail · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)?
- SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,376,600 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($433,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,376,600 in grants to SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD), 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD)?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $433,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) 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.
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 12 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