Washington · Nonprofit
Seattle Go Center
Seattle Go Center (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,869 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($81,393). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $124k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Seattle Go Center does
Mission
To promote educational exchange between people of different cultural backgrounds, including, but not limited to, promotion of instruction, training, and competition in the game of "Go".
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Seattle Go Center continued to ramp up our programs from last year after covid, started hosting more tournaments, conducting more outreach events, and starting more meetups in nearby communities that find it more difficult to come to sgc regularly. Our general attendance is up over the past year. Our most attended days are tuesday (25-35 attendees) and saturday (10-20 attendees). We motivated and help create several meet-ups to promote go and spread our community to places where folks find it harder to attend sgc regularly, providing equipment, teaching, and hosts. There are now six different meetups, up from two, and we are working on more in farther places from seattle. We continued our monthly ratings tournaments for members to record national rankings. In july 2023, we hosted a go professional and workshop for 35 members. In july 2023, we had a party for members and to thank volunteers. In july 2023, we did outreach at the bellevue, wa japan fair and taught go to 200+ new people. In july 2023, we did outreach at the bon odori festival and taught go to 50 new people. In august 2023, we participated in the from hiroshima to hope remembrance ceremonies, discussing our…
$151,065 spent$8,132 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $151,065.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $173k to $267k (+55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Seattle Go Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Seattle Go Center’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 Go Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Seattle Go Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
74% of Seattle Go Center'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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.
Against its field
Seattle Go Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Seattle Go Center
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.
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Seattle Go Center: 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 Seattle Go Center?
- Seattle Go Center (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,869 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($81,393). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Seattle Go Center have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $123,869 in grants to Seattle Go Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seattle Go Center?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seattle Go Center 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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