Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,212 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($1,899,763). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $829k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $228k
What Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is organized to operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. The foundation provides youth and young adults access to outstanding academic, athletic and health programs that improve their quality of life and improve their prospects for the future. To achieve this mission, the foundation supports the following: work of like-minded organizations by participating in charity fundraisers, arranging players' appearances, and providing financial support; health programs that increase awareness of the health concerns that affect youth; promotion of fitness and health awareness through construction of playgrounds and fitness centers that serve youth; and organizations that are seeking cures for childhood diseases.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation supports a variety of charitable organizations and causes through its charitable giving and programs. This year the foundation funded the first ever seahawks community awards recognizing individuals in the community for their efforts, launched the inaugural seahawks community scholarship and made donations to urban league. Support for youth football programs both at the youth and high school level included grants for girl's high school flag football teams to purchase uniforms and equipment, funding for youth tackle programs, flag football camps, and a recognition program for boy's high school tackle and girls flag football coaches. Military communities were supported through task force 12, a group of veteran non-profits. A variety of additional causes were supported through thefoundation including mental health, cancer screenings, volunteerism, voting, domestic violence awareness and cpr/aed trainings. The foundation supports 12 different non-profits serving the greater seattle community through the spirit of 12 program and the seahawks 50/50 raffle on gamedays.
$231,900 spentof which $112,253 as grants29% of program spendingSince its inception, the foundation has taken an active role to expand and enhance the seahawks' ability to raise and distribute funds for charitable purposes in the pacific northwest. The foundation makes grants and contributions to public charities that serve the needs of children in the community. The foundation makes these grants and contributions to pacific northwest charities qualified for tax exemption under irc section 501(c)(3) and qualified as public charities under irc sections 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2). The foundation supports charities whose purpose and programs are consistent with the primary exempt purpose of the foundation. The foundation generates funds by holding special events that capitalize on the foundation's association with the seahawks, seattle's national football league professional football team. Since 2004, the foundation has held "the spirit of 12" program, implementing in the 2022 season the 50/50 raffle, whereby the foundation collaborates with local nonprofit organizations that serve our community to raise money at seahawks home games to benefit local charities.
$570,598 spentof which $570,598 as grants71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,498.
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 $254k to $451k (+77%).
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.
33% of SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $89k → $0.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
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
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Football Northwest Management Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: 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 SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,212 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($1,899,763). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,917,212 in grants to SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- NFL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,899,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 3 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