Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation

Analysis

Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Renton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation reported income of $520k and spending of $451k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2023, income grew from $363k to $520k (+43%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy ($520k), Barney & Barney Foundation ($520k) and Unlimited Future Incorporated ($519k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. At year end it held assets of $451k against liabilities of $146k, net assets of $305k.