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MISSION TO SEAFARERS

EIN 40-0000490 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$302,189
Expenses 2024
$301,958

Program services were 76.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
7000
Street
1011 SW KLICKITAT WAY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Seattle Seafarers Center's mission is to welcome and care for seafarers who visit Puget Sound through ship visits, transportation, access to healthcare, communication tools, and basic necessities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Seattle Seafarers Center's mission is to welcome and care for seafarers who visit Puget Sound through ship visits, transportation, advocacy, communication tools, and basic necessities.

  • Ship visiting and chaplaincy: Chaplains and trained ship visitors meet every cargo ship docked in the port of Seattle plus some in Everett and Tacoma: 637 visits during this fiscal year. Visitors bring wifi and SIM cards on board to welcome seafarers who can't leave the ship. Shopping and delivery services were provided for seafarers who are unable to leave their ship due to visa or shore leave restrictions. The Center looks out for welfare and mental health issues on board and escalates any observed welfare issues to the Coast Guard and the International Transport Workers' Federation. In 2024-2025 the Center's internship program gave young adults from the North American Maritime Ministry Association and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest mentorship and real work experience. The Center operates a hospitality space to offer a place for seafarers to relax, use wifi, and receive clothing and toiletries free of charge.

    Expenses $133,069 · Revenue $66,797

  • Ditty Bag Program: The Center provided 2,147 "Ditty Bags" to seafarers on cargo ships. Volunteers sew cloth bags and knit stocking caps. The bags are filled with toiletries, a stocking cap, playing cards, other treats, and a handwritten note. The Center's chaplains and ship visitors distribute the bags to every seafarer entering the port during the holiday season. In-kind donations of clothing allowed the Center to expand the ditty bag program to provide 3,225 sweatshirts and t-shirts in addition to ditty bags this year.

    Expenses $40,157

  • Cruise ship transportation services: The Mission Staff and Volunteers provided transportation services to 8,637 cruise ship employees during the 2024 Seattle cruise season (May-October), with service provided to cruise ships in the Port of Seattle. The transportation service is a van service between the cruise ship terminal and downtown Seattle provided by a local resident who can direct seafarers to shopping and tourism destinations in the city.

    Expenses $57,045 · Revenue $40,903

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Julia Cooper

    Operations Director

    Total calculated
    $75,721
    From this org
    $75,721
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David M Stockert

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Daniel C Irwin

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Erica Cohen Moore

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Greg Fritzberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jack Ipsen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph A Cotton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Michele Barutha

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rich Shivley

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $302,189
    Expenses
    $301,958
    Contributions
    $299,842
    Grants paid
    $2,615
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $335,325
    Expenses
    $311,554
    Contributions
    $334,174
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $231,930
    Expenses
    $227,015
    Contributions
    $204,999
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $255,283
    Expenses
    $200,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,228

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $157,075
    Expenses
    $168,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,265

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $199,045
    Expenses
    $208,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,215

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,422
    Expenses
    $211,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,331

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $201,623
    Expenses
    $175,918
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,452

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $112,083
    Expenses
    $123,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,556

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,289
    Expenses
    $81,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,678

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $83,038
    Expenses
    $57,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,999

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.