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FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT

EIN 80-0867356 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$21,016,878
Expenses 2024
$28,741,877

Program services were 91.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
1201 ALASKAN WAY STE 200

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

TO BRING PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES, AND RESOURCES TOGETHER TO ENSURE WATERFRONT PARK THRIVES AS A VIBRANT GATHERING SPACE - UPLIFTING LOCALS, FOSTERING CONNECTIONS AND HONORING SEATTLE'S NATURAL BEAUTY AND STORIES.

  • GRANT TO CITY OF SEATTLE FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CENTRAL WATERFRONT PROJECT.

    Expenses $20,000,000 · Grants $20,000,000

  • FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT PARK IS THE NONPROFIT PARTNER TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE TO HELP BUILD, OPERATE, PROGRAM, AND STEWARD THE FUTURE WATERFRONT PARK, SLATED TO OPEN IN 2025. IN 2024, FRIENDS HOSTED OVER 60 ACTIVATIONS AT WATERFRONT PARK, INCLUDING PERFORMANCES, FESTIVALS, AND A VENDING PROGRAM PILOT, DRAWING 30,000+ ATTENDEES. MOST EVENTS WERE FREE, WITH ONE TICKETED EVENT. PROGRAMS FEATURED 23 EVENTS, 4 INDIGENOUS ART INSTALLATIONS, AND 9 MINORITY-OWNED VENDORS. OF THESE, 17 HAD POC REPRESENTATION AND 7 INCLUDED INDIGENOUS PARTNERS, INVOLVING OVER 100 COLLABORATORS, INCLUDING 39 EVENT PARTNERS, 71 RETAIL AND FOOD CONCESSIONAIRES, AND 73 ARTISTS AND ENTERTAINERS.

    Expenses $6,364,420 · Grants $65,000 · Revenue $22,173

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.

  • MAGGIE WALKER

    CHAIR AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLIE WRIGHT

    VICE CHAIR AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN NESHOLM

    TREASURER AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OLIVE GOH

    SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK GORDON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM BYERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN GEIGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEONARD FORSMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTHA KONGSGAARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KARLA BROLLIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FALONA JOY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEANNIE NORDSTROM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS DEVORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARLA LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORI METCALF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STUART ROLFE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAYLEY RUNSTAD SWAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN KULLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL BINDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE STEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEWAN TESHOME

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOUIE UNGARO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRADY WALKINSHAW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE HALPERIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $21,016,878
    Expenses
    $28,741,877
    Contributions
    $18,113,095
    Grants paid
    $20,065,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $40,720,932
    Expenses
    $33,808,963
    Contributions
    $39,605,294
    Grants paid
    $25,084,900
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $21,501,273
    Expenses
    $27,418,369
    Contributions
    $21,128,663
    Grants paid
    $20,100,000

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
    $18,451,565
    Expenses
    $15,422,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,295,569

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,937,023
    Expenses
    $11,357,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,297,257

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,122,860
    Expenses
    $2,423,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,430,142

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.