Seattle Go Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911653572
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2065451424
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,275
- Expenses
- $50,405
- Assets
- $192,951
- Liabilities
- $1,743
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Chiles (President)
- Leslie Crawford (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- William Chiles (President)
- Leslie Crawford (Vice President)
- Heath Henning (Secretary from March 2025)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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".
What it reported doing in 2024
The Seattle Go Center continued to ramp up our programs -- fun tournaments, outreach events, and starting more meetups in nearby communities that find it more difficult to come to SGC regularly (providing equipment, teaching, and coordination). Our general attendance has steadily improved since COVID, and we may be leveling off at pre-COVID crowds. Our most attended days are Tuesday (25-30 attendees) and Saturday (10-20 attendees). We continued our monthly ratings tournaments for members to record national rankings. JUN 2024: 2-day class at the International Community School (12-18 kids)... JUN 2024: taught Go at a school for a multicultural night (teaching 15 kids)... JUL 2024: outreach event at the Bellevue WA Japan Fair, teaching Go to 250+ people... JUL 2024: hosted Go pro visit, Chihiro Sensei, for teaching, simuls, and game reviews for our membership... JUL 2024: outreach event at the Bon Odori Festival, teaching Go to 185 people... AUG 2024: we participated in the From Hiroshima to Hope remembrance, playing and explaining the Atomic Bomb Game... SEP 2024: outreach event at Seattle Chinatown International District, teaching Go to 114 people... JUL 2024: hosted Go pro 2-day workshop with famous Michael Redmond, very popular player, reviewer, and teacher... OCT 2024: outreach event at Bellevue College Japan Week, teaching go to 110 people... OCT 2024: SGC Anniversary Tournament with 36 participants and several others just spectating... NOV 2024: pair Go tournament with 23 participants... DEC 2024: hosted the annual state championship for the AGA, 20 participants and several others spectating... JAN 2025: outreach event at a board game convention, OrcaCon, teaching 60+ people the game of Go... JAN 2025: lighting (blitz) tournament with 24 participants... JAN 2025: outreach event at the Chinook Middle School in Bellevue, teaching 50+ people the game of Go... JAN-JUN 2025: teach a Go Program at the Mt Si Senior Center in North Bend, WA every Friday afternoon... FEB 2025: Go class at Chinook Middle School for four weeks, 22 kids initially with some attrition... FEB 2025: outreach event at Edmunds Lunar New Year, teaching Go to 70 people... FEB 2025: hosted Go pro 2-day workshop with Lee Dong Sensei 9d from Korea... MAR 2025: hosted Go pro workshop with Maeda Ryo Sensei... MAR 2025: teaching a weekly class at the Loyal Heights Community Center for two months... APR 2025: Spring Tournament... APR 2025: outreach event at Cherry Blossom Festival, teaching Go to 210+ attendees... APR 2025: outreach event at SakuraCon over three days, teaching 370+ attendees and hosting a tournament... APR 2025: outreach event teaching Go at Shoreline Library, 28 attendees, a very popular library event... MAY 2025: outreach event at the U District Street Fair, teaching Go to 200+ attendees over two days... MAY 2025: hosted workshop for Seattle School District's Focus Week Program, teaching Go to 16 kids... MAY 2025: lighting (blitz) tournament with 12 participants... JUN 2025: hosted Go insei two-day workshop with Seokbin Cho (Korean 9d amateur)... JUN 2025: pair Go tournament.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.83; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.