Mission

To provide educational and motivational support, promote health and welfare programs for the Naval Special Warfare Community, and perpetuate the history and heritage of the U.S. Naval Commandos.

Taxpayer ID#: 31-1728910

The Naval Special Warfare Foundation was incorporated in 2000 as a National Non-Profit Charitable Corporation. It was established to honor all, who have served in the sea commando services and perpetuates their heritage, values, and traditions.

What the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Foundation provides under the three pillars of the mission.

Education and Motivation

  • Multiple scholarship programs which have awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars
  • Provide computers to the children of NSW warriors killed in combat or training
  • Yearly donations to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation for college education of children whose Special Operations Forces fathers were killed in combat or training
  • Provide all active and reserve SPECWAR commands the CARE Book and the Scholarship Resource Network (SRN) software
  • SEAL and Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen (SWCC) Navy Sea Cadet Corp (NSCC) orientation courses
  • Provide tuition assistance to active duty Naval Special Warfare personnel to defray the cost of books and supplies

Health and Welfare

  • Supporting families of SEALs killed in the War on Terror covering lodging expenses, airfare, memorial receptions, etc.
  • Financial planning offered to widows of SEALs and SWCC whose husbands were killed in combat or training
  • Assist active duty commands with expenses connected with the death of a NSW operator that is not combat/training related
  • Sponsor active duty family events: Children’s Christmas parties; NSW Campout (formerly SEAL Pups); Easter egg roll; NSW Kid’s Sports Day, etc.
  • Over $200,000 in Life Fitness Treadmills given to wives of SEALs
  • Supporting SBT-22 and NAVSCIATT Hurricane Katrina victims
  • SEAL Wives Against Terrorism (S.W.A.T.) tour, 2003 and 2005
  • Matt Bourgeois Leadership Award for NSCC
  • Sponsorship of NSCC Trident Team
  • Holiday help for needy family
  • Support NSW families who lost homes in the San Diego fires

History and Heritage

  • Mural at SEAL Team 10 honoring those SEALs lost in Afghanistan June 2005
  • Co-publish a quarterly magazine, “The BLAST , Journal of Naval Special Warfare”
  • NSW Plaque at the Navy Memorial in Washington, DC
  • Monuments honoring Naval Commandos at Veterans Memorial Parks
  • Original Art Program – “Rock Portage” and “Hunting Al Qaeda”
  • Memorial Garden in SEAL Park
  • Bricks laid at the Tidewater Veteran’s Memorial for the SEALs killed since 9-11
  • SEAL display at San Diego Veterans Museum and Memorial Center
  • Donation to the Special Operations Memorial in Tampa, Florida