Seat Forward · Season tickets and company seats
The nights you can't use,
given on a standing schedule.
For season-ticket holders and the teams who manage a company's suites and seats: one simple arrangement, so the nights you can't use can become someone's first game, show or concert.
Every season package and company suite has nights nobody takes: the busy week at work, the midweek game, the client dinner that ran long. A standing release means those seats don’t need a fresh decision each time. When a night opens up, your coordinator sends a few details and the tickets, and a young person, a veteran, or a family facing hardship in the New York metropolitan area can be in the room instead.
What we accept
Sports, concerts, theater, comedy, festivals, family shows and the performing arts, from a single pair to a full season, as long as the tickets can genuinely be transferred under the rules of whoever issued them: the team, venue, league, sponsor or ticketing platform. Premium seats and suites are especially welcome, and so are good ordinary seats.
How a standing release works
- You decide what to release. Your organization decides, on its own schedule and by its own process, that a seat or a block of seats is free to give.
- You send the details. The event, the date, the section and row or the suite, and anything that comes with the seats or limits who can use them. The checklist below covers it.
- We confirm the seats can be given. We check that the tickets are transferable, current, and not already listed for sale or promised to someone else.
- You transfer the tickets. Through the platform's own transfer, a PDF or mobile ticket upload, a will-call name change, or by mail or hand delivery.
- We confirm they arrived. We accept the transfer and check that the tickets work on our side.
- The record comes back to you. A written acknowledgment for your records, describing what you gave.
For the transfer itself, our transfer help page walks through each platform step by step.
The details to send with each release
Your coordinator can keep this list and fill it in once per release. The more we know, the better the match.
The release checklist
- Event
- Team, artist or show.
- Date
- Including the start time.
- Section, row and seats
- Exact seat numbers if you have them.
- Seats together?
- Whether the seats sit together or are split across sections.
- What comes with them
- Suite food and drink, parking passes, club access, merchandise. List everything, so we can tell the recipient what to expect and check what actually transfers.
- Transfer platform
- Ticketmaster, AXS, SeatGeek, the MLB Ballpark app, Telecharge, a PDF or mobile upload, will call, mail, or something else.
- Deadline
- The platform's transfer cutoff or your own internal release deadline, whichever comes first.
- Restrictions
- Guest lists, ID checks, add-ons that can't transfer, resale rules, anything the issuer or venue requires.
- Age rules
- Any age limit on the event or the section, such as an 18+ or 21+ area.
What we ask of you
- One named ticket coordinator, and a backup if you have one.
- Your organization's usual lead time for releasing a seat.
- Confirmation that the seats you release are yours to transfer under the rules that govern them.
What comes back to you
A written acknowledgment for every release, describing what you gave, for your records.
Where the seats go
We place donated seats with young people, veterans and families facing hardship, directly or through the community organizations we work with, and any outing involving minors follows our safeguarding rules. When a seat can’t be placed in time, or would do more good another way, our donor terms let us sell it through lawful channels and put 100% of the net proceeds back into the program.
A word on taxes
The Legacy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity, so a gift of tickets may be deductible, generally up to what was paid for them. Our acknowledgment describes what you gave and never puts a dollar value on it. How a gift works for your organization, including for tickets already deducted as a business expense, is a question for your tax advisor. Our tax questions, answered plainly are a good place to start.
Holding your own season package?
The same arrangement works at any size. You can donate a single game or show in about three minutes, or write to tickets@supportlegacy.org and we’ll set up a standing release with you.
Start with one release
Tell us what you hold.
Share what your organization holds and who to talk to. We’ll set up the first release together, and if it works for you, we’ll make it standing.