Tanya Snyder

For the past two decades, Tanya Snyder has led the team’s charitable foundation, which has given back more than $29 million to the Washington metro area community, the team said. She also founded the team’s Women of Washington fan club and in 1999, when Daniel Snyder bought the team, helped to launch the THINK-PINK campaign for breast cancer awareness, a disease she fought nearly a decade later. Over the past year, Washington has overhauled not only its coaching staff but also its business operations after The Washington Post reported allegations of sexual misconduct from former employees. As the front office changed, the team and the NFL began to refer to Tanya Snyder’s role in the franchise’s decision-making. Public statements have been issued not solely by Daniel Snyder but by Dan and Tanya Snyder. According to court documents filed last year related to Daniel Snyder’s ownership dispute with his former minority partners, he owned 40.459 percent of the franchise, while his sister, Michele, owned 12.552 percent and his mother, Arlette, owned 6.489 percent. Those court filings came before Snyder agreed to buy out the combined 40.499 percent owned by Dwight Schar, Robert Rothman and Fred Smith. Fellow NFL owners voted unanimously in March 2021 to grant Snyder a $450 million debt waiver and approve his $875 million buyout of Schar, Rothman and Smith.