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Tanya Snyder

American businesswoman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ118143961 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tanya Ivey Snyder (born 1967) is an American businesswoman. She and her husband, Daniel Snyder, owned the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL) from 1999 to 2023. Snyder launched a charitable foundation in 1999, contributing more than $31 million to local community initiatives, and also helped establish the NFL's "Think Pink" breast cancer awareness campaign.

Early life

Snyder grew up in the Forest Park, a suburb of Atlanta. She was the third of four daughters. Her father worked in the computer and tech businesses. Snyder was a cheerleader in junior high school and high school, graduating from Forest Park High School in 1985.

Career

Snyder worked as a fashion model and as a clothing representative in Atlanta.

Snyder and her husband Daniel purchased the Washington Redskins in 1999, and she later launched the Washington Commanders Charitable Foundation. Since 2000, the foundation contribute more than $31 million to local community initiatives under her leadership.

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“Tanya Snyder” enters the record as american businesswoman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tanya, Snyder and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1999, 2023, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tanya, Snyder and American.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tanya Snyder” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.