Grammy Award winner and American Idol judge Keith Urban presented a check for $300,000 (backstage at his show on Saturday night in San Diego) to the Navy SEAL Foundation (NSF) a non-profit organization that serves to support SEAL families and their parent commands in easing financial burdens, establishing support networks and funding command-sponsored activities. The donation made backstage prior to his concert at San Diego’s Sleep Train Amphitheatre, represents Urban’s share of artist and publishing royalties earned from his song “For You”, written for the motion picture Act Of Valor.

Said Robin King, CEO of the Navy SEAL Foundation, “The Navy SEAL Foundation is humbled by Keith’s generosity and support of our community and its families.  His generous donation will help fund resiliency retreats for 120 SEALs and their families, fund the opportunity for over 500 Naval Special Warfare children to attend summer camp in 2014, where they’ll learn the importance of teamwork, communication, cooperation, goal setting and overcoming adversity.” 

“I have a deep appreciation for the special bond that all of these families feel towards each other and for the commitment that they have made to all of us,” said Urban. “The NSF reminds us to acknowledge the importance and sacrifice that is made each and every day by those serving ‘down range’ as well as their loving families.”

The NSF is a non-profit organization that provides immediate, ongoing and unwavering support and assistance to U.S. Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewman, Naval Special Warfare support personnel and their families. Their mission encompasses five key areas including warrior support and family services, educational opportunities, legacy preservation, tragedy assistance and survivor support. 

Urban is currently out on his Light The Fuse Tour in support of his seventh studio album FUSE, which debuted just this past week at #1 on all-genre charts in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Keith Urban (Navy Seals) OC: …extraordinary. :36
“For me, and I said this to some of the SEAL guys too, you know, because they were saying thank you so much for the song and being involved in the film. I’d like to say it’s just mine and my family’s tiny little way of saying thank you for what they do. It’s really extraordinary what they do, and I think this film, particularly, when people see it will have a new insight as to what they do. The diversity, separate to their sacrifices and their honor — separate to that — their actual physical human skills are just extraordinary.