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Evans-Kelly Family Foundation at a glance

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Evans-Kelly Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$56kPhilanthropy$52kEducation$31kArts & Culture$31kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$11kAnimals$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA THEATER$10,000
LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS$5,000
CABARET FOLLIES OF LOWER COLUMBIA$2,500
PEACEHEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION$2,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF LONGVIEW$1,500
MARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $3k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $2k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $1k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 9 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$155k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +168%
  • GF
    Go Fourth Festival Association
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +35%
  • RF
    ROTARY FOUNDATION OF LONGVIEW
    8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • CT
    COLUMBIA THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • O
    OBLITERIDE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Royal City Friends of the Library

Build a new Public Library in Royal City WA

Education
2
Olympia Downtown Alliance

Serve as a catalyst for a vibrant and thriving downtown through service to business and property owners

Arts & Culture
3
Preservation Longview

To restore, preserve and promote historic Longview.

Arts & Culture
4
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
5
Chewelah Valley Land Trust Non Profit Land Trust Cvlt

Preservation of community forests, supporting education and community utilization of community lands in the Chewelah Valley.

Environment
6
Tacoma Public Library Foundation

Strengthening Tacomas thriving communities by fueling our public library system through philanthropy and outreach.

Education
7
Read Northwest

Read Northwest exists to elevate Early Childhood Literacy in Southwest Washington.

Education
8
Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands

Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands is dedicated to the preservation, care, and enjoyment of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.

Environment
9
Sequim Prairie Grange

Promoting family, farm & community life

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10
Clymer Foundation

Operation of a museum and art gallery honoring the life and art of Ellensburg native, John Clymer. The museum focuses on Clymer's style, his approach to art and the influence he has had on the art of others.

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of the Leeward Coast Public Charter School

Education

Education
12
Colfax Schools Foundation

Providing scholarships for the graduates of colfax, wa high school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peacehealth St John Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACEHEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $48,500 · OtherPEACEHEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY: $42,604 · OtherUNITED WAYLCC FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherLCC FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA THEATER: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA THEATERROTARY FOUNDATION OF LONGVIEW: $9,000 · OtherROTARY FOUNDATION OF LONGVIEWCOLUMBIA THEATRE: $8,000 · Other+14 more: $36,500 · Other+14 moreLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $23,000 · EnvironmentLOWER COLUM…MARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,000 · EducationLongview Library Foundation: $1,500 · EducationGo Fourth Festival Association: $9,266 · Public BenefitEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $3,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $2,000 · Human ServicesYouth and Family Link: $1,000 · Human ServicesLONGVIEW PUBLIC SERVICE GROUP: $2,500 · Community ImprovementPEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$165,604Environment$23,000Education$14,800Public Benefit$9,266Human Services$6,500Community Improvement$2,500Philanthropy$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $23,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGo Fourth Festival Association: $9,266 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetROTARY FOUNDATION OF LONGVIEW: $9,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetMARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,300 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGVIEW PUBLIC SERVICE GROUP: $2,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLongview Library Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCowlitz Chaplaincy: $1,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYouth and Family Link: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Health Care Found…The Honorable Frank L…The Kirchner Foundati…United Way of Cowlitz…John M McClelland Sr …The Wollenberg Founda…Nippon Dynawave Found…The Firstenburg Found…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Health Care FoundationWA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Health Care Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · The Kirchner Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Evans-Kelly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evans-Kelly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Evans-Kelly Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Evans-Kelly Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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