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Kelly Foundation of Washington

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$441kHuman Services$90kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$68kFood & Nutrition$65kHousing & Shelter$62kHealth$38kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIZZA KLATCH$5,000
BALLARD FOOD BANK$5,000
URBAN ARTWORKS$5,000
TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOC$5,000
VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
DEGREES OF CHANGE$5,000
HEARING SPEECH & DEAF CENTER$5,000
NORTH HELPLINE$5,000
RAVEN ROCK RANCH$5,000
HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM$5,000
BACKPACK BRIGADE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
RAIN CITY ROCK CAMP$5,000
WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 10%FOSTERFUL: $5k → 9%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $5k → 9%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $3k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$257k · 15 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
155

Total granted

$257k
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+22%

Still filing today

87%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HI
    Hunger Intervention Program
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
  • NH
    North Helpline
    4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +161%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YOUTH
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -5%
  • NP
    Northwest Parkinsons Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +58%
  • PS
    PUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +48%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Seattle JazzED

Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.

Arts & Culture
3
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
4
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
5
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children

Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.

Education
6
Seattle School for Boys

Seattle School for Boys encourages and inspires boys to become collaborative learners, creative thinkers, and compassionate leaders who genuinely care about our diverse global community.

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7
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

—
8
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
9
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
10
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust

Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.

Philanthropy
11
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
12
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosterful and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCollege Access and Career P…Youth Music Education & Per…Supportive Housing & Homele…Food Banks and Emergency As…Local History MuseumsYouth & Family Support Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
13%
2,647/19,690

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 216 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

North Helpline — $39,000 · OtherNorth HelplineTeytums Gifts — $25,000 · OtherRAIN CITY ROCK CAMP — $25,000 · Other+164 more — $519,500 · Other+164 moreFOSTERFUL — $10,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND — $9,500 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACE — $7,500 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies — $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesSCARLET ROAD — $5,000 · Human ServicesPIZZA KLATCH — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $5,000 · Human ServicesHunger Intervention Program — $40,000 · Food & NutritionBACKPACK BRIGADE — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSumner Community Food Bank — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $15,000 · HealthNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation — $10,000 · HealthUPOWER — $5,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE — $5,000 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER — $5,000 · HealthKIDS AND PAPER — $5,000 · HealthVASHON ALLIED ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $9,500 · Arts & CultureLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY TACOMA — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TAPROOT THEATRE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGE — $5,000 · EducationSeattle Children's Chorus — $3,000 · Education
Other$608,500Human Services$67,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Health$45,000Arts & Culture$44,500Recreation & Sports$18,000Education$18,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHunger Intervention Program — $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Helpline — $39,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeytums Gifts — $25,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW — $15,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN ARTWORKS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTERFUL — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND — $9,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast African Community Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPOWER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCARLET ROAD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetZ GIRLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS AND PAPER — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TAPROOT THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies of Color Seattle — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Chorus — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Kawabe Memorial FundLiberty Mutual Founda…Wilkins Charitable Fo…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA61.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Kelly Foundation of Washington funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Kelly Foundation of Washington?

    Find your warmest path to Kelly Foundation of Washington 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 216 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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