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Kelly Foundation of Washington at a glance

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Kelly Foundation of Washington

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$441kHuman Services$90kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$68kFood & Nutrition$65kHousing & Shelter$62kHealth$38kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK$5,000
ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
THE JONAH PROJECT$5,000
GAGE ACADEMY OF ART$5,000
BACKPACK BRIGADE$5,000
KID CONNECT$5,000
KINDERING$5,000
KINGSTON CARES$5,000
ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
FRIENDS OF YOUTH$5,000
EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE$5,000
DEGREES OF CHANGE$5,000
ARLINGTON KIDS' KLOSET$5,000
BLACKPAST$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $5k → 9%KINGSTON CARES: $5k → 10%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%FOSTERFUL: $5k → 9%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%ARLINGTON KIDS' KLOSET: $5k → 9%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $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
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$367k · 22 repeat orgs$737k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
194

Total granted

$367k
$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HI
    Hunger Intervention Program
    5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +35%
  • NH
    North Helpline
    4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +161%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • NP
    Northwest Parkinsons Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +58%
  • PS
    PUGET SOUND MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +48%
  • BH
    BELLWETHER HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +31%
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
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
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
3
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
4
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
5
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,…

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6
Living Wisdom School of Seattle

Holistic enrichment programs for children who are preschool through Grade 8.

Education
7
Work Opportunities Inc

Work Opportunities empowers people with disabilities to achieve employment, independence, and full community inclusion. Through individualized employment services, job development, job coaching, school-to-work transition programs, and…

Employment
8
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
9
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashley House; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 257 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
35/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Helpline: $39,000 · OtherNorth HelplineTeytums Gifts: $25,000 · OtherRAIN CITY ROCK CAMP: $25,000 · Other+160 more: $562,000 · Other+160 moreMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $14,500 · Human ServicesMOTHER MENT…VINE MAPLE PLACE: $12,500 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE …FOSTERFUL: $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERFULSCARLET ROAD: $5,000 · Human ServicesKINGSTON CARES: $5,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesEileen & Callies Place: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $5,000 · Human ServicesPIZZA KLATCH: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services: $5,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies: $5,000 · Human ServicesHunger Intervention Program: $45,000 · Food & NutritionBACKPACK BRIGADE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSumner Community Food Bank: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $20,000 · HealthKIDS AND PAPER: $10,000 · HealthNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation: $10,000 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $5,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE: $5,000 · HealthUPOWER: $5,000 · HealthVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TAPROOT THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY TACOMA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGE: $10,000 · EducationWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSeattle Children's Chorus: $3,000 · EducationRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $20,000 · Animals
Other$651,000Human Services$97,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Health$55,000Arts & Culture$49,500Education$28,000Animals$20,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHunger Intervention Program: $45,000 over 5y, 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: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES NW: $15,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $14,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS AND PAPER: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN ARTWORKS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetFOSTERFUL: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCARLET ROAD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZ GIRLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEileen & Callies Place: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAPROOT THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JONAH PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUPOWER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamilies of Color Seattle: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFARESTART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIZZA KLATCH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast African Community Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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

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 Kelly Foundation of Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly Foundation of Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 257 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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