Kelly Foundation of Washington
Historical FunderPort Orchard, Washington · EIN 91-1620836 · Private foundation
Grants paid (2025)$212K
Organizations funded25
Typical grant$5,000
Total assets$6.5M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $5,000 and $5,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2025):
| Contact | MARY LOW |
|---|---|
| Address | PO BOX 19208, SEATTLE WA 98109 |
| Phone | 2067068486 |
| MARYCLARELOW@HOTMAIL.COM | |
| Form and materials | SUBMIT ALL APPLICATIONS WITH OFFICIAL HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT, ACT AND/OR SAT SCORES, FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT FORM, PERSONAL STATEMENT AND THREE LETTERS OF REFERENCE, BY MAIL. |
| Deadlines | MARCH 10 |
| Restrictions | MUST BE ACCEPTED OR HAVE AN APPLICATION PENDING AT AN ACCREDITED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, INCLUDING COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND MUST BE A SENIOR LEVEL STUDENT AT A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL; SENIOR LEVEL IN HIGH SCHOOL; ACT SCORE OF 20 AND/OR SAT SCORE OF 1030; MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN OR HAVE A GREEN CARD. |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
4% of grants went outside Washington.
Grants paid in tax year 2025
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Education Foundation | Arlington, WA | With your "dolly parton's imagination library" program | $5,000 |
| Arlington Kids' Kloset | Arlington, WA | By helping to provide clothing and hygiene essentials for children and low-income students in northern snohomish county | $5,000 |
| Backpack Brigade | Seattle, WA | Through your weekend hunger bags program, helping to end weekend hunger for homeless and food insecure kids | $5,000 |
| Ballard Food Bank | Seattle, WA | Through your weekend food for kids program | $5,000 |
| Blackpast | Seattle, WA | By providing a resource for african american and global african history | $5,000 |
| Canine Companons | Santa Rosa, CA | By training and placing service dogs for children and youth with disabilities | $5,000 |
| Degrees of Change | Tacoma, WA | By empowering low-income, first-generation college students through educational support | $5,000 |
| Eileen & Callie's Place | Kent, WA | By providing support and resources to young women, emplowering them to mentor bipoc partidipants | $5,000 |
| Farestart | Seattle, WA | With your training programs helping young people transition to a positive adulthood | $5,000 |
| Friends of Youth | Kirkland, WA | Through your youth haven program, providing emergency shelter for young people | $5,000 |
| Gage Academy of Art | Seattle, WA | Through your programs for teens, cultivating youth leadership | $5,000 |
| Hope Unlimited | Stanwood, WA | With your anti-human traficking initiative | $5,000 |
| Hunger Intervention Program | Seattle, WA | With your healthy hip packs weekend program providing participating students a take-home pack every friday | $5,000 |
| Kid Connect | Tacoma, WA | Connecting dependent children to resources enhancing their development on their parth toward a safe and permanent home | $5,000 |
| Kids and Paper | Seattle, WA | By providing qualifying children with tutoring, artistic outlets, physical activity and more | $5,000 |
| Kindering | Bellevur, WA | With your families in transition providing truma-informed pediatric therapies for children experiencing homelessness | $5,000 |
| Kingston Cares | Kingston, WA | Through your food4kids program, providing food to students in food insecure households during their school year breaks | $5,000 |
| Mother Mentors of Whidbey Island | Langley, WA | With your playscape program | $5,000 |
| Orcas Community Resource Center | Eastsound, WA | With your hygiene bank that offers critical services and supplies to houseolds in need | $5,000 |
| Raven Rock Ranch | Redmond, WA | With your equine therapy and mental health counseling for at-risk youth | $5,000 |
| Teens in Publicservice | Seattle, WA | Through your mentorship, leadership and job training of interns who provide direct service to your nonprofit partners | $5,000 |
| The Jonah Project | Spokane, WA | With your advocacy program for survivors of sex trafficking in washington state | $5,000 |
| Vine Maple Place | Maple Valley, WA | With your year-round academic support programs for youth experiencing homelessness | $5,000 |
| White Center Food Bank | Seattle, WA | Through your mission to provide culturally familiar produce to your diverse neighborhoods | $5,000 |
| Foundation for Edmonds School District | Lynnwood, WA | Through your nourishing network program, providing meals to families in need in the edmonds school district | $5,000 |
The return also lists 29 grants to individuals ($87,000). We do not publish the names of individual recipients.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $212,000 | 54 |
| 2024 | $195,000 | 54 |
| 2023 | $172,500 | 51 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2025, filed Aug 28, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202642409349100904
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 91-1620836
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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