Kellogg pickleball courts get $10,000 grant for long-running repairs

A $10,000 Innovia Foundation grant will go to Kellogg’s public pickleball courts after years of patchwork repairs. The money goes to Kellogg Project Uplift for improvements on Kellogg School District property next to Silver Mountain Resort’s Silver Rapids Waterpark, moving the courts closer to being fully playable again.

The Kellogg award was part of a much larger funding round. Innovia’s 2026 Community Grants Program is distributing $1,307,505 to 125 organizations across Eastern Washington and North Idaho, with local volunteer advisory committees helping guide the priorities. This year’s theme is “Building Stability and Belonging,” and the grants are aimed at education and youth development, health and wellbeing, arts and culture, economic opportunity and improved quality of life. Innovia has been making grants for 52 years.

In September 2023, Silver Mountain Resort partnered with the Kellogg School District to revive the old tennis court area near Kellogg Middle School and turn it into pickleball courts. The work already done included pressure-washing the surface, filling cracks with asphalt and cement, sealing the court and painting it for community use by the end of July 2023.

Amy Miller, Silver Mountain Resort’s ticketing manager, said the goal was to create “a place where youth, families and seniors could stay active.” The courts sit between Kellogg Middle School and Dale Hunt Memorial Track, just west of Silver Mountain Resort.

Project Uplift has also been involved in other Kellogg revitalization work, including a 30-light-pole banner project.