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Ann Peppers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD PASADENA AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $50,000 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC (PCM) | $40,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATER OF CALIFORNIA INC | $35,000 |
| UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES | $30,000 |
| VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES | $30,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD (FORMERLY MOTHERS' CLUB) | $30,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $30,000 |
| MOUNT WILSON INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATER OF CALIFORNIA INC | $30,000 |
| GET LIT WORDS IGNITE | $30,000 |
| INNER-CITY ARTS | $30,000 |
| A NOISE WITHIN | $30,000 |
| CASA DE LAS AMIGAS DBA CASA TREATMENT CENTER | $30,000 |
| PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DODOOR OF HOPE6× · 2019–2024 · $305k · revenue +235%
Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $290k · revenue +103%- VEVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JUSTIN EDUCATION FUND FOR LOS ANGELESASCENDING LIGHTSone grant, 2021 · $54k
- WSWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +13%
- ECECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENA AREA CONGREGATIONS DBA FRIENDS IN DEEDone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The mission of polytechnic school is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. the school envisions a community…
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is Family Hope dba Elizabeth House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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. 64 of the 83 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN ↗
- Who funds CASA TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley ↗
- Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds Flintridge Center ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD PASADENA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Weingart Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts
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 Ann Peppers Foundation 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.
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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