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Carmel Pasadena Foundation at a glance

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Carmel Pasadena Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$43kReligion$40kHealth$14kInternational$13kArts & Culture$11kAnimals$10kCivil Rights$9kEnvironment$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND GARDEN$10,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$4,500
FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT$3,995
RETRIEVERS & FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LURA TURNER HOMES: $6k → 11%LURA TURNER HOMES: $1k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 28 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
20

Total granted

$142k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +122%
  • NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +48%
  • TJ
    THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FF
    FRIENDS FOR LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
  • NP
    New Pathways For Youth
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • CC
    CLARK CO VETS ASSISTANCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
6
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
7
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
8
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
University of Southern California

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…

Education
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friends for Life Animal Rescue. 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

30 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. 30 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONA: $25,996 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONATHE WEIZMANN DAY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE WEIZMANN DAY SCHOOL INCPASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER: $14,125 · OtherPASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTERHUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND GARDEN: $10,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND GARDENTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,770 · OtherST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $4,800 · Other+32 more: $45,700 · Other+32 moreNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $9,000 · Community ImprovementBASIN WIDE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $1,000 · Community ImprovementISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $13,000 · InternationalFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $8,495 · Crime & LegalNew Pathways For Youth: $4,500 · Crime & LegalLURA TURNER HOMES INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $4,500 · Human ServicesARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,150 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,960 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$138,091Community Improvement$14,500International$13,000Crime & Legal$12,995Human Services$11,000Education$8,210Recreation & Sports$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WEIZMANN DAY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $8,495 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLURA TURNER HOMES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBASIN WIDE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETRIEVERS AND FRIENDS OF SO CALIF INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS BUILD: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE WEIZMANN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LURA TURNER HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
  • Who funds BASIN WIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗

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 Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Carmel Pasadena Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Carmel Pasadena Foundation 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 51 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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