· Private foundation
Nesbitt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT | $200,000 |
| PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| NAZARETH HOUSE | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| PACIFIC CLINICS | $150,000 |
| PASADENA SENIOR CENTER | $150,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE | $125,000 |
| PASADENA MEALS ON WHEELS | $100,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| WOODCRAFT RANGERS INC | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE | $75,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GDGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT4× · 2020–2025 · $470k · revenue +84%
- PCPACIFIC CLINICS3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +38%
- PSPASADENA SENIOR CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- FTFIND THE CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -72%
- ECEASTSIDE CENTER FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
The fid group is a not-for-profit that delivers social services to people in the greater pasadena area who are experiencing homelessness, food vulnerabilities, and poverty.
Pathlight partners with people with disabilities and their families to create opportunities to build relationships throughout their lives.
To provide quality educational and physical development programs for pre-kindergarten
The purpose of this corporation is to help people of all ages and walks of life build personal strengths needed to succeed in life, through operating challenging experiential learning courses and programs in school, urban and wilderness…
Women at work provides web-based job and career resource services with a mission to help women reach their full employment and earnings potential.
Rental apartments for low income seniors
To focus on the success of each student & involve parents in the education of their children. the school is comitted to providing appropriate physical space, materials, qualified personnel, and staff development in order to guide the…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Jvs socal is a california nonsectarian nonprofit serving nearly 30,000 clients per year offering hope and opportunity to a diverse community through job training, mentoring and education, combined with expert career guidance and employer…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIND THE CHILDREN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nesbitt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nesbitt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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