· Public charity
Pasadena Art Alliance
The organization fosters appreciation of contemporary visual arts in southern california by supporting artists, exhibitions, educational programs & other art-oriented nonprofit organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $304,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $321,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $37,000 |
| ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | $30,000 |
| PASADENA CITY COLLEGE - VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM ASSOCIATES | $20,000 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SIDE STREET PROJECTS | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART | $14,000 |
| FULCRUM ARTS | $12,500 |
| CRAFT CONTEMPORARY | $12,500 |
| POMONA COLLEGE BENTON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| LAXART | $10,000 |
| SCRIPPS COLLEGE WILLIAMSON GALLERY | $10,000 |
| ARTLAB21 FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- ACART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN8× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +49%
- ACARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS8× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +216%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IAINNER-CITY ARTSone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +21%
- VAVENICE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -3%
- HOHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -23%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ica La and the most unlike its peers is Materials & Applications. 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 32 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 — 2% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 65 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 ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CRAFT CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism ↗
- Who funds SIDE STREET PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds ICA LA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOCKSHOP ↗
- Who funds THE BRICK ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART ↗
- Who funds MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS ↗
- Who funds LA FREEWAVES ↗
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: The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · The Annenberg Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Arts · California Humanities
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 Pasadena Art Alliance 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.