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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.

$321k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$278kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$8kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $304,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $321,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $241k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS: $8k → 14%MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS: $7k → 14%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 34 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
25

Total granted

$1.8M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+18%

Still filing today

65%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +49%
  • AC
    ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +216%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IA
    INNER-CITY ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • HO
    HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • VA
    VENICE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -3%
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.

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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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Art Explorium
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3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…

Arts & Culture
5
Los Gatos Museum Association

Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.

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6
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

Art archive, library, and exhibition platform that collects underexposed artistic mode of expression happening in our current moment. sustains a unique experimental environment for critical inquiry; artistic research, and public dialogue

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
10
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
11
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ica La; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $180,500 · Arts & CultureARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTSTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $90,500 · Arts & CultureCRAFT CONTEMPORARYMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $88,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESProject X Foundation for Art and Criticism: $72,500 · Arts & CultureProject X Foundation for Art and CriticismSIDE STREET PROJECTS: $70,500 · Arts & CultureSIDE STREET PROJECTSSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $67,500 · Arts & CultureSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INCARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INCHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $46,000 · Arts & CultureICA LA: $39,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $327,750 · Arts & Culture+19 morePASADENA CITY COLLEGE - VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTS: $160,200 · OtherPASADENA CITY COLLEGE - VISUAL AND…FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA: $56,000 · OtherFOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLACALIFORNIA STATE DOMINGUEZ HILLS CSUDHPF: $55,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE DOMINGUEZ HILLS C…FULCRUM ARTS: $43,578 · OtherFULCRUM ARTSPOMONA COLLEGE BENTON MUSEUM OF ART: $39,500 · OtherPOMONA COLLEGE BENTON MUSEUM OF AR…VINCENT PRICE ART MUSEUM: $29,000 · OtherSCRIPPS COLLEGE WILLIAMSON GALLERY: $28,500 · OtherSCRIPPS COLLEGE RUTH CHANDLER WILLIAMSON GALLERY: $28,000 · OtherUSC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE ARTS EAGLE ROCK: $23,750 · Other+16 more: $174,500 · Other+16 moreART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $222,000 · EducationART CENTER CO…Pitzer College: $22,000 · EducationPitzer Colleg…+2 more: $14,300 · Education+2 moreTHE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $15,000 · Human ServicesDESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $4,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$1,141,250Other$663,528Education$258,300Philanthropy$45,000Youth Development$25,000Human Services$15,000Environment$8,000Civil Rights$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $222,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $180,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $90,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $88,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetProject X Foundation for Art and Criticism: $72,500 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetSIDE STREET PROJECTS: $70,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetSELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART INC: $67,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $64,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $43,578 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetICA LA: $39,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $37,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCLOCKSHOP: $30,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE BRICK: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $29,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA: $28,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVENICE ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPitzer College: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMATERIALS & APPLICATIONS: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLA FREEWAVES: $13,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART: $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMachine Project: $8,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCLAREMONT LEWIS MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $7,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCRAFT IN AMERICA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOAXIAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 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 HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE RYMAN-CARROLL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART 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 ↗

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 J Paul Getty TrustCalifornia Community …Perenchio FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Mike Kelley Found…The Andy Warhol Found…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Wilhelm Family Fo…The Annenberg Foundat…The Andrew W Mellon F…Ruth and Joseph C Ree…California Humanities
The J Paul Getty TrustCA56.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’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
    11report 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.

    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 65 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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