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Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation

Form 990, part iii, line 1 the PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES FOUNDATION was established in 1983 to receive and manage contributions from the pasadena tournament of roses association, its supporters, and the general public.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$219kArts & Culture$205kHuman Services$164kPhilanthropy$128kCommunity Improvement$126kYouth Development$106kRecreation & Sports$54kAnimals$31kEnvironment$26kOther$360k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $177,478 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $199,978 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PASADENA$35,000
ARLINGTON GARDEN IN PASADENA$20,000
PASADENA COUNCIL OF PARENTS &TEACHERSINC (DBA PTA COUNCIL OF)$10,000
GIVE MENTOR LOVE FOUNDATION$10,000
LIGHT BRINGER PROJECT$10,000
CALTECH Y$10,000
FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN$10,000
PASADENA PANTHERS INC$10,000
LINEAGE DANCE COMPANY$10,000
MUSTANG ATHLETIC COUNCIL$10,000
MONROVIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$9,978
YMCA OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY$9,000
PASADENA ALTADENA COALITION OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERS$9,000
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE$8,000
SAN MARINO NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $164k) 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.

area typical 11%CLUB 21 LEARNING AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%PASADENA - SIERRA MADRE YMCA: $25k → 14%YWCA PASADENA FOOTHILL VALLEY: $8k → 14%YWCA PASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY: $50k → 14%GIVE MENTOR LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CLUB 21 LEARNING AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%CLUB 21 LEARNING AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%CLUB 21 LEARNING AND RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 14%PASADENA ALTADENA COALITION OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERS: $9k → 14%STARS: $7k → 14%YMCA OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY: $9k → 14%YMCA OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 32 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
28

Total granted

$1.0M
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +254%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +169%
  • LP
    LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue -28%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • CE
    Chaparral Elementary PTA
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
2
The Pasadena Symphony Association

The mission of the pasadena symphony association (psa) is to provide musical concerts of the highest quality raning from orchestral performances to world-renowned artists in recital, and to provide the broadest access to youth education…

Arts & Culture
3
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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4
South Pasadena Little League

Youth baseball, softball and challenger

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5
Parent-Faculty Club of Chaparral School

Parent faculty association to support and augment programs for students at chaparral elementary school in the las virgenes unified school district.

Education
6
Pta California Congress of Par & Students Inc

To provide support and services to Haskell Street Elementary School.

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7
Pasadena Christian School

The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.

Education
8
Pasadena Police Foundation

The mission of the Pasadena Police Foundation is to assist with the planning, development, implementation and support of programs and activities of the Pasadena Police Department. Additionally, the Foundation raises funds to support police…

Unclassified
9
Pasadena High School Instrumental Music Club

Pasadena High School music students are provided an opportunity annually to attend a summer camp to focus on improving music skills and building rapport within the band.

Arts & Culture
10
San Pasqual Athletic Booster Assoc
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11
Pta California Congress of Parents South Pasadena Middle School Pta

To enhance the educational resources and environment for the students, teachers and staff of the South Pasadena Middle Middle School, a publicly owned and operated middle school in South Pasadena, California.

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12
Pasadena Recreation and Parks Foundation

To support recreational activities in the Pasadena public park system and celebrations sponsored by the City of Pasadena at various community centers

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mustang Athletic Council. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%30%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
16%
7,866/49,750

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 66 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/58
Grantees still filing
34/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $67,210 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKLight Bringer Project — $52,000 · OtherLight Bringer ProjectPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC — $25,000 · OtherMARK KEPPEL HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA BOOSTERS — $22,000 · OtherChaparral Elementary PTA — $20,125 · OtherPASADENA AREA READING IS — $20,000 · OtherPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC — $17,500 · OtherMOVE A CHILD HIGHER INC — $17,200 · OtherPASADENA PANTHERS INCORPORATED — $26,000 · OtherPASADENA PANTHERS INCORPORATEDPASADENA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $31,000 · OtherPASADENA AUDUBON SOCIETYArlington Garden in Pasadena — $25,563 · OtherArlington Garden in Pasadena+18 more — $146,605 · Other+18 moreTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS — $45,000 · EducationTHE FUND FOR PART…ALTADENA LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $34,500 · EducationALTADENA LIBRARY …PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $31,500 · EducationPASADENA HIGH SCH…Alhambra High School Mighty Moors — $24,500 · EducationAlhambra High Sch…San Gabriel Educational Foundation — $19,000 · EducationSan Gabriel Educa…THE CALTECH Y — $18,000 · EducationTHE CALTECH YPASADENA EDUCATION NETWORK — $12,183 · EducationPASADENA EDUCATIO…FAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · EducationThe Monrovia Public Library Foundaion — $9,978 · EducationMonrovia Reads Inc — $8,500 · Education+1 more — $5,850 · EducationLINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $56,000 · Arts & CultureLINEAGE PERFORMI…OAKWOOD BRASS - OUTREACH PROJECT — $38,000 · Arts & CultureOAKWOOD BRASS - …SIDE STREET PROJECTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSIDE STREET PROJ…San Gabriel Valley Music Theatre Inc — $22,240 · Arts & CultureSan Gabriel Vall…LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS — $16,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CHIL…SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE — $12,500 · Arts & CultureSIERRA MADRE PLA…MAKOTO TAIKO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE CONSERVATORY OF PASADENA SCHOOL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,100 · Arts & CulturePASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA — $58,000 · Human ServicesPASADENA - FO…Club 21 Learning and Resource Center Inc — $38,000 · Human ServicesClub 21 Learn…Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $25,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's C…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY — $16,920 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CH…Give-Mentor-Love Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesGive-Mentor-L…PASADENA ALTADENA COALITION OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEAD — $9,000 · Human ServicesPASADENA ALTA…LAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC DBA STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE — $7,000 · Human ServicesPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $118,400 · PhilanthropyPASADENA E…Triumph Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTriumph Fo…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $66,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …Assistance League of Pasadena — $54,000 · Community ImprovementAssistance…Pasadena Jr Chamber of Commerce Foundati co Scott Pool — $6,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Los Angeles County — $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA — $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentADELANTE YOUTH ALLIANCE — $16,000 · Youth Development
Other$470,203Education$219,011Arts & Culture$205,340Human Services$163,920Philanthropy$128,400Community Improvement$126,000Youth Development$106,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $118,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $67,210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $66,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA - FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA — $58,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $56,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetAssistance League of Pasadena — $54,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetLight Bringer Project — $52,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS — $45,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS — $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetClub 21 Learning and Resource Center Inc — $38,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOAKWOOD BRASS - OUTREACH PROJECT — $38,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetALTADENA LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $34,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetPASADENA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $31,500 over 3y, 77% of budgetPASADENA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $31,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetGirls on the Run of Los Angeles County — $28,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPASADENA PANTHERS INCORPORATED — $26,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetArlington Garden in Pasadena — $25,563 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSIDE STREET PROJECTS — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlhambra High School Mighty Moors — $24,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetSan Gabriel Valley Music Theatre Inc — $22,240 over 3y, 10% of budgetChaparral Elementary PTA — $20,125 over 1y, 11% of budgetSan Gabriel Educational Foundation — $19,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y — $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOVE A CHILD HIGHER INC — $17,200 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA — $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY — $16,920 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS — $16,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADELANTE YOUTH ALLIANCE — $16,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE — $12,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATION NETWORK — $12,183 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSOCAL BEEP BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAKOTO TAIKO — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDANCE CONSERVATORY OF PASADENA SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTriumph Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGive-Mentor-Love Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMUSTANG ATHLETIC COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAlhambra Educational Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $9,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMonrovia Reads Inc — $8,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPASADENA COMMUNITY GARDENS CONSERVATION — $8,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetFAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA ANITA FAMILY SERVICE CO JOANN SANDERSON — $7,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONEONTA NURSERY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $7,605 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC DBA STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…The Green FoundationPasadena Showcase Hou…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Harvey and Ellen Knel…The Rose Hills Founda…The Annenberg Foundat…The Ralph M Parsons F…Coalition for Hope an…Community PartnersThe California Wellne…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA48.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Coalition for Hope and Unity · Community Partners · The California Wellness Foundation

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 Tournament of Roses 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pasadena Tournament of Roses 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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