· Public charity
Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation
To support charitable endeavors in the san gabriel valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $13,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $75,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEAM CODERS | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $9k) 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.
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 +178% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TPTHE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +10%
- ACARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +199%
- PNParson's Nose Productions2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- LPLINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +130%
- MMuseIquegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +73%
- TPTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +204%
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.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Provide video production training to the community of pasadena and civic meeting and event coverage. programs produced through the pasadena media studio cablecast on cable channels in the pasadena viewing area.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Pasadena dance theatre strives to provide classical and innovative contemporary choreography through professional dance performances and to offer a high caliber of dance training through its conservatory.
To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Lawndale is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center that engages Houston communities with exhibitions and programs that explore the aesthetic, critical, and social issues of our time.See Schedule O for continuation.For over 40 years,…
Kaleidoscope is a conductorless orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experience, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.
Pasadena Community Foundation builds and preserves permanently endowed charitable funds, provides grants and assistance to nurture and strengthen community organizations, serves donors to meet their philanthropic goals and promotes and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy and the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth House Maternity Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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 — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 28 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 THE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Parson's Nose Productions ↗
- Who funds Light Bringer Project ↗
- Who funds LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONVALESCENT AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hear Center ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds THE THEATRE AT BOSTON COURT ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth House Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG & HEALTHY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDES ↗
- Who funds Flintridge Center ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · The Green Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · The Patron Saints Foundation · Michael J Connell Foundation Michael J Connell Charities Lte · Perenchio Foundation · S Mark Taper 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 Rotary Club of Pasadena 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.
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.
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