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Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation

To support charitable endeavors in the san gabriel valley.

$75k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2022
20%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$13k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 20% of the organizations Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$13k100%
FY20225$29k20%
FY202111$62k100%
FY202014$62kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$85kHealth$34kEducation$13kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$12kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$3kPhilanthropy$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Pasadena Symphony Association: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArmory Center for the Arts: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetParson's Nose Productions: $11,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLight Bringer Project: $9,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVilla Esperanza Services: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Elizabeth House Maternity Home: $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Senior Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Theatre at Boston Court: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMuseIque: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHear Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLineage Performing Arts Center: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetConvalescent Aid Society: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA Noise Within: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArt Center College of Design: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pasadena: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Children's Chorus: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Alliance of Pasadena: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Southern California: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung & Healthy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHillsides: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Forward: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Support Community: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA50.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Pasadena 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.

About Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation

How much does Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation give?
Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $13,000, out of $75,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Health (21%), Education (8%).
Who are Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Pasadena Symphony Association ($12k), Armory Center for the Arts ($12k), Parson's Nose Productions ($12k).
Does Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
Where is Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation based?
Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation is based in CA.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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