· Private foundation
The Fitzberg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $818k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $268,000 |
| ROSE BOWL LEGACY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $220,000 |
| UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| ONE ARROYO FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| THE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS | $100,000 |
| CHANDLER SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| VALUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $60,000 |
| DOOR OF HOPE | $60,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| KECK MEDICINE OF USC | $50,000 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +129%
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +99%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $790k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +400%
- CPCATZ PASADENA ATHLETIC TRAINING PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
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…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.
Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…
To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…
Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Polytechnic School and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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 52 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds Legacy Connections ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE ARROYO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Foothill Family Service ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIDE STREET PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA BASEBALLSOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
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 Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · The Green Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Edmund A & Marguerite LA Burke Foundation · The Ayrshire 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 The Fitzberg 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.