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PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,655,890 to it, the largest being MCCREIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,080,100). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$18M
Revenue FY2025
108
Funders on record
$14M
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
55/108 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%

Against its field

PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 393 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 393 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.3M) Expenses 96 ($5.2M) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2019 Revenue 129 ($6.6M) Expenses 110 ($6.0M) Net assets 114 ($7.0M)2020 Revenue 90 ($4.6M) Expenses 91 ($5.0M) Net assets 110 ($6.7M)2021 Revenue 97 ($5.0M) Expenses 70 ($3.8M) Net assets 129 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 118 ($6.1M) Expenses 99 ($5.4M) Net assets 112 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 113 ($5.8M) Expenses 97 ($5.3M) Net assets 123 ($7.6M)2024 Revenue 99 ($5.1M) Expenses 96 ($5.2M) Net assets 132 ($8.1M)2025 Revenue 354 ($18M) Expenses 154 ($8.4M) Net assets 301 ($19M)
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Revenue (354)Expenses (154)Net assets (301)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 859 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$333k
17
$99k
18
$621k
19
$363k
20
$1.2M
21
$656k
22
$515k
23
$156k
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$9.8M
25
16
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.2M.

15 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

23%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 20%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

45% of PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 108 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 4%Fundraising 8%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,655,890 to it, the largest being MCCREIGHT FOUNDATION ($3,080,100). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $13,655,890 in grants to PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
MCCREIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,080,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 108funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing