California · Nonprofit
Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts
Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,797,719 to it, the largest being CRESCENDO FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS ($1,744,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts does
Mission
The primary and specific purposes of Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts are to foster public interest in and appreciation for symphony, further the work of the los angeles philharmonic association and other local public benefit symphonic associations, support symphonic, cultural and educational programs for young people in southern california, and to promote and sustain public enthusiasm for symphony.Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts is an all-volunteer organization. The organization has no employees or payroll. The organization is a non-profit california corporation, whose members donate their time and talents to produce the annual pasadena showcase house of design. Founded in 1948, and formerly known as the pasadena junior philharmonic committee, the organization adopted the pasadena showcase house of design as its annual fundraising benefit in 1965. It is one of the oldest, largest and most successful house and garden tours in the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided support to los angeles philharmonic and other local area public benefit symphonic associations, and hosted various music programs to foster interest and appreciation of symphony and culture in the youth of the greater san gabriel valley area.
$1,193,502 spentof which $1,025,650 as grants$1,319,768 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,193,502.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.4M to $574k (−91%).
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.
30% of Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $640 → $318k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Showcase House For The Arts’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Showcase House For The Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is 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.
Against its field
Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts?
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,797,719 to it, the largest being CRESCENDO FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS ($1,744,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,797,719 in grants to Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts?
- CRESCENDO FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,744,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts 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 11 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing