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Ella C. Price Endowment for Disabled Children

The Ella C. Price Endowment for Disabled Children supports Pasadena Community Foundation’s grantmaking in Human Services, with a focus on children’s health and well-being. Established through a 1920s estate plan, the fund continues to honor Ella Price’s lasting commitment to helping Pasadena’s children thrive.

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About the Fund

Ella Price died in 1941, but more than 80 years later, her commitment to children’s health and wellbeing lives on as a Pasadena Community Foundation Endowment Builder Fund. When Ms. Price created her estate plan in the 1920s, she directed that one-third of her estate be used “for help, assistance, and betterment of crippled children in the City of Pasadena.” Following her death, a bank managed her trust for several decades. In 1997, the bank transferred the funds to PCF, which created the Ella C. Price Endowment for Disabled Children to honor the intentions outlined in Ms. Price’s will.

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The permanent fund is now one of more than 20 Endowment funds that specifically support PCF’s grantmaking in human services. By 2025, the Price Endowment has distributed a combined total of $150,034 in grant funding to a dozen Pasadena-area nonprofits with missions centered on children’s health and wellbeing. The Price Endowment helped fund the following grants:

A 2020 Capital Grant to Professional Child Development Associates to improve “hybrid connections” during the pandemic.
Club 21 was a beneficiary of distributions from the Price Endowment for its 2021 “Every Child a Reader” project, which helps children with Down Syndrome learn to read.
In 2016, with support from the Price Endowment, PCF funded a $25,000 Capital Grant to Hathaway-Sycamores to renovate the kitchen at the El Nido residential campus for boys ages 11-18.
The Marianne Frostig Center for Educational Therapy has received several PCF Capital Grants over the years to upgrade campus facilities and technology. All were supported by the Price Endowment

The Ella C. Price Endowment for Disabled Children showcases how PCF works with donors to define and preserve their core values and to always honor their intent. It also illustrates how PCF is well positioned to steward funds across time to create sustainable, measurable impact in our community.

Grantmaking Impact

Through this fund, PCF has been able to

Provide sustained and flexible funding
Offer consistent financial support for our local grantmaking programs throughout Greater Pasadena
Enhance community programs
Empower organizations to expand their services and reach more individuals in need
Direct resources when and where they are needed most, respond quickly to emerging needs, and fill funding gaps that restricted gifts can’t cover.

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Pasadena Community Foundation
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 810
Pasadena, CA., 91101
626.796.2097
pcfstaff@pasadenacf.org

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