We focus our grantmaking on six Impact Areas that address specific local causes and help connect donors strategically to pressing community needs.
Community foundations typically focus their grantmaking on strategic impact areas to drive deeper change, build stronger partnerships, and deliver measurable results where they’re needed most. By aligning donor passions with priorities in the Greater Pasadena area, PCF is able to fuel meaningful solutions and lasting progress.
Support for museums, arts education, historic preservation, cultural programs, and performing, visual & literary arts to create a vibrant community and a shared sense of pride and identity.
Fosters a healthy and thriving community with funding directed toward job training for individuals, disaster relief, and public libraries as resources and gathering spaces for residents.
Supports organizations caring for domestic and wildlife animals and those that improve, restore or protect urban forests and parks, the Arroyo Seco, and surrounding foothills.
Supports institutions and organizations focused on medical research, disease prevention and assistance, promotion of health initiatives and regimens, end-of-life care, and much more.
Funds programs focused on food insecurity and homelessness and provides support for special populations, including seniors, adults in recovery, and those with learning differences and developmental or intellectual disabilities.
Helps expand opportunities for students within the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), supports a broad range of college scholarships, and fosters the well-being of young people in the Greater Pasadena area.
Since its founding in 1953, PCF has granted nearly $155 million to nonprofits locally and nationwide — helping over 400 donors realize their philanthropic goals and make a lasting impact in the communities they care about.
Over $72 million dollars in donations to the Eaton Fire Fund and Altadena Builds Back Foundation is dedicated to help residents impacted by the 2025 Eaton Fire.
Nearly $50 million in grants were awarded through board discretionary funds — endowments entrusted by donors to the PCF Board to carefully review, evaluate, and vote in support of community priorities. T
26,396 grants have been awarded to nonprofits in the Greater Pasadena area and across the nation — advancing impact through decades of strategic philanthropy.
Since 2020, funds created for the benefit of the Greater Pasadena area, granted over $28 million to local nonprofits.
Explore the important work of local nonprofits and PCF’s success stories across all Impact Areas.
This milestone investment marks the largest grant ever distributed from a PCF fund to date and represents an important step in long-term recovery efforts for Altadena residents impacted by the devastating Eaton Fire.
The greater Pasadena community joined Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) for an uplifting celebration on Thursday, November 14 — the 25th annual Local Heroes Luncheon, a celebration of PCF’s $2.5 million in grant awards to 100 local nonprofits this year. In attendance at the University Club were more than 200 nonprofit leaders, community partners, civic and […]
On a warm August afternoon in east Pasadena, 20-year-old Sky Celine generously invited PCF into her brand-new apartment, proudly throwing her arms wide to show off her beautiful space. She is one of six young adults who are transitioning out of foster care and just moved into an innovative new housing project that resulted from […]
This milestone investment marks the largest grant ever distributed from a PCF fund to date and represents an important step in long-term recovery efforts for Altadena residents impacted by the devastating Eaton Fire.
The greater Pasadena community joined Pasadena Community Foundation (PCF) for an uplifting celebration on Thursday, November 14 — the 25th annual Local Heroes Luncheon, a celebration of PCF’s $2.5 million in grant awards to 100 local nonprofits this year. In attendance at the University Club were more than 200 nonprofit leaders, community partners, civic and […]
On a warm August afternoon in east Pasadena, 20-year-old Sky Celine generously invited PCF into her brand-new apartment, proudly throwing her arms wide to show off her beautiful space. She is one of six young adults who are transitioning out of foster care and just moved into an innovative new housing project that resulted from […]
