Current Grantees List

Pasadena Community Foundation stewards many charitable funds that will support organizations in our local community in perpetuity. We are proud to showcase the 2021 grant totals and grantees awarded in the Foundation’s six areas of interest and the new Racial Equity Grant Program.

2021

Arts & Culture – $226,787

A Noise Within
Armory Center for the Arts
ArtCenter College of Design
Boston Court Pasadena
Foothill Creative Arts Group
Light Bringer Project
Lineage Performing Arts Center
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC)
Muse/ique
Parson’s Nose Theater
Pasadena Art Alliance
Pasadena Community Orchestra
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Dance Theatre
Pasadena Heritage
Pasadena Master Chorale
Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena Symphony Association
Side Street Projects
Wisdom Arts Laboratory – Fractured Atlas

Community & Economic Development – $887,267

Bo & Arrow Group
Pasadena Public Library
Community Women Vital Voices
Making Housing & Community Happen
NAACP Pasadena
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
Pasadena Altadena Coalition of Transformative Leaders (PACTL)
Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative
Salvation Army – Pasadena
San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity
Westminster Presbyterian Church
+ 59 small businesses

Environment & Animal Welfare – $96,697

Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy
Pasadena Humane
Pets Are Wonderful Support-Los Angeles (PAWS/LA)
Amigos de los Rios
Arlington Garden in Pasadena
One Arroyo Foundation
Pasadena Beautiful Foundation

Health & Safety – $354,572

Cancer Support Community Pasadena
CASA
Community Health Alliance of Pasadena
Convalescent Aid Society
Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County
Huntington Hospital
Planned Parenthood of Pasadena & SGV
Ronald McDonald House Pasadena
Rose Bowl Aquatics Center
Walter Hoving Home
Young & Healthy

Human Services – $364,091

AbilityFirst
Academy of Music for the Blind
AIWA Los Angeles
Beacon Senior Housing Corp
Braille Institute of America
Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services
Door of Hope
Elizabeth House
Flintridge Center
Foothill Family Service
Foothill Unity Center
Friends In Deed
Harvest Village Ministries
HOPE
My TRIBE Rise
Pasadena Senior Center
Union Station Homeless Services
Villa Esperanza Services
Wayfinder Family Services

Youth & Education – $512,465

Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
Club 21 Learning and Resource Center, Inc.
College Access Plan
Families Forward Learning Center
Five Acres – The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Los Angeles County
Frostig Center for Educational Therapy, The Marianne
Hillsides
Institute for the Redesign of Learning
Learning Works
Mentoring & Partnership for Youth Development (MPYD)
Partnership for Success!
Pasadena Altadena Community Endowment Fund
Pasadena City College Foundation
Pasadena Delta Foundation
Pasadena Educational Foundation
Reading Partners
S.C.H.O.O.L.
South Pasadena AYSO – Region 214
Stars
Sycamores
+ 50 individual scholarships

Racial Equity Grants – $250,000

Adelante Youth Alliance
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
College Access Plan
Flintridge Center
Outward Bound Adventures
Partnership for Success!
Pasadena Altadena Coalition of Transformative Leaders (PACTL)
Reading Partners
Stars
STEAM: CODERS sponsored by Community Partners