Current Grantees List

Pasadena Community Foundation stewards many charitable funds that will support organizations in our local community in perpetuity. PCF is proud to make the following grants for the benefit of the greater Pasadena area.

2019

Capital

A Noise Within – $24,730
Adelante Youth Alliance – $15,446
Altadena Library Foundation – $15,000
Arlington Garden in Pasadena – $5,000
Armory Center for the Arts – $10,000
Boston Court Pasadena – $18,015
Boys & Girls Clubs of Pasadena – $9,250
Cancer Support Community Pasadena – $4,529
Carnegie Observatories (of the Carnegie Institution for Science) – $14,328
City of Pasadena, MASH – $25,000
Convalescent Aid Society – $25,000
Door of Hope – $25,000
Foothill Family Service – $25,000
Foothill Unity Center, Inc. – $16,454
Grandview Foundation, Inc. – $21,991
Institute for the Redesign of Learning – $14,085
Kidspace Children’s Museum – $20,000
Life Skills FORE Pasadena Youth, Inc. – $5,500
Pasadena City College Foundation – $19,533
Pasadena Community – $3,543
Pasadena Conservatory of – $22,900
Pasadena Education Network – $3,229
Pasadena Playhouse State Theater of California – $25,000
Pasadena Symphony Association – $20,000
San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity – $25,000
SAPPA – Fulcrum Arts – $2,500
STEAM:CODERS, a project of Community Partners – $12,599
The Marianne Frostig Center for Educational – $19,125
Union Station Homeless Services – $20,000
Walter Hoving Home – $9,104
Young & Healthy – $21,577

College Women’s Club of Pasadena Scholarship Foundation

Scholarship support for 12 women at five local colleges – $41,000.00

Education

College Access Plan – $20,000
Partnership for Success! – $20,000
Pasadena Educational Foundation – $30,000
Reading Partners – $25,000
Stars (formerly Lake Avenue Community Foundation) – $25,000

Giesen Trust

Armory Center for the Arts – $6,000
ArtCenter College of Design – $6,000
Pasadena Educational Foundation – $6,000
Remainders Creative Reuse – $3,000
Side Street Projects – $6,000
Wisdom Arts Laboratory – $6,000

Pasadena Assistance Fund

Armenian Relief Society – $25,000
Armory Center for the Arts – $25,000

Pasadena Child Health Foundation

AbilityFirst – $15,000
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena – $10,000
Elizabeth House – $20,000
Families Forward – $22,500
Flintridge Center – $10,000
Foothill Family – $22,500
Girls on the Run LA County – $20,000
Planned Parenthood PSGV – $22,500
Rose Bowl Aquatics – $20,000
Union Station – $15,000
Young & Healthy – $22,500

Pasadena Public Library Foundation

Central Library Elevator Project – $24,524

The Robert J. Fefferman Initiative

Math Academy – $67,000

Senior

Armenian Relief Society Social Services (ARS) – $10,000
Pacific Clinics – $10,000
Pasadena Meals on Wheels – $10,000
Pasadena Senior Center – $10,000
Pasadena Village – $10,000

Vista Nova Grants for the Blind & Visually Impaired

Academy of Music for the Blind – $10,000
Braille Institute of America, Inc. – $10,000
Eastside Center for the Blind – $6,500

Women at Work

Flintridge Center – $3,000

Yes, Virginia Fund

Boys & Girls Clubs of Pasadena – $2,000
Community Health Alliance of Pasadena – $2,000
Door of Hope – $1,500
Elizabeth House – $1,500
Families Forward Learning Center – $1,500
Flintridge Center – $1,000
Impact House – $1,500
PACEF – LINKS – $1,000
PACTL – $1,000
PCDA – $1,000
Treasure Little Children Foundation – $2,000