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Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund

In 2025, through the Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund, Pasadena Community Foundation has delivered more than $13.5 million to accelerate recovery across our devastated community. PCF remains at the forefront of fire relief, championing Altadena’s long-term housing recovery and directing resources to community-based nonprofit agencies in support of families and individuals in Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre directly impacted by the Eaton Fire.

Donate to this fundEaton Fire Relief & Recovery Grants
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OVERVIEW

About the Fund

Thanks to extraordinary generosity, as of November 10, 2025, PCF has

  • Disbursed $13.5 million to over 100 nonprofit partners addressing urgent needs. See list of PCF 2025 grantees, which includes Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery grantees as of November 1.
  • Established the Altadena Builds Back Foundation  to prioritize a community-centered recovery that focuses on restoring homes, helping renters return, and preserving the vibrancy, affordability, and diversity of Altadena.

To learn about our fire relief work in the first half of 2025, read our Six-Month Impact Report which details a powerful, community-driven response to the Eaton Fire.

Our Role and Approach

Community foundations are nonprofit public charities focused on improving the lives of people through grantmaking in a defined local geographic area. As a community foundation in the Greater Pasadena area since 1953, PCF has a long history of catalyzing change through philanthropy. PCF supports more than 100 nonprofits in Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre with grant funding each year. Moreover, because of its long-standing relationships throughout Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre, PCF serves as a community leader that convenes partners around important initiatives and connects funders to organizations and to projects.

For these reasons, PCF is in a unique position to aid the Eaton Fire relief and recovery efforts. Our work includes not only strategic grantmaking through the Eaton Fire Fund but also sharing information, convening, coordinating, and collaborating with a range of partners.

Our community’s needs will continue to evolve following a disaster of this scale. Your support will ensure PCF’s ongoing support of our nonprofit partners on the frontlines of fire response.

 

PHASE 1 (0-24 Mos): Respond and Relieve

In the months following the Eaton Fire, the Pasadena Community Foundation has partnered with nonprofit organizations throughout Altadena and Pasadena to direct emergency grants to impacted fire residents. These nonprofits were on the ground immediately and, with the help of PCF funding, disbursing aid that included:

  • Cash assistance
  • Groceries and emergency supplies
  • Emergency childcare
  • Rental assistance
  • Emergency housing

Phase 1 Grantee List
As of November 1, 2025, Phase 1 funding has supported more than 40 nonprofits and faith-based organizations:

Altadena Library Foundation
Altadena Rotary Charities
Altadena Town Council/Altadena Eaton Fire Relief Fund
Beacon Housing (2 grants)
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
Casa Treatment Center
College Access Plan
Convalescent Aid Society
Door of Hope
Families Forward Learning Center
First African Methodist Episcopal Church
Five Acres
Flintridge Center
Foothill Family
Foothill Unity
Friends in Deed
Friends of the Altadena Library
Harambee Ministries
Huntington Hospital – Senior Care Network
Impact House
Learning Works
MPYD (Mentoring & Partnership for Youth Development)
My Tribe Rise
NDLON/Pasadena Job Center (2 grants)
New Revelation Baptist Church
PACTL (2 grants)
Pacific Clinics
Pasadena Audubon Society
Pasadena Humane
Pasadena Meals on Wheels
Pasadena Rosebud Charter School
Pasadena Senior Center
Pasadena Village (2 grants)
Project Passion
Shepherd’s Door
St. Vincent de Paul at St. Elizabeth Church
Stars
Urban Homestead
Victory Bible Church
Villa Esperanza
WatchItGrow
Young & Healthy
YWCA San Gabriel Valley

 

PHASE 2 (3-24 Mos): Stabilize and Support
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Phase 2 funding will be disbursed to local nonprofits that are providing the following stabilization and support aid:

  • Temporary and medium-term housing
  • Family support and childcare
  • Mental health support
  • Case management

Phase 2 Grantee List

As of November 1, 2025, PCF has supported 35 nonprofits and a $1.3 million childcare sector-relief initiative with Phase 2 funding. More will continue to be announced.

Temporary and medium-term housing

  • Civic Soul
  • College Access Plan
  • Door of Hope (2)
  • Friends in Deed
  • Greenline Housing Foundation
  • Union Station Homeless Services

Family support and childcare

  • The Harmony Project
  • Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School
  • Pasadena Educational Foundation
  • Professional Child  Development Associates
  • Shoes That Fit

Mental Health Support & Summer Camp Scholarships

  • AltaMed Health Services
  • Westminster Center

Summer Camps

  • A Noise Within
  • The Armory Center for the Arts
  • Better Today Better Tomorrow
  • Boys & Girls Club Pasadena
  • College Access Plan
  • Gamble House Conservancy
  • HMRI at Huntington Health
  • MPYD at John Muir High School
  • LA County Parks & Recreation Department
  • Pasadena Educational Foundation
  • Pasadena Sierra Madre YMCA
  • Stars
  • STEAMcoders

Case management

  • United Policy Holders

Community Connectors

  • Altagether
  • Black Education Expo
  • Day One
  • Eaton Fire Collective
  • Eaton Fire Survivors Network
  • First AME Church
  • Jericho Road Pasadena
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of LA County
  • TEDxAltadena
PHASE 3: (Long-Term) Recover and Rebuild
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PCF has formed the Altadena Builds Back Foundation as a supporting organization to focus resources and local leadership towards the long-term recovery and rebuilding of residential Altadena. ABBF has secured $56 million from generous donors who earmarked their gifts to support long-term housing recovery. Priorities include:

  • Gap funding for rebuilding
  • Land banking
  • Case management and financial counsel as it relates to rebuilding

ABBF and PCF are currently working with local leaders, residents, and community stakeholders to continue formulating plans.

Phase 3 Grantee List

As of November 1, 2025, PCF has supported three nonprofits with Phase 3 funding. More will be announced soon.

  • Greenline Housing Foundation
  • Beacon Housing (2)
  • San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity
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Grantmaking Impact

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$13.5+ million

as of November 10, 2025

PCF has partnered with more than 60 nonprofits that are addressing a wide range of community needs following the Eaton Fire.

Affordable ADUs

for Eaton Fire Survivors

PCF funded the construction of three units of affordable housing for low-income fire survivors in partnership with Beacon Housing and YMCA of the Foothills.

ADUs
$500K+

for Mental Health initiatives

To date, PCF’s Eaton Fire funding has supported 20 nonprofits offering critical mental health services for fire survivors.

Funding Requests

PCF invites nonprofit and community partners that are addressing fire relief and serve residents in the Greater Pasadena Area (Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre) to apply for funding from the Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund. Visit the Eaton Fire Relief Grants page for complete information.

Please email the Community Impact team with questions: grants@pasadenacf.org

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Stories of Impact

Pasadena Community Foundation has partnered with more than 50 local nonprofits to support immediate needs, stable housing, mental health and longer-term residential recovery. Our stories showcase our work and impact.

Oct
29
A woman stands at a podium that says Eaton Fire Collaborative. Behind her are three adults standing and listening, and three signs that say Partners

Community-Led Resilience: The Eaton Fire Collaboratory & Long-Term Recovery Group
Oct
10
A group of elementary school-aged children all wearing the same bright green soccer jerseys, run on a soccer field toward the camera, laughing and kicking the ball

Supporting Mental Health, Resilience, & Well-Being in the Wake of the Eaton Fire
Oct
07
A close up of the exterior red-brick and stucco frontage of an apartment building that says Garfield Agape Court and the address numbers 445 below it

Rebuilding Hope: PCF Funds Affordable Homes for Fire Survivors
Oct
29
A woman stands at a podium that says Eaton Fire Collaborative. Behind her are three adults standing and listening, and three signs that say Partners

Community-Led Resilience: The Eaton Fire Collaboratory & Long-Term Recovery Group
Oct
10
A group of elementary school-aged children all wearing the same bright green soccer jerseys, run on a soccer field toward the camera, laughing and kicking the ball

Supporting Mental Health, Resilience, & Well-Being in the Wake of the Eaton Fire
Oct
07
A close up of the exterior red-brick and stucco frontage of an apartment building that says Garfield Agape Court and the address numbers 445 below it

Rebuilding Hope: PCF Funds Affordable Homes for Fire Survivors