FUND PROFILE

Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund

The Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund provides 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 fund Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Grants

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OVERVIEW

About the Fund

The Pasadena Community Foundation has released its Six-Month Impact Report detailing a powerful, community-driven response to the January 2025 Eaton Fire.

Thanks to extraordinary generosity, as of July 2025, PCF has

Raised $72.4 million
Disbursed $12 million to over 60 nonprofit partners addressing urgent needs
Committed $56 million to long-term housing recovery in Altadena with the establishment of the Altadena Builds Back Foundation.

PCF’s work is far from over—but this report shows how far we’ve come. Thank you for standing with us.

Our Role and Approach

Community foundations are grantmaking charitable organizations dedicated to improving the lives of people 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.

We know our community’s needs continue to evolve following a disaster of this scale. Of the many areas of profound need, PCF has concluded that it can make the most difference by focusing on three phases of funding support and by addressing specific issues in each phase.

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 July 7, 2025, Phase 1 funding has supported more than 40 nonprofits:

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
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 Senior Center
Pasadena Village
Shepherd’s Door
St. Vincent de Paul at St. Elizabeth Church
Stars
Victory Bible Church
Villa Esperanza
Young & Healthy
YWCA San Gabriel Valley

PHASE 2 (3-24 Mos): Stabilize and Support

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 July 7, 2025, PCF has supported 21 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

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

Family support and childcare

$1.3 million to a childcare consortium led by the Child Care Directors Alliance (CCDA), Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School, and the City of Pasadena Task Force on Early Child Development and Early Learning. Funding will provide tuition assistance to families; and support childcare providers to rebuild and remediate childcare facilities lost or damaged by the Eaton Fire and purchase new furniture, equipment, and learning supplies.

Mental Health Support & Summer Camp Scholarships

A Noise Within
AltaMed
The Armory Center for the Arts
Better Today Better Tomorrow
Boys & Girls Club Pasadena
College Access Plan
Gamble House
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

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 July 7, 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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Fundraising & Grantmaking Numbers to Date

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$74.4 million

as of September 2, 2025

Thanks to the generosity of donors across the country, PCF has raised an extraordinary amount to assist our community in healing and rebuilding.

$12.5 million

as of September 2, 2025

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

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.

Jun

20

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Foundation Awards Milestone Grant to Rebuild 22 Altadena Homes

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.

Apr

15

Children’s Mental Health the Focus of 2025 PCHF Grants

Pasadena Community Foundation’s is proud to announce this year’s Pasadena Child Health Foundation (PCHF) grants, which total $464,000 and will support 19 nonprofits serving children and youth in Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre. PCHF has been a fund of PCF since 2016. Unprecedented mental and physical health struggles The PCHF grant program awards funding annually, […]

May

01

PCF Funds $1.3 Million Childcare Relief Initiative

A crisis in the childcare sector has emerged in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire, and a consortium alliance of professional childcare-sector organizations are sounding the alarm about the human toll of this disaster. Pasadena Community Foundation has awarded $1.3 million from its Eaton Fire Relief & Recovery Fund to help the consortium begin addressing some […]

Jun

20