Your Endowment. Your Passions. Your Pasadena.

Target the greatest needs: Unrestricted Named Endowments support Pasadena Community Foundation’s grantmaking programs in the area of greatest need.

Endow your Passion: Restricted Named Endowments support Pasadena Community Foundation’s grantmaking programs in the areas of impact you choose (Arts & Culture, Community & Economic Development, Environment & Animal Welfare, Health & Safety, Human Services, Youth & Education).

• Legacy: Join a group of philanthropists committed to shaping tomorrow’s Pasadena.
• Local Impact: Grants generated from your endowment remain here in the community.
• Affordable commitment: For as little as $10,000 (paid in full or over time), you create a permanent charitable legacy.
• Simplicity: Paperwork is minimal, and once your fund is established, PCF assumes administrative and record keeping duties.
• Tax Benefits: Setting up a charitable fund through PCF gives you maximum tax benefits.
• Dedicated stewardship: PCF has an impressive track record of investing and growing charitable funds. The foundation currently manages over 450 funds and more than $161 million in total assets.
• Power of Endowment: Endowments are truly the gift that keeps on giving. The corpus of your fund is invested in PCF’s portfolio and grants are made annually; eventually far more than your original gift is distributed.

The “forever gifts” established by Pasadena Community Foundation’s Endowment Builders provide vital support to local nonprofits. They enable PCF to make versatile grants to long-standing agencies and new organizations, as well as meet urgent needs when they arise, such as COVID-19 relief funding.

Three Easy Steps to Become a PCF Endowment Builder:

1. Pick your passion

Designate your investment to one or more of PCF’s areas of impact: Arts & Culture, Community & Economic Development, Environment & Animal Welfare, Health & Safety, Human Services, and Youth & Education. Or, create an unrestricted endowment to provide flexible support for PCF’s grantmaking.

2. Name your endowment

Memorialize a loved one who has passed, mark an important milestone, or create an endowment to “pay it forward.”

3. Make your gift

Establish your fund during your lifetime or through your estate plan. It takes just $10,000 to start an endowment with PCF (or two payments of $5,000 over two years).

In 2023, PCF’s Endowment Builders helped generate $2.8 million in grant funds, supporting:

• More than 100 local nonprofits
• Scholarships to more than 150 students
• More than a half-million dollars in Capital Grant funding to 24 nonprofit organizations
• The launch of Petersen Scholars Program for transition age foster youth
• Emergency food pantry grants and a formalization of our Food Security Grant Program
• The launch of PCF’s Arts & Culture Grant Program

With its longstanding community involvement and leadership, PCF can help you align your values, life experiences, and interests to benefit the causes closest to your heart.

Contact: Liz Algermissen, Director of Development (626) 796-2097 x 105 or ealgemissen@pasadenacf.org

PCF is a 501c3 public charity Tax ID# 20-0253310