Foundations that fund nonprofits in Pasadena, CA
1,607 private foundations reported 3,403 grants to organizations in Pasadena, California, on IRS 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $239.2M in all. 106 of them are based in Pasadena.
Foundations1,607
Based in Pasadena106
Grants on record3,403
Their typical grant$6,000
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Foundations based in Pasadena
10 of the 106 local foundations that reported grants to Pasadena organizations: profiles in our foundation directory first, then by the number of such grants on their latest return.
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Perenchio Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California - General$3,174,000
- A Noise Within - General$750,000
- Muse-Ique - General$480,000
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Gave $12.6M in 2024
Unihealth Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Friends in Deed - Addressing mental health and substance abuse barriers to permanent housing for those experiencing homelessness$140,730
- Day One - Los angeles county wildfires 2025 recovery$100,000
- Pasadena Community Foundation - Los angeles county wildfires 2025 relief$100,000
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East West Bank Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Western Justice Center - Program support$5,000
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Gave $1.5M in 2024
Ann Peppers Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pasadena City College Foundation - Ann peppers foundation scholarship program for pusd graduates$150,000
- Pasadena Conservatory of Music (Pcm) - 2024-2025 music education & performance programs, in recognition of its 40th anniversary$40,000
- Pasadena Playhouse State Theater of California Inc - Pasadena ushers program$35,000
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John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2025- Polytechnic School - Gym Air Conditioning and Solar Project$500,000
- Frostig Center - Westside Campus$125,000
- Hillsides - Budget for Position of a Behavioral Healthcare Provider$100,000
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The Fitzberg Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pasadena Educational Foundation - General purpose$300,000
- Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation - General purpose$250,000
- One Arroyo Foundation - General purpose$125,000
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The Confidence Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- California Institute of Technology - Surf undergraduate research program$30,000
- Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation - Rose bowl institute program support$25,000
- Outward Bound Adventures Inc - Outward bound adventure's youth environmental restoration teams (ert)$20,000
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H Leslie Hoffman and Elaine S Hoffman Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Huntington Memorial Hospital - Campaign for huntington hospital$200,000
- Kidspace Children's Museum - In support of the masterplan for a capital campaign$50,000
- Kidspace Children's Museum - Support for a work of art gala$20,000
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Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Cancer Support Community - Charity$22,000
- Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center - Charity$15,500
- Pasadena Heritage - Charity$15,000
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Robert a Waller Foundation
Pasadena, CA · latest return: tax year 2025- Sequoyah School - Annual & faculty compensation fund$26,000
- Pasadena Senior Center - General operating support$7,500
- Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA - General operating support$6,000
Other foundations giving most in Pasadena
Based elsewhere, by the number of grants to Pasadena organizations on their latest return; profiles in our foundation directory first. Each shows its largest grants there.
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Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2023- Reach Out Worldwide Inc - General support$5,489
- Thru the Bible Radio Network - General support$4,887
- Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA - General support$4,528
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Gave $69M in 2024
The Ahmanson Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pasadena Plhs St Theatre of Ca Inc - Toward the purchase of its property$2,000,000
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Pasadena - Toward repairs and renovations to the pool at the mackenzie-scott branch$556,600
- Door of Hope - Toward construction of the lee home$500,000
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Gave $18.2M in 2024
The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pasadena Conservatory of Music - Over two years to construct a new music learning center and outdoor amphitheater$250,000
- Muse-Ique - For general support of musical events and community engagement programs$125,000
- Southern California Public Radio - For general support of public service journalism and civic programs in los angeles county$125,000
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Gave $38.1M in 2024
Weingart Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- National Day Laborer Organizing Network - Unrestricted operating support$300,000
- National Day Laborer Organizing Network - Support for harbor institute for immigrant and economic justice$150,000
- Project Passion Inc - Unrestricted operating support$100,000
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The Simons Foundation Inc
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Planetary context of habitability and exobiology$1,000,000
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Dissecting social attention in autism using large-sample eye tracking over the internet$304,626
- California Institute of Technology - Outer brain and inner brain: computational principles and interactions$218,200
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Gave $287.7M in 2024
Conrad N Hilton Foundation
Westlake Village, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Grace - To promote caregivers and childrens well-being by improving economic support for families with young children…$300,000
- Union Station Homeless Services - For greater LA coalition on homelessness, a project of union station homeless services, to expand the…$250,000
- Association of Catholic Student Councils - To provide leadership training opportunities for middle and high school students attending catholic schools…$50,000
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Gave $9.2M in 2024
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Doheny Eye Institute - Vision research for all$300,000
- Door of Hope - Door of hope campership program$100,000
- Neurotalent Works - Advancing autism and neurodiversity inclusion at work in los angeles$60,000
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Gave $48.8M in 2024
The California Wellness Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Flintridge Center - Core operating support$300,000
- LA Salle High School of Pasadena Inc - Core operating support$20,000
- Southern California Public Radio - Core operating support$15,000
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The Heising-Simons Foundation
Los Altos, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- California Institute of Technology - For the development of skipper technology$500,288
- California Institute of Technology - For research on the observational signatures of quantum gravity$432,931
- California Institute of Technology - For a molecular beam spin precession experiment searching for the cp-violating nuclear magnetic quadrupole…$377,966
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Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2025- Pasadena Humane Society - Matching contribution (general operating support)$5,393
- University of Science and Technology of China Initiative Fou - Matching contribution (general operating support)$2,800
- The Sequoyah Educational Center - Matching contribution (general operating support)$2,760
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Gave $29.1M in 2024
The J Paul Getty Trust
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- One Arroyo Foundation - Trustee - arts and educational program$40,000
- Armory Center for the Arts - Getty marrow undergraduate interns at los angeles county organizations$18,300
- Southern California Public Radio - Employee - arts and educational program$16,680
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Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- California Institute of Technology - In support of research into developing a novel quantum acoustic instrument to elucidate nonequilibrium…$760,000
- California Institute of Technology - In support of expanding the freshman summer research institute, which allows underrepresented minority,…$754,960
- California Institute of Technology - In support of the laboratory of dr. linda ye, which will target exploratory synthesis of exotic novel…$600,000
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Helen and Will Webster Foundation
Arcadia, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Huntington Memorial Hospital - Medical$1,000,000
- Pasadena Conservatory of Music - Conservancyconservatoryconservatory$575,000
- Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena - Education and health$305,000
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Gave $69.7M in 2024
W M Keck Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Foothill Family Service - To implement the new parents to professionals program$265,000
- Pasadena Conservatory of Music - To create more instructional and performance spaces on the conservatorys campus$250,000
- California Institute of Technology - For general support of charitable purposes.$175,500
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The Annenberg Foundation
Conshohocken, PA · latest return: tax year 2024- Door of Hope - General operating support$50,000
- Muse-Ique - General operating support$50,000
- Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation - General operating support$40,000
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Gave $8.8M in 2025
Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
Radnor, PA · latest return: tax year 2025- Union Station Homeless Services - Matching gifts$100
- Pasadena Humane Society SPCA - Matching gifts$100
- Pasadena Humane Society SPCA - Matching gifts$100
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Gave $3.9B in 2025
Lilly Endowment Inc
Indianapolis, IN · latest return: tax year 2025- Fuller Theological Seminary - Tenx10 collaboration project$17,000,000
- Fuller Theological Seminary - Pathways for tomorrow initiative$10,000,000
- Fuller Theological Seminary - Youth on faith & service initiative$7,500,000
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The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation
Torrance, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- California Institute of Technology - Md/Phd graduate fellowships at caltech$100,000
- Mount Wilson Institute - Education into the future$100,000
- Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science - Carnegie observatories: astronomy lecture series$35,000
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- California Institute of Technology - Support for dsa-2000: revolutionizing access to the radio sky$4,826,269
- California Institute of Technology - Support for clima: climate modeling alliance 2024$4,500,000
- California Institute of Technology - The dsa-2000 radio camera: revolutionizing access to the radio sky$2,409,535
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Gave $29.5M in 2024
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Irvine, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Caltech Beckman Institute - Research, general support & education$3,681,000
- California Institute of Technology - Research, general support & education$310,000
- California Institute of Technology - Research, general support & education$150,000
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Pasadena organizations several of these foundations fund
Organizations in Pasadena that received grants from two or more of the foundations above, on the same returns.
| Organization | Funders | Grants total |
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| California Institute of Technology | 14 | $25,674,782 |
| Southern California Public Radio | 11 | $388,070 |
| Union Station Homeless Services | 9 | $448,207 |
| A Noise Within | 8 | $969,210 |
| Door of Hope | 8 | $855,400 |
| Armory Center for the Arts | 8 | $619,877 |
| College Access Plan | 8 | $272,824 |
| Pasadena Community Foundation | 8 | $209,307 |
| Pasadena Humane Society | 8 | $33,288 |
| Villa Esperanza Services | 7 | $290,658 |
How to use this list
A foundation is listed because its own latest tax return itemizes grants to organizations with a Pasadena, CA address. Local foundations often give mostly close to home and are usually the most realistic first prospects for a small nonprofit; large national foundations listed here may fund only a few institutions in the city. Their typical grant is the middle of the funders' own typical grants across everything they fund. Open a profile for all of a funder's grants and any application instructions.
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