Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Pasadena, CA · EIN 95-3915725. Reported 73 grants totalling $800,646 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Pasadena Tournament of Roses, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C42) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 30% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,563 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pasadena Educational Foundation | Pasadena, CA | $55,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Assistance League of Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | $54,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fund for Partnership for Success | Pasadena, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Club 21 Learning and Resource Center Inc | Pasadena, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lineage Dance Company | Pasadena, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Altadena Library Foundation | Altadena, CA | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oakwood Brass - Outreach Project | Pasadena, CA | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Light Bringer Project | Pasadena, CA | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arlington Garden in Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | $25,563 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Foothills | Monrovia, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pasadena Area Reading Is | Glendale, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Panthers Incorporated | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caltech Y | Pasadena, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | Pasadena, CA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Move a Child Higher Inc | Chatsworth, CA | $17,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Audubon Society | Pasadena, CA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Don Benito Elementary School | Pasadena, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pasadena High School Alumni Association | Pasadena, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dance Conservatory of Pasadena School | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Families Forward Learning Center | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free Arts for Abused Children | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Give-Mentor-Love Foundation | South Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| John Muir Hs Instrumental Music | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Makoto Taiko | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mustang Athletic Council | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | Altadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Gabriel Educational Foundation | San Gabriel, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Socal Beep Baseball Association | La Verne, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Triumph Foundation | Santa Clarita, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Monrovia Public Library Foundation | Monrovia, CA | $9,978 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Adelante Youth Alliance | Pasadena, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pasadena Altadena Coalition of Transformative Leaders | Altadena, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Men Christian Association of West San Gabriel Valley | Alhambra, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monrovia Reads Inc | Monrovia, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mark Keppel High School Drama Boosters | Alhambra, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Gabriel Valley Music Theatre | San Gabriel, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Side Street Projects | Pasadena, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oneonta Nursery School Corporation | S Pasadena, CA | $7,605 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Williamsport, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pasadena Education Network | Pasadena, CA | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Marino National Little League Inc | San Marino, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Junior Chamber of Commerce Foundation | S Pasadena, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| John Muir High School Alumni Association | Pasadena, CA | $5,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
18 of 48 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Steamcoders
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,ENGINEERING,ART&MATH TO DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS - Assistance League of Pasadena
EDUCATION(EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING,STEAM/STEM,LITERACY) - Arlington Garden in Pasadena
EDUCATION (EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING, STEAM/STEM, LITERACY) - Pasadena High School Alumni Association
FUNDS FOR SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS - Pasadena Audubon Society
EDUCATION(EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING) - Altadena Library Foundation
EDUCATION(EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING,STEAM/STEM,LITERACY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $202,563 | $9,000 |
| 2022 | 17 | $190,400 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $230,205 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $177,478 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pasadena Tournament of Roses's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 391 S Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91105.
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