Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts Awards $1 Million in Gifts and Grants

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts has awarded $1 million in gifts and grants to nearly 90 nonprofit organizations and schools throughout the San Gabriel Valley and greater Los Angeles area, the organization announced on Wednesday.

This year’s awards represent the largest annual grant distribution in the organization’s 76-year history, bringing its total investment in music and the arts to over $26 million. It also marked a year with one of the highest numbers of recipients to date.

The grants, which were presented at the annual Gifts & Grants reception held at the 2024 Pasadena Showcase House of Design on May 2, will help support music education and arts enrichment in schools, youth orchestras, and music therapy programs, as well as underwrite concerts by the LA Phil and other local cultural institutions.

“We had such an exceptional group of organizations applying and it was so inspiring to learn about the incredible work they do within the community to support music and the arts,” said Lisa Loeffler, the 2023/2024 Gifts & Grants Chair.

Suzanne Hart, the 2023/2024 President of the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, added, “Our heritage and legacy are something of which we feel very accomplished. Being able to give away $26 million and to keep this going strong is a testament to the dedication, creativity, and perseverance of all our volunteer members – past and present.”

Funds for the Gifts & Grants program are derived from the organization’s annual benefit, the Pasadena Showcase House of Design, which is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful house and garden tours in the nation.

A total of 27,000 tickets were sold for the 2024 Showcase House. Community volunteers for several of the local nonprofit organizations are also paid to work as docents for the event, earning additional funding.

The 2023/24 Gifts recipients include LA Phil and the San Marino Unified School District. Grants were awarded to the following organizations, many of whom are based in Pasadena:

A Noise Within
Academy of Music for the Blind
Altadena Rotary Charities
Angelica Center for Art and Music
Arcadia Music Club
Artes Vocales
Assistance League of Los Angeles
Bethesda Repertory Theatre
Bloom Arts Foundation
Boston Court Pasadena
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena
Brightwork Newmusic
Burbank Arts & Education Foundation
California State Summer School Arts — San Gabriel Valley Foundation
California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foundation
Candelas Music And Arts Foundation
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles
Claremont High School Instrumental Music Boosters
Classical California KUSC
Clazzical Notes
Clifton Band Boosters
CoachArt
Elemental Music
Eliot Middle School
Families Forward Learning Center
Foothill Family
GIVE-MENTOR-LOVE Foundation
Glendale Youth Orchestra
Global Arts Corporation
Grand Vision Foundation
Hathaway-Sycamores & Family Services
Helix Collective
Institute for the Redesign of Learning
John Raitt Awards for Youth
La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation
LACHSA Foundation
LA County High School of the Arts Foundation
LA Phil Association (YOLA)
Little Tokyo Service Center
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles Music and Art School
Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles Youth Symphony Orchestra
Madison Project (BroadStage)
Makoto Taiko
Monrovia Wildcats Band Boosters
MUSE/IQUE
MUSYCA Children’s Choir
National Children’s Chorus
Neighborhood Music School Association
Oakwood Brass – Outreach Project
Octavia E. Butler Magnet (Washington STEAM Magnet Academy)
Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services
Pacific Crest Youth Arts Organization
Pacific Opera Project
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Master Chorale, Inc. / The Pasadena Chorale
Pasadena Senior Center
Pasadena Symphony Association
Playhouse Village Foundation
Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts
Salastina
San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus
San Gabriel Valley Music Theatre
Santa Cecilia Orchestra
Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund
South Pasadena Educational Foundation
South Pasadena Middle School Music Boosters
Symphonic Jazz Orchestra
The Colburn School
The Ebell of Los Angeles
The Harmony Project
The Marianne Frostig Center for Educational Therapy
The Music Center
The Pasadena Community Orchestra Foundation
The Sierra Madre Playhouse
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Theatre Americana of Altadena Inc.
Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind
Verdugo Young Musicians Association
Villa Esperanza Services
VOX Femina Los Angeles
Young Musicians Foundation

Planning is currently underway for the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design, which will celebrate its 60-year anniversary. More details will be released later this year.

Members of the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization, donate their time and talents to produce the annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design, its primary fundraiser.

Throughout its history, Pasadena Showcase has given more than $26 million to nonprofit organizations, particularly through its Gifts & Grants program, in support of music education, scholarships, concerts, and music therapy, while continuing to support the LA Phil.

For more information, visit https://pasadenashowcase.org/.