Pasadena Nonprofits Awarded More Than $300,000 in County Grants to Support Arts, Culture

Sixteen Pasadena nonprofits have been awarded a total of $300,100 in grant funds from the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, officials announced this month.

The money is Pasadena’s portion of $4.8 million in grant funds first announced by the agency on Aug. 12.

The funds heading to Pasadena come by way of the county’s Organizational Grant Program and Community Impact Arts Grants.

“Both grants support several cultural services that are essential to the community,” the Department of Arts and Culture said in a written statement. The program “expands the reach of those who have been historically and systematically marginalized.”

The local recipients of the Organizational Grant Program funds include:

• A Noise Within: $39,000 – Theater
• Kidspace Children’s Museum: $37,300 – Arts Education – Visual Arts
• Armory Center for the Arts: $39,100 Arts Education – Visual Arts
• Fulcrum Arts: $33,100 – Arts Service
• The Theatre@Boston Court: $25,200 – Theater
• Fund for Music: $33,300 – Music-Instrumental
• Parson’s Nose Productions, Inc.: $14,200 – Theater
• TA’YER: $4,700 – Theater
• Latino Arts Network of California: $4,700 – Literary Arts
• Oakwood Brass-Outreach Project: $2,800 – Arts Education-Music
• Friends Outside in Los Angeles County: $13,880 – Community Building/ Service, Social Justice, Youth and Family, Health/Wellness Services Workforce Development, Formerly Incarcerated
• Remainders Creative Reuse: $4,200 – Arts Education-Visual Arts
• Pasadena Master Chorale Association: $12,200 – Music-Choral/Opera

The local recipients of Organizational Grant Program funds are:

• Peace Over Violence: $ 12,620 -Mental Health, Social Justice, Youth, and Family, Health/ Wellness, Workforce Development
• Southern California Public Radio (SCPR, KPCC): $11,720 – Community Building/Service
• YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley: $ 12,080 – Community Building/Service, Social Justice, Youth Afterschool, Youth and Family, Immigrants

The funding is meant to help the local nonprofits, particularly during this unprecedented time, which has hit arts organizations hard.

“This year, we anticipate that Los Angeles County grantee organizations will use these funds in new ways as they adjust their operations and programming in light of the pandemic,” said Department of Arts and Culture Director Kristin Sakoda.

“We know these grants provide a critical source of public support for nonprofit organizations that, in turn, enhance the wellbeing and vitality of the region through the arts,” he said. “We continue to be inspired by the resiliency of our grantees in the face of the events of the past few months in remaining steadfast to their missions and in delivering high-quality arts and culture content to the residents of the county.”