Achieving America Family Foundation
Pasadena, CA · EIN 95-7053032. Reported 147 grants totalling $6,796,441 to 95 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Achieving America Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Achieving America Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 6 grants totalling $475,500 to them. That is 9% of the $5,088,101 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell Fund | grantmaking organization | District of Columbia | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Tides Foundation | grantmaking organization | California | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Southern California Grantmakers | grantmaking organization | California | $10,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $603,202.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advancement Project | Los Angeles, CA | $1,003,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Catalyst California | Los Angeles, CA | $603,202 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State Leadership Project | Raleigh, NC | $475,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation | Berkely, CA | $370,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hopewell Fund | Washington, DC | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Volunteers Fund | Sacramento, CA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $210,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pennsylania Voice | Philadelphia, PA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Psgv | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Heartland Fund | Washington, DC | $160,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| America Votes Education Fund | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern California Public Radio | Pasadena, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Color of Change Education Fund | Oakland, CA | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Phil | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Advancement Project | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena City College Foundation | Pasadena, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Working America Education Fund | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth Service America | Washington, DC | $97,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St John's College | Annapolis, MD | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Accelerate Change Inc | Boston, MA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles River Revitalization Corp | Los Angeles, CA | $57,990 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Better Wisconsin Together Institute | Monona, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amalgamated Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Common Sense | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Campus Election Engagement Project | Lewes, DE | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Delores C Huerta Foundation | Bakersfield, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Public Concern Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voto Latino Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| All Americans Vote | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Nation | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Change | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Village Girls Academy School | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Imagine Nc First | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Education Foundation | Pasadena, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Armory Center for the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL | $33,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inner City Law Center | Los Angeles, CA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| River La | Los Angeles, CA | $26,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Levitt Pavilions of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 21ST Century School Fund | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Access Books | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Appalachian Peace Education Fund | Winchester, KY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Holy Family Church | South Pasadena, CA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Workmoney Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Capital & Main | Los Angeles, CA | $23,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Japanese American National Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Afn Education Fund | Anchorage, AK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Justice Center | Pasadena, CA | $18,720 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Things | Knoxville, TN | $18,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the La County Law Library | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Foster Youth Institute | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nextgen Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Art Alliance | Pasadena, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Voter Fund Project | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Huntington Library | San Marino, CA | $12,279 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern California Grantmakers | Los Angeles, CA | $10,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Antaeus Theatre Company | Glendale, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arlington Gardens | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Coalition | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Women Vital Voices | Pasadena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand Game Fund | Manchaca, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Psychotherapy Action Network | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Together in Mission | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona Democracy Resource Center | Phoenix, AZ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Jumpstart | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Turnout Activism Inc | Cambridge, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Art Club | Pasadena, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coro Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Count Mi Vote Education Fund | Lansing, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles Urban League | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mexican American Bar Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Techno Serve | Arlington, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban League | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Peace Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern California Grantmaker | Los Angeles, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasadena Beautiful Foundation | Pasadena, CA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camerata Pacifica | Santa Barbara, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand American Ballet | San Diego, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific Council on International Policy | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| YWCA Glendale & Pasadena | Glendale, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Society Daughters of the American Revolution | Washington, DC | $2,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasadena Museum of History | Pasadena, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | Chamberlain, SD | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Community Garden Council | Los Angeles, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Map International | Brunswick, GA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Cloud Indian School | Pine Ridge, SD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
35 of 95 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 42%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 96 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | $1,278,900 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $1,523,269 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 36 | $1,436,852 | $11,600 |
| 2024 | 51 | $2,557,420 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
54% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Achieving America Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 450 S San Rafael Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91105. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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