Founded in 1996, the 24th Street Theatre is a professional theater and arts center that quickly established itself as a rich cultural and artistic resource for the Los Angeles community. In addition to an annual series of professionally produced plays, 24th Street Theatre offers a broad spectrum of community programs, including a collaboration with neighborhood schools that provides during and after-school workshops, the Saturday Explorer Series, which offers free theater performances to youth and their families, and a professional program that teaches educators how to use the arts to enhance traditional methods of teaching. A $15,000 grant from the foundation supported "Connecting the Dots," a program designed to introduce the theater to Latino and youth audiences.

Since 1991, A Window Between Worlds has supported the recovery of thousands of battered women and children by offering them the healing and empowering tool of the creative arts. A Window Between Worlds trains shelter staff and volunteers as art facilitators to help women and children use art as a healing tool. For many women and children in the shelters, creative expression helps them transition out of a painful past into a more hopeful future, recovering their sense of safety, power and identity. A $10,000 foundation grant enabled the organization to hire a grant writer/development officer to increase capacity of services.

Established as a nonprofit in 1988, About Productions strives to create community dialogue by producing original theater that provokes new perspectives on history and humanity and challenges traditional assumptions about cultural and gender identity. The company utilizes a collaborative artistic approach and often fuses elements of video, film, photography, choreography, storytelling and music. An About Productions original piece, "On Earth as It Is in Heaven," was supported by a $15,000 grant from the foundation. The work combines the spoken word, lighting design and original music to explore the nature of prayer.

Established in 1947 as the Pasadena Art Museum's education department, the Armory Center for the Arts reinvented itself in 1989 and moved into the renovated National Guard Armory in Old Pasadena. Throughout the years, the community arts center has maintained its commitment to providing an accessible public space for contemporary art exhibitions, studio art classes for all ages and a variety of educational outreach programs to schools and the community. The Armory Center remains a leader in the art education field and was awarded a $5,000 foundation grant for operational support.