California · Private foundation
The William E Hixson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $228k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The William E Hixson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $228k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $260k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $245k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $235k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $235k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $210k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $165k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Education Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Construction Industry Educational Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Los Rios Colleges Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Lifelong | $40,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Enterprise for Youth | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Afs-Usa Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Learning Choice Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The William E Hixson Foundation
- How much does The William E Hixson Foundation give?
- The William E Hixson Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $228,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The William E Hixson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Youth Development (13%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are The William E Hixson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: El Education Inc ($200k), Construction Industry Educational Foundation ($70k), Los Rios Colleges Foundation ($70k).
- Does The William E Hixson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The William E Hixson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The William E Hixson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The William E Hixson Foundation based?
- The William E Hixson Foundation is based in CA.
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