· Private foundation
The William E Hixson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EL EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| AFS | $40,000 |
| ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH | $35,000 |
| YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING | $28,000 |
| CIEF | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +520%
- LRLos Rios Colleges Foundation3× · 2019–2023 · $70k · revenue +198%
- PLPROJECT LIFELONG2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CICONSTRUCITON INDUSTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- PLPROJECT LIFELONG SHERIFF'S COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.
Partner with public and private sectors to support creative and innovative programs for the benefit of students of the san luis coastal unified school district in the areas of academics, arts, career technical education, extra-curricular…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…
East palo alto academy foundation advocates for, advances, and raises funds to benefit the students and graduates of east palo alto academy, a charter school of the sequoia union high school district. our programs and resources are in…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William E Hixson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William E Hixson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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