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X&W Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$137kArts & Culture$55kRecreation & Sports$51kHealth$50kYouth Development$33kHuman Services$24kScience & Tech$12kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsborough Schools Foundation$15,000
The Tech Interactive$10,005
Burlingame Soccer Club$10,000
Stanford University$10,000
Burlingame High School Parents Grou$10,000
Young Mens Christian Association of$10,000
Daly City Dolphins Aquatics Associa$6,000
San Francisco Symphony$5,000
San Francisco Ballet Association$5,000
Burlingame Library Foundation$3,900
California Academy of Sciences$3,000
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation$3,000
Burlingame Aquatic Club Inc$3,000
USA Swimming Foundation$2,500
USA Water Polo$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%California Police Youth Charities: $100 → 6%Partnership With Native Americans: $3k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES: $200 → 12%CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES: $100 → 12%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190k · 14 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
30

Total granted

$190k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +32%
  • MH
    MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +16%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • PH
    PETIPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CI
    CHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • MI
    Music In Schools Today
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
6
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
8
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
9
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
10
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society At Strybing Arboretum

Gardens of golden gate park connects people to plants, the planet, and each other. the gardens offer educational and experiential programs for visitors and actively manages the living collections.

Environment
11
San Diego Museum of Man Dba Museum of Us

The san diego museum of man, dba museum of us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the kumeyaay nation, in san diegos balboa park. the museum of us extends its respect and gratitude to the kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Pacific Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Burlingame Parksforever Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%51%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,935

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $52,000 · EducationHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…BURLINGAME SOCCER CLUB — $10,000 · EducationBURLINGAME SOCCER CLUBBURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $8,900 · EducationBURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION+1 more — $3,000 · EducationTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $25,230 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVEPETIPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePETIPA HERITAGE FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYMusic In Schools Today — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMusic In Schools TodaySAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCI…HILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE — $6,625 · Arts & CultureHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTECURIODYSSEY — $6,137 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEYCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIEN…+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Mens Christian Association of — $24,000 · OtherYoung Mens Christian Associ…CHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER — $10,100 · OtherCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADUL…BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS GROUP — $10,000 · OtherBURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL PARE…BURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherBURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOU…THE PACIFIC SKYLINE COUNCIL (BOY SCOUTS) — $6,101 · OtherTHE PACIFIC SKYLINE COUNCIL…San Mateo Public Library Foundation — $4,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION — $3,090 · OtherDIG DEEP — $3,000 · OtherHillsborough City School District — $3,000 · OtherNAVAJO RELIEF FUND — $3,000 · OtherKIDS BIKES & BOOKS — $3,000 · Other+8 more — $10,160 · Other+8 moreMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $23,000 · HealthMILLS-PENIN…South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $5,000 · HealthSouth Count…CHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · HealthCHINESE HOS…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA …Daly City Dolphins Aquatics Association — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION — $8,272 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsUSA WATER POLO INC — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 · Human ServicesPartnership With Native Americans — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $400 · Human ServicesPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $3,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,000 · EnvironmentBURLINGAME AQUATIC CLUB INC — $3,000 · Philanthropy
Education$103,900Arts & Culture$90,992Other$89,451Health$38,000Recreation & Sports$26,272Human Services$13,400Environment$10,000Philanthropy$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $25,230 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPETIPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER — $10,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBURLINGAME SOCCER CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMusic In Schools Today — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBURLINGAME PARKSFOREVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDaly City Dolphins Aquatics Association — $9,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBURLINGAME LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $8,900 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHSTAR TEAM FOUNDATION — $8,272 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE — $6,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $6,137 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Mateo Public Library Foundation — $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURLINGAME AQUATIC CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA WATER POLO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MILLBRAE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Foundation at Hearst Castle — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITY — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Hoefer Family Foundat…Atkinson FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Bothin FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Saga FoundationGreene Van Arsdale Fo…The David and Lucile …Bny Mellon Charitable…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hoefer Family Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Saga Foundation · Greene Van Arsdale Foundation co KKR Accounting Services LLC · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization X&W Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder — 31% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to X&W Foundation?

Find your warmest path to X&W Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines