· Private foundation
Xelay Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $20,314 |
| XELAY FOUNDATION ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP 2025-2026 | $12,500 |
| XELAY FOUNDATION COLLEGIATE TENNIS SCHOLARSHIP 2025-2026 | $11,775 |
| LELE FOROOD TENNIS INC | $5,550 |
| ODYSSEY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS FUND | $2,100 |
| TAIWANESE AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE OF SAN MATEO COUNTY | $1,000 |
| STAR VISTA | $1,000 |
| GIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAN MATEO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY TSINGHUA FOUNDATION | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +104% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2025 · $431k · revenue +56%- NSNUEVA SCHOOL2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +17%
- XFXELAY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue ×15 · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $20k
- XFXELAY FOUNDATION ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP 2022-2023one grant, 2022 · $13k
- XFXELAY FOUNDATION ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP 2023-2024one grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
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,…
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The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
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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,…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 62 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.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NUEVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds XELAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Taiwanese American Foundation ↗
- Who funds StarVista ↗
- Who funds GIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA ↗
- Who funds San Mateo Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Xelay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Xelay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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