Vermont · Private foundation
Xenon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,596
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $96k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Xenon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20 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 | 6 | $7k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $1k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $25k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $25k | 65% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simmons University | $24,575 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Heights Synagogue | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Yale University | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| United States Ski Team Foundation | $2,437 | 1 | 0% |
| Yale University | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Yale Club of New York City | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Yale University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mad River Path Association | $603 | 2 | 0% |
| Mad River Valley Arts Inc | $331 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Xenon Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Amica Companies Foundation · Marks Family Foundation · Jmz Charitable Foundation Inc · The Winthrop H Smith Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Deborah and Robert First Family Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Xenon Foundation
- How much does Xenon Foundation give?
- Xenon Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $12,341 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Xenon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Religion (17%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Xenon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Simmons University ($25k), University of Chicago ($10k), Brooklyn Heights Synagogue ($6k).
- Does Xenon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Xenon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Xenon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amica Companies Foundation, Marks Family Foundation, Jmz Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Xenon Foundation based?
- Xenon Foundation is based in VT.
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