California · Private foundation
Xl 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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,035
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,186
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $548k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Xl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 50 | $66k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $57k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $34k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $34k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $38k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $25k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $14k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc | $13,510 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $10,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA | $7,772 | 7 | 0% |
| Save the Chimps Inc | $7,628 | 7 | 0% |
| Ipas | $6,622 | 3 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $5,786 | 5 | 0% |
| Miraclefeet | $5,609 | 5 | 0% |
| Orangutan Foundation International | $4,730 | 5 | 0% |
| Polar Bears International | $4,614 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Medishare for Haiti Inc | $4,584 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Xl 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: The Annenberg Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Head & Heart Foundation Tr 12319 · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Arcus Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · American Express Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Bradford Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Xl Foundation
- How much does Xl Foundation give?
- Xl Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $65,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Xl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (45%), International (14%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Xl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc ($14k), United States Association for UNHCR ($10k), Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ($8k).
- Does Xl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Xl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Xl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, Greater Good Charities, Head & Heart Foundation Tr 12319.
- Where is Xl Foundation based?
- Xl Foundation is based in CA.
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