· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IPAS (INTERNATIONAL PREGNANCY | $3,186 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,591 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,581 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $2,500 |
| PASA (PAN AFRICAN SANTUARY ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| UNHCR | $2,200 |
| LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY | $2,136 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,105 |
| MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LA | $2,073 |
| SAVE THE CHIMPS | $2,073 |
| STRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN | $2,066 |
| THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,740 |
| MIRACLE FEET | $1,569 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | $1,545 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 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; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PAPAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +103%
United States Association for UNHCR7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +59%- LWLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA7× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEESone grant, 2018 · $6k
- NYNEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST CASESone grant, 2021 · $2k
- VNVIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK (CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA)one grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
70 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. 70 of the 117 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Downtown Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VETS ↗
- Who funds CAT TOWN ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY PAWS ANIMAL HAVEN ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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.
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
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 Xl 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.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- Project Medishare for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
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.