California · Nonprofit
XQ INSTITUTE
XQ INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,001,283 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($255,616,644). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $507M
- Net assets
- $468k
What Xq Institute does
Programs
Movement building and public awareness. Through our own activities and by supporting the aligned work of other organizations, xq seeks to build national will for high school transformation. We pursue that goal through creative use of media (including film, television and social media), storytelling, donated advertising, public reports on key issues in high school reform, and public speaking.
$15,201,676 spentSupport for new high school designs and tools & resources for community advocates to engage in high school redesign. Xq works in communities throughout the country, with individual schools and entire school systems, to help them dream big about what high school could be, turn their innovative ideas into action, and create more rigorous and equitable schools. Xq shares what's working with other schools and districts, so they can tailor new models to the needs of their own students and communities. Xq creates and shares open-source tools, based on research and design thinking, which empower people to take up the challenge of transforming their high schools with a unifying goal: unlocking the american promise of a high-quality education for everyone.
$31,647,344 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $22M to $13M (−41%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Russlynn Ali
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Laurene Powell Jobs
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $49M → $74M.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of XQ INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
XQ INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund XQ INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of XQ INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
XQ INSTITUTE's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like XQ INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for XQ INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds XQ INSTITUTE?
- XQ INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,001,283 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($255,616,644). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does XQ INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $507,001,283 in grants to XQ INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of XQ INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $255,616,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like XQ INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing