Xie Foundation

• The filing says the foundation makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered.
• Its grant dollars are highly repeat: 99% of its grant dollars in the latest filing went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, so a warm introduction or an existing connection matters more than the written case.
• No geographic focus is stated, so your location alone should not decide whether you approach it.
• If you do make contact through a connection, a modest request fits the record: about 8 in 10 grants fall between $50,000 and $6,650,000, and the median is about $225,000, though that band is typical rather than a ceiling.
• Organisations outside the universities, schools, robotics and golf groups that receive most of its grants should weigh their fit carefully before spending time on it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Stanford University · General Purpose.
  $19,782,8602024 tax year
• Stanford University · General Purpose.
  $11,925,3882024 tax year
• Pinewood School · General Purpose.
  $2,530,1492024 tax year
• Harvard University · General Purpose.
  $2,452,8002024 tax year
• Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics · General Purpose.
  $225,0002024 tax year
• Pinewood School · General Purpose.
  $223,7332024 tax year
• American Junior Golf Association · General Purpose.
  $200,0002024 tax year
• UC Berkeley Foundation · General Purpose.
  $187,7002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.