Ken Xie
American businessman
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
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Ken Xie is an American businessman, born in 1963, with an estimated net worth of ~$5.6 billion Wikidata. He is associated with Fortinet through SEC insider-filing records SEC EDGAR.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 218 insider filings for Xie connected to Fortinet Inc. (FTNT), including recent filings from November 2025 through June 2026 SEC EDGAR. Many of these are Form 4 filings, which disclose changes in an insider's ownership of company securities, and Form 144 filings, which are notices of a proposed sale of restricted or control securities SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Sunnyvale, California-based Xie Foundation reported $724,877,338 in total assets, $128,731,936 in revenue, and $37,075,197 in expenses for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. The foundation reported paying $35,368,429 in grants that year ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
Federal contribution records show 34 contributions totaling $17,924.20 from May 2006 through November 2024 FEC. The party breakdown was $14,275 to Democratic recipients, $3,545.10 to recipients with an unknown party designation, and $104.10 to Republican recipients; listed recipients include Mike Honda for Congress ($5,300), Friends of Schumer ($2,900), Ted Lieu for Congress ($2,700), Honda Victory Fund ($2,600), and Friends of Andrew Yang ($1,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
Foundations are matched to a person by name, not by trustee records — so a same-surname family foundation can land here in error. Every entity below links to its full IRS filing; if one doesn’t belong, tell us at hello@skylarkcreations.com and we’ll pull it.
Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $17,924.20.
Top Recipients
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source. View on Wikidata