Michael Xie
US businessman
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
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Michael Xie is a California-based technology businessman, born in 1969, with an estimated net worth of ~$4.7B. Wikidata SEC records identify him as an insider filer associated with Fortinet Inc. SEC EDGAR
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 216 insider filings for Michael Xie, including filings connected to Fortinet Inc. Form 4 reports changes in an insider's ownership of company securities; his recent filings include Form 4 reports dated from February through June 2026. SEC EDGAR The records also include Forms 144, which notify the SEC of a proposed sale of restricted or control securities, and a Form 5, an annual statement used to report certain insider transactions not previously reported on Form 4. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
The Sunnyvale-based Xie Foundation reported $724.9M in total assets, $128.7M in revenue, and $37.1M in expenses for tax year 2023. It reported paying $35.4M in grants that year. ProPublica 990
Political Activity
FEC records report 61 contributions totaling $6,468.60 from March 2018 through October 2024. The party breakdown was $5,000 to Republican recipients, $138 to Democratic recipients, and $1,330.60 categorized as unknown; the largest listed recipient was Bob Huff for Congress, which received $5,000. FEC
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U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $6,468.60.
Top Recipients
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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.
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