The Xfce team has now announced this in a blog post. Apparently, the project was able to collect significant donations from the community and has decided to finance Brian Tarricone, who has been active for a long time as an Xfce core developer. Tarricone is designed to create xfwl4, “a brand new Wayland compositor for Xfce.” A significant part of the project donations will be for this, but the Xfce team believes that this is an important investment in the future of the Xfce desktop environment.