· Public charity
Columbus Jewish Foundation
Make Jewish life vibrant, safe, and accessible in Columbus, Israel, and around the world.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k85 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+13 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey | $8,776,926 |
| Jewish Community Center | $2,192,323 |
| Jewish Federation of Columbus | $1,542,985 |
| American Friends of Soroka Medical Center | $850,000 |
| OSU Hillel | $617,956 |
| Columbus Torah Academy | $542,719 |
| OSU Foundation | $489,445 |
| Columbus Jewish Day School | $421,479 |
| Congregation Agudas Achim | $366,889 |
| Chabad on Campus at OSU | $310,950 |
| Jewish Family Services | $277,154 |
| For the Love of Primates | $250,000 |
| LifeWise Academy | $250,000 |
| Ner L Horeinu | $200,252 |
| Congregation Tifereth Israel | $194,131 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Columbus Jewish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
178 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +110%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +36%
- CTCOLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +113%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $327k
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +30%- AGARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $151k · revenue -134% · 45% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
284 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 284 of the 354 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS TORAH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds WEXNER HERITAGE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS OHIO ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Jewish Federation of Columbus · Meuse Family Foundation · Safelite Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Columbus Jewish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus Jewish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Project Write Now Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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