Ohio · Private foundation
The Wexner Family Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $72M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $155M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Wexner Family Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $57M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $38M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $65M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $40M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $36M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $17M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $25M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $30M | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wexner Foundation | $88,000,000 | 9 | 84% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $58,290,172 | 7 | 6% |
| Kipp Columbus | $19,377,221 | 7 | 15% |
| Columbus Downtown Development Corporation | $16,866,000 | 3 | 84% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $11,750,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Aspen Valley Land Trust | $11,450,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Kipp Foundation | $10,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Journey Foundation | $9,841,721 | 2 | 22% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $3,750,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Columbus Jewish Day School | $3,375,000 | 5 | 49% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($97M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wexner Family Charitable Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Columbus Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Hinson Family Trust Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Aspen Community Foundation · Meuse Family Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Wexner Family Charitable Fund
- How much does The Wexner Family Charitable Fund give?
- The Wexner Family Charitable Fund reported 33 grants totaling $72,229,022 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wexner Family Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (35%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Wexner Family Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wexner Foundation ($88M), Ohio State University Foundation ($58M), Kipp Columbus ($19M).
- Does The Wexner Family Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wexner Family Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wexner Family Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, L Brands Foundation, Columbus Jewish Foundation.
- Where is The Wexner Family Charitable Fund based?
- The Wexner Family Charitable Fund is based in OH.
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