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The Wexner Family Charitable Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$155MEducation$141MHealth$39MCommunity Improvement$17MScience & Tech$14MEnvironment$13MArts & Culture$7.7MHuman Services$3.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+11 grants · $41M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$219M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000,000
WEXNER FOUNDATION$10,000,000
KIPP COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$8,341,721
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITEE$2,600,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLUMBUS$2,173,424
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$2,000,000
KIPP COLUMBUS$1,811,721
THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$1,314,626
PILOT DOGS$1,000,000
COLUMBUS JEWISH FOUNDATION$900,000
ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST$750,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$200,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$100,000
OHIO GOVERNOR'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY$100,000
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $179k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $167k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $167k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $100k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $25k → 5%GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $500k → 8%GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $380k → 8%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $300k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $300k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $300k → 15%CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $300k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of The Wexner Family Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Wexner Family Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$281M · 35 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
27

Total granted

$281M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+38%

Still filing today

86%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WF
    WEXNER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80M · revenue +20% · 84% of their budget
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $47M · revenue +36%
  • KC
    KIPP COLUMBUS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • ME
    METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
2
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado West Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsSenior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr20%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,233

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
47/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEXNER FOUNDATION — $80,000,000 · OtherWEXNER FOUNDATIONKIPP FOUNDATION — $45,221,558 · OtherKIPP FOUNDATIONNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $36,670,483 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+36 more — $17,134,825 · Other+36 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $47,040,172 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $26,250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvar…KIPP COLUMBUS — $19,377,221 · EducationKIPP COLUMBUSTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION — $8,341,721 · EducationTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION+14 more — $11,094,606 · Education+14 moreJewish Federation of Columbus — $36,574,798 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of …COLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $23,145,626 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $6,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION…Columbus Jewish Foundation — $5,750,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus Jewish Found…+5 more — $3,177,500 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $16,866,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,750,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,700,000 · Environment+3 more — $175,000 · EnvironmentWGBH Educational Foundation — $3,750,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $165,000 · Arts & CultureCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $1,200,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC — $880,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $637,001 · Human Services
Other$179,026,866Education$112,103,720Philanthropy$75,147,924Community Improvement$16,891,000Environment$11,625,000Arts & Culture$3,915,000Human Services$2,717,001

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWEXNER FOUNDATION — $80,000,000 over 8y, 84% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $47,040,172 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus — $36,574,798 over 8y, 57% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $26,250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $23,145,626 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetKIPP COLUMBUS — $19,377,221 over 7y, 15% of budgetCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $16,866,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $9,750,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION — $8,341,721 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $6,500,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetColumbus Jewish Foundation — $5,750,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $3,750,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $3,375,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,600,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,340,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $2,250,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $1,700,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $1,575,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $1,500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,492,500 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY — $1,300,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $1,200,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $1,200,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC — $880,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $700,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $637,001 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEXNER HERITAGE VILLAGE — $577,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $565,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE — $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH — $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColumbus School for Girls — $184,606 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRoaring Fork Safe Passages — $115,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Lady's Charitable Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationL Brands FoundationColumbus Jewish Found…American Electric Pow…United Way of Central…Siemer Family Foundat…Battelle Memorial Ins…Hinson Family Trust F…Encova Foundation of …Aspen Community Found…Meuse Family Foundati…Margaret and Robert W…
Columbus FoundationOH40.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Wexner Family Charitable Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Wexner Family Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Wexner Family Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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