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The Wexner Family Charitable Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$155MEducation$141MHealth$39MCommunity Improvement$17MScience & Tech$14MEnvironment$13MArts & Culture$7.7MHuman Services$3.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+17 grants · $71M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$11,250,000
KIPP FOUNDATION$10,000,000
ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST$9,750,000
WEXNER FOUNDATION$8,000,000
COLUMBUS JEWISH FEDERATION$7,702,022
HIGHLANDS II FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$5,400,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$5,000,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$2,000,000
THE JOURNEY FOUNDATION$1,500,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,325,000
NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM$1,000,000
PILOT DOGS$1,000,000
COLUMBUS JEWISH FOUNDATION$900,000
GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 9%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: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of The Wexner Family Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Wexner Family Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333M · 41 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
30

Total granted

$333M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $88M · revenue +13% · 84% of their budget
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $58M · revenue +36%
  • KC
    KIPP COLUMBUS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2024 · $2.6M · revenue 0%
  • ME
    METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
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
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy
7
Uc Riverside Foundation

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
49/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEXNER FOUNDATION: $88,000,000 · OtherWEXNER FOUNDATIONKIPP FOUNDATION: $45,221,558 · OtherKIPP FOUNDATIONNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $36,670,483 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+44 more: $30,783,825 · Other+44 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $58,290,172 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $26,250,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard…KIPP COLUMBUS: $19,377,221 · EducationKIPP COLUMBUSKIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $9,841,721 · EducationTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION+15 more: $11,244,606 · Education+15 moreJewish Federation of Columbus: $44,276,820 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of …COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $23,298,626 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $11,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION…Columbus Jewish Foundation: $6,650,000 · PhilanthropyColumbus Jewish Found…+8 more: $4,802,500 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $11,750,000 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $11,450,000 · Environment+3 more: $175,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $16,866,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementWGBH Educational Foundation: $3,750,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $165,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $1,380,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $637,001 · Human Services+1 more: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$200,675,866Education$135,003,720Philanthropy$90,527,946Environment$23,375,000Community Improvement$16,891,000Arts & Culture$3,915,000Human Services$3,267,001

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEXNER FOUNDATION: $88,000,000 over 9y, 84% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $58,290,172 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus: $44,276,820 over 9y, 57% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $26,250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $23,298,626 over 9y, 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: $11,750,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $11,500,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $11,450,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE JOURNEY FOUNDATION: $9,841,721 over 2y, 22% of budgetColumbus Jewish Foundation: $6,650,000 over 6y, 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 budgetPILOT DOGS ALLOWAY: $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.5% 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 budgetGLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC: $1,380,000 over 3y, 99% 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 budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $865,000 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $800,000 over 3y, 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 budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE: $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% 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 budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS: $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColumbus School for Girls: $184,606 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRoaring Fork Safe Passages: $115,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JOURNEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PILOT DOGS ALLOWAY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW ALBANY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL NEWBORN SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wexner Family Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wexner Family Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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