· Private foundation
Wasserstrom Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish ColumbusAnnual Campaign | $100,000 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hosp Found | $50,000 |
| JFEDLA | $25,000 |
| Columbus St Com Coll Culinary Sch | $22,500 |
| Jewish Family Services | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Jewish Columbus | $10,000 |
| Ohio Restaurant Hospitaltity | $10,000 |
| Lifetown | $10,000 |
| Bexley Community Foundation | $9,000 |
| Columbus Jewish Day School | $5,000 |
| Jewish Community Center | $3,500 |
| The Ohio State Foundation | $3,000 |
| Friends of Israaeli Defense | $2,500 |
| Community Found Texas Hill Country | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JJewishColumbus2× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +89%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TOThe Ohio State Universityone grant, 2021 · $152k
- NCNationwide Children's Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
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.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
The jewish federation of greater dayton is the central organization established to further the welfare of the jewish community. the federation coordinates social, welfare and cultural programs; fosters cooperation among jewish…
To raise funds and apply them to local charities including a jewish community centre, home for the aged, school and synagogue.
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.
To promote jewish learning and to vitalize jewish life through jewish education.
To further jewish historical education among youths
The foundation was structured to encourage funding of the jewish federation of greater des moines, and is responsible for adding financial stability by broadening the funding base and thereby improving the ability of the des moines jewish…
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 39 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
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 JewishColumbus ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DREXEL INC ↗
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 · Jay and Jean Schottenstein Foundation · Allene N Gilman Charitable Trust · Lori Schottenstein Foundation · Lippy Foundation · The Simson Foundation · The Wexner Family Charitable Fund · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wasserstrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wasserstrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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