Ohio · Private foundation
Wexner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Wexner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 9 | $203k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $170k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $638k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $630k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $932k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | $585,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $420,000 | 5 | n/a |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | $240,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Hebrew College | $225,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Yeshivat Maharat Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Lawfare Project Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Jewish University | $195,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst) | $180,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Yale University | $99,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($817k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wexner Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Nisource Charitable Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · The Heinz Endowments
How this is measured
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About Wexner Foundation
- How much does Wexner Foundation give?
- Wexner Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $203,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wexner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (44%), Education (21%), International (17%).
- Who are Wexner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Yeshiva University ($585k), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($420k), American Friends of Natal Inc ($250k).
- Does Wexner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wexner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wexner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nisource Charitable Foundation, Columbus Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Wexner Foundation based?
- Wexner Foundation is based in OH.
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