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Wexner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Science & Tech$4.9MEducation$2.3MInternational$1.9MReligion$1.2MPhilanthropy$701kHealth$15kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$300
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC$200,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-MID OHIO$1,450
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD$300
SECOND HELPINGS INC$300
FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION$300
OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC$300
GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA$300
FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO$300
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO$238
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS INDIANAPOLIS INC: $300 → 16%GROWING PLACES INDY INC: $300 → 16%YWCA COLUMBUS: $200 → 15%COBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $300 → 16%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $300 → 11%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $300 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $300 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $300 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $300 → 15%FURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $250 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $300 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $300 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $300 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $300 → 15%FAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $250 → 15%OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 → 15%OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 → 15%OHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 → 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

MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 28 repeat orgs$477k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$3.3M
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+10%

Still filing today

61%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionReligionCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $585k · revenue +41%
  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +13%
  • YC
    YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)
    5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -63%
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +139%
  • U
    UCLA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
5
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
6
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
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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9
Penn Hillel

The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Godman Guild Association; the most unlike its peers is Za kiyah House Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
31/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,954,345 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $585,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY+12 more: $1,216,100 · Education+12 moreHEBREW UNION COLLEGE: $525,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGEJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $500,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF …JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $420,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SE…RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL COLLEGE: $240,000 · OtherRECONSTRUCTIONIST RAB…Individual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…YALE UNIVERSITY: $99,000 · Other+21 more: $211,631 · Other+21 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,655,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWME…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERAT…+1 more: $422 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $250,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $200,000 · InternationalALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $90,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $30,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $15,400 · Religion+1 more: $100 · ReligionFAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $1,950 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $1,450 · Human ServicesOHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $900 · Human ServicesRANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS INDIANAPOLIS INC: $300 · Human ServicesGrowing Places Indy: $300 · Human ServicesWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $300 · Human ServicesCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $300 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200 · Human ServicesOUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH INC: $800 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS INC: $600 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $300 · Food & NutritionHilltop Urban Farm: $300 · Food & NutritionGROW PITTSBURGH: $300 · Food & Nutrition
Education$6,755,445Other$2,145,631Philanthropy$1,855,422International$450,000Religion$135,500Human Services$5,700Food & Nutrition$2,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,954,345 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,655,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $585,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $500,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $210,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $195,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST): $180,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $90,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY MENTOR FOUNDATION: $1,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF CENTRAL OHIO: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH INC: $800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BEND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $422 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLETCHER PLACE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS INDIANAPOLIS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Places Indy: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP COLUMBUS: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHilltop Urban Farm: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODMAN GUILD ASSOCIATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEXNER HERITAGE VILLAGE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZa kiyah House Housing: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOBURN PLACE SAFEHAVEN II INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S RABBINIC NETWORK LTD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Nisource Charitable F…Columbus FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Columbus Jewish Found…Hillman Family Founda…American Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…L Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Opportunity FoundationUnited Way of Central…The Heinz Endowments
Nisource Charitable FoundationOH18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Wexner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wexner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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 Wexner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wexner Foundation 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 63 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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