Ohio · Nonprofit
Columbus Jewish Foundation
Columbus Jewish Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,304,730 to it, the largest being THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND ($5,750,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year. Columbus Jewish Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Columbus Jewish Foundation administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programColumbus Jewish Foundation runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$93M
Recipients
354
Contributions on record
$25M
Donors on record
36
Payments out run 3.7x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Foundation for Jewish Camp Incshared funders
- Jhsi Incportfolio match
- Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.2M.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest JewishColumbus). These are real filings, and they are not money Columbus Jewish Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Columbus Jewish Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of Columbus Jewish Foundation's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Foundation for Jewish Camp Incshared fundersNY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Jhsi Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerson Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kim and Gary Heiman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- JEWISHColoradoshared fundersCO · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Seed the Dream Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- The Marcus Foundation Incshared fundersGA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Ebner Family Foundation · exempt
- JewishColumbus · exempt
- Jewish Federation of Columbus · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (9) · corp_trust
- Charitable Lead Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbus Jewish Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation?
- Columbus Jewish Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,304,730 to it, the largest being THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND ($5,750,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year. Columbus Jewish Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Columbus Jewish Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $19,304,730 in grants to Columbus Jewish Foundation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbus Jewish Foundation?
- THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbus Jewish Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 33funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing