Ohio · Nonprofit
WEXNER FOUNDATION
WEXNER FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,662,411 to it, the largest being THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND ($88,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $98M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Wexner Foundation does
Programs
Religious education program to strengthen jewish community leaders through intensive study of text in bible, history, philosophy and law led by experienced clergy & faculty. See attachment 1 - program for program description.
$2,661,167 spentLeadership development program for mid-career leaders in israel's public sector. Wexner israel fellowship program is unique partnership between Wexner Foundation, israel civil service and harvard. See attachment 2 - application.
$1,904,076 spentWexner graduate fellowship/davidson scholars program provides leadership development for jewish communal professionals in graduate schools. See attachment 2 - application.
$3,146,592 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $3.7M (−28%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Leslie H Wexner
Trustee / chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $12M → $14M.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $2.3M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WEXNER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WEXNER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WEXNER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 97% · 2019 96% · 2020 87% · 2021 84% · 2022 80% · 2023 87% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
91% of WEXNER 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. $505k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Organizations like WEXNER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEXNER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION?
- WEXNER FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,662,411 to it, the largest being THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND ($88,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEXNER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $97,662,411 in grants to WEXNER FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEXNER FOUNDATION?
- THE WEXNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $88,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEXNER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing