Worthington Industries Foundation is sponsored by Worthington Industries Foundation. Makes charitable contributions to nonprofit organizations involved with education, civic organizations, health and human services, and arts and culture, primarily in central Ohio.

Living the Golden Rule - The Worthington Companies Foundation The Worthington Companies Foundation, formerly known as the Worthington Industries Foundation, exists to support worthwhile community causes in the areas where we live and work. In fiscal year 2025, the Foundation contributed $3. 1M to 73 organizations in our focus areas of Health, Human Services, Youth & Education and Civic Causes.

Funded by Worthington Enterprises and Worthington Steel , the two public companies formed by the December 2023 split of the former Worthington Industries, the Foundation’s community efforts now have the power of two companies behind it. The Worthington Companies Foundation is a donor advised fund of The Columbus Foundation.

America 250 Celebration – Ohio History Connection Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbus Canine Companions for Independence Children’s Hunger Alliance Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence Columbus Association of the Performing Arts (CAPA) Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation Columbus Chapter of the National Football Foundation Columbus Council on World Affairs Columbus Early Learning Center Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation Columbus Speech and Hearing Columbus State Community College Community Resources for Education & Wellness (CREW) Directions for Youth & Families Down Syndrome Association Dress for Success Columbus Franklin Park Conservatory Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland HOOVES (Healing Our Veterans) Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Kaleidoscope Youth Center National Church Residencies National Groundwater Foundation National Veterans Memorial and Museum Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation New Albany Community Foundation Northwest State Community College Foundation Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Ohio State University Foundation Peggy R.

McConnell Arts Center of Worthington Scouting America, Simon Kenton Council Spark Force – Manfacturers & Fabricators Foundation St.

Vincent Family Center Stowe Mission of Central Ohio Community Kitchen The Salvation Army of Central Ohio United Way of Central Ohio United Way of Paducah-McCracken County Worthington Firefighters Foundation Worthington Resource Pantry Citizenship & Sustainability Reports Nationwide Children’s Hospital The first community investment of the Worthington Companies Foundation and The McConnell Foundation was a $7.

5 million multi-year gift to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to create the Worthington Companies Pediatric Research Fund. Watch the video to learn more. Everyone deserves to have a place they call home.

We’re honored to partner with Community Shelter Board (CSB), an organization working to address homelessness with an empathetic, holistic approach. In 2023, our $125,000 donation helped underwrite housing programs for families and single adults in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, serving 14,961 people this year, including 4,906 children.

The Ronald McDonald House The Worthington Companies Foundation supports organizations focused on children’s healthcare through donations to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation and The Ronald McDonald House located across the street. As part of a $250,000 multi-year pledge to the Ronald McDonald House, we donated $100,000 in 2023, funding the addition of 80 guest rooms, which will serve an additional 2,000 families annually.

The Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland Empowering youth in our communities means creating opportunities to learn and grow, especially in STEM fields where less than one in five women hold leadership roles. To help address this underrepresentation, we partnered with The Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland to support their Dream Big Transformational Initiative.

A $100,000 multi-year donation helped turn their 220-acre camp into a STEM Leadership Center and Makers Space that opened in 2025. The campus provides hands-on learning through science and technology labs, trade skills training and outdoor learning spaces and programs. As a shared community resource, the project is empowering Ohio’s up-and-coming generation of women to pursue in-demand STEM careers and leadership.

For over 40 years, we have supported the Columbus Zoo’s educational programming and wildlife conservation in an effort to build better communities where our employees live and work. Last year, the Foundation donated $300,000 toward a $1.

5 million multi-year commitment to the Columbus Zoo’s Connecting People & Wildlife campaign, making the Zoo’s educational programming more accessible to the entire community and supporting wildlife conservation in Ohio and around the globe. Your Mission, Our Support We review grant requests twice a year: those received by May 1 will be notified in July, and grant requests received by October 1 will be notified in December.

The Worthington Companies Foundation accepts requests from nonprofit organizations with an IRS tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) and organizations in the local communities where we operate, with the majority of our financial support targeted in central Ohio.

We are unable to support individuals, religious organizations, ethnic organizations, labor groups, fraternal organizations or any request seeking financial support for debt retirement. We receive a very high volume of requests and, therefore, only a small percentage of requests are funded.