Texas · Public charity
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation
The BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION is dedicated to improving lives and communities through the power of literacy.(continued in schedule o)
- $783k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $754k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $754k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $852k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $672k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $549k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $707k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $1.0M | 53% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $888k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Houston | $1,123,670 | 6 | n/a |
| Harris County | $929,879 | 8 | n/a |
| Children's Museum Inc | $883,788 | 6 | 2% |
| The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc | $647,020 | 8 | 6% |
| Houston Public Library Foundation | $565,450 | 6 | 26% |
| Making It Better dba Literacy Now | $195,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Higher Impact Ministries | $181,500 | 3 | 98% |
| Houston Area Urban League Inc | $178,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Hype Freedom School Inc | $170,000 | 8 | 8% |
| First Book | $167,560 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · The Methodist Hospital · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Astros Foundation · Save The Children Federation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company
How this is measured
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About Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation
- How much does Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation give?
- Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $754,252, out of $783,252 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (15%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Houston ($1.1M), Harris County ($930k), Children's Museum Inc ($884k).
- Does Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Houston Food Bank, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation based?
- Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation is based in TX.
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