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George W Brackenridge Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+10 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,250,000 |
| GREAT HEARTS AMERICA TEXAS | $995,000 |
| ESSENCE PREPARATORY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $700,000 |
| HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $500,000 |
| PRELUDE PREPATORY SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $270,000 |
| NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $250,000 |
| 50 CAN INC | $250,000 |
| SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $250,000 |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY TEXAS | $250,000 |
| CHOOSE TO SUCCEED | $175,000 |
| HENRY FORD ACADEMY ALAMEDA SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| JUBILEE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS | $100,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +146% since the first grant, against +96% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GHGreat Hearts America-Texas8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +525%
- IPIDEA Public Schools6× · 2017–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +257%
- CRCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue ×75 · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- BCBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue +43%
- VTValor Texas Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue +94%
- SOSCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +276%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
Open a group of charter schools in Tarrant County, Texas that is the leader in state academic performance.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
The Chaparral Star Academy DBA Star Charter School provides instruction with the students' individual needs as the primary consideration.
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The mission of heritage academy charter schools, inc. is to provide educational services to students in grades pre-k through 12 through the operation of open-enrollment public charter schools under the guidelines of the texas education…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.
Nonprofit school chartered in the state of texas and monitored by the texas education agency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Basis Texas Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Learning Schools of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Great Hearts America-Texas ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LEARNING SCHOOLS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Valor Texas Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROMESA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS ↗
- Who funds TGP Public Schools ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds ESSENCE PREP INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE DYSLEXIA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds QUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ewing Halsell Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · 50can Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Texas Charter Schools Association · San Antonio Area Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Choose to Succeed Inc · City Fund · San Antonio Food Bank · The Brown Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization George W Brackenridge Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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