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George W Brackenridge Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$21MEnvironment$4.4MArts & Culture$169kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Benefit$20k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
  • $250k+10 grants · $6.2M
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SOMERSET ACADEMY TEXAS$250,000
50 CAN INC$250,000
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $600k → 11%SAN ANTONIO PREPARATORY INC: $250k → 16%HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $500k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $300k → 27%50 CAN INC: $250k → 14%HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $250k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $240k → 27%50 CAN INC: $250k → 14%NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 16%NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 16%VALOR TEXAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $550k → 10%LEARNING SCHOOLS OF TEXAS: $684k → 16%COMPASS ROSE ACADEMY: $300k → 16%CHOOSE TO SUCCEED: $280k → 16%CHOOSE TO SUCCEED: $250k → 16%SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 16%SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 16%SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $200k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA - TEXAS: $655k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA - TEXAS: $450k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA - TEXAS: $420k → 16%PROMESA ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $200k → 16%ROYAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.3M → 16%COMPASS ROSE ACADEMY: $550k → 16%COMPASS ROSE ACADEMY: $500k → 16%COMPASS ROSE ACADEMY: $300k → 16%SOMERSET ACADEMY TEXAS: $250k → 16%PRELUDE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $500k → 16%ESSENCE PREPARATORY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $700k → 16%ESSENCE PREPARATORY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $309k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA - TEXAS: $300k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA TEXAS: $995k → 16%BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $955k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA TEXAS: $875k → 16%BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $710k → 16%BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $680k → 16%GREAT HEARTS AMERICA TEXAS: $600k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $550k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $500k → 16%SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $500k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $400k → 16%BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $350k → 16%BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $350k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $260k → 16%BTX SCHOOLS INC: $700k → 16%SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $550k → 16%THE GATHERING PLACE: $270k → 16%SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: $250k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 26 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against +96% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
18

Total granted

$21M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+146%
+96%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GH
    Great Hearts America-Texas
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +525%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +257%
  • CR
    COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue ×75 · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue +43%
  • VT
    Valor Texas Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue +94%
  • SO
    SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +276%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Royal School System

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.

Education
2
Southwest Winners Foundation Inc

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.

Education
3
The Best School

Open a group of charter schools in Tarrant County, Texas that is the leader in state academic performance.

Education
4
The Fay School

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,…

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5
Bosque School

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.

Education
6
Chaparral Star Academy

The Chaparral Star Academy DBA Star Charter School provides instruction with the students' individual needs as the primary consideration.

Education
7
Discovery School of San Antonio

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…

Education
8
St John's School

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…

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9
Heritage Academy Charter Schools Inc

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…

Education
10
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
11
Illumination Education Inc

Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.

Education
12
Katherine Anne Porter School

Nonprofit school chartered in the state of texas and monitored by the texas education agency.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Basis Texas Charter Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDEA Public Schools: $2,250,000 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $1,775,000 · EducationCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INCBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,760,000 · EducationBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCRIVERWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,550,000 · EducationRIVERWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $750,000 · EducationHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLSBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $600,000 · EducationValor Texas Education Foundation: $550,000 · EducationNEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 · EducationSCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXAS: $500,000 · Education50CAN INC: $500,000 · Education+11 more: $1,801,000 · Education+11 moreROYAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,250,000 · OtherROYAL PUBLIC SCHOOLSBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,985,000 · OtherBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLSESSENCE PREPARATORY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $1,009,000 · OtherESSENCE PREPARATORY PUBLIC SCHOOLLEARNING SCHOOLS OF TEXAS: $708,771 · OtherLEARNING SCHOOLS OF TEXASPRELUDE PREPATORY SCHOOL: $700,000 · OtherPRELUDE PREPATORY SCHOOL+18 more: $1,070,700 · Other+18 moreGreat Hearts America-Texas: $4,395,000 · EnvironmentGreat Hearts Americ…CHOOSE TO SUCCEED INC: $1,031,195 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · ReligionTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$12,536,000Other$7,723,471Environment$4,395,000Philanthropy$1,051,195Religion$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreat Hearts America-Texas: $4,395,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $2,250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $1,775,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,760,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetRIVERWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,550,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHOOSE TO SUCCEED INC: $1,031,195 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $750,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING SCHOOLS OF TEXAS: $708,771 over 2y, 27% of budgetBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetValor Texas Education Foundation: $550,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXAS: $500,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budget50CAN INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL: $350,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPROMESA ACADEMY INC: $345,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS: $330,000 over 6y, 60% of budgetTGP Public Schools: $320,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $201,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetESSENCE PREP INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP SAN ANTONIO INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFuturo Education San Antonio: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThomas B Fordham Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds 50CAN 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 SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds QUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT ↗

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.

The Ewing Halsell Fou…San Antonio Area Foun…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…50can IncWalton Family Foundat…Texas Charter Schools…San Antonio Area Foun…Communities Foundatio…Choose to Succeed IncCity FundSan Antonio Food BankThe Brown Foundation …
The Ewing Halsell FoundationTX36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George W Brackenridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George W Brackenridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to George W Brackenridge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to George W Brackenridge Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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