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· Public charity
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION
Committed to helping families and communities nationwide build brighter futures through literacy
$22M
Granted FY2025
5
Grants
3
Communities
$21M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Education$21MFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$17kArts & Culture$15kOther$275k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
district
2021
education
2022
education
2023
theatereducation
2024
chartereducation
2025
georgeeducation
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $250k+1 grant · $21M
$10,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GEORGE & BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION$21,068,809
- BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$18,200
- THE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI DADE$10,400
- THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE$6,000
- BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS$5,200
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
2%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$345k · 8 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
11
Total granted
$345k
$164k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+57%
Still filing today
38%
45%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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
- BEBROWARD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue -59%
- TSTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI DADE8× · 2018–2025 · $104k
- MCMISSION CONSOLIDATED ISD4× · 2020–2023 · $24k
Funded once
- LTLEARN TAMPA BAYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +100%
- FBFOOD BRINGS HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +1175%
- NSNEW SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Palm Beach Day Academy Inc
Primary education for students pre-k through the eighth grade.
Education
2
Berkwood School
K-8 education using a hands-on development curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.
Education
3
Bronx Charter School
Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…
Education
4
The Language Academy of Sacramento
To prepare k-8th grade students to excel academically in spanish & english.
Education
5
Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc
Private school encompassing a preschool servicing ages 2-5 as well as elementary school grades 1 -5 and middle school grades 6, 7, and 8. state standard curriculum is followed.
Education
6
Level Up Academy
By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.
Education
7
The Berkeley School
A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.
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8
Booker T Washington Academy Inc
Booker T. Washington Academy, Inc. (The "Academy") educates its scholars for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing the cognitive, moral, and social skills of children so they can compete academically and thrive in…
Education
9
Brevard Innovative Charter School Inc
The pk-8 education.
Education
10
The Learning Commnunity Charter School
At the learning community, we believe that literacy empowers each individual to have a voice,assume community responsibility and take social action. we expect leadership at every level. we grow teachers, student leaders, and community…
Education
11
Foundation for New Education
Enhance student achievement and community engagement in support of educational initiatives of miami-dade county public schools.
Education
12
Academy for Positive Learning Inc
The Academy for Positive Learning is a public charter school committed to promote cooperative education with diverse students to inspire lifelong learners.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Briya Public Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$21,252,359Other$274,953Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$16,500Arts & Culture$15,000
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 GEORGE & BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWARD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN TAMPA BAY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BRINGS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY CAPITAL AREA - Jackson Schools ↗
- Who funds BRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
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.
Share Our StrengthDC20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation THE BARBARA BUSH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Broward Education Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEARN TAMPA BAY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +100% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465045258 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LEARN TAMPA BAY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Barbara Bush Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Barbara Bush Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines