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The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc

Committed to helping families and communities nationwide build brighter futures through literacy

$22M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$21MPublic Benefit$9.0MFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$57kPhilanthropy$17kArts & Culture$15kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$540k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $21,108,609 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,382,487 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,273,878 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
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
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC: $17k → 16%THE FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC: $10k → 16%LEARNING WORKS: $10k → 7%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
MI
CT
CA
MO
TN
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.
$559k · 13 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$559k
$9.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+38%

Still filing today

38%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & 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

  • BE
    Broward Education Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +102%
  • LT
    Learn Tampa Bay Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +232%
  • FC
    FBH COMMUNITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • XP
    X PRIZE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9.0M · revenue +72% · 32% of their budget
  • 1G
    1776 GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +80%

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.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
4
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
5
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
6
Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School

It is the mission of early childhood academy public charter school to foster the academic and social/emotional growth and development of each student in a safe and holistic learning environment that will equip all students with the…

Education
7
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
8
The Family Place Public Charter School

The mission of the family place public charter school is to improve the literacy and workplace skills of low-income limited english proficient adults in the district so that they and their family are self-sustaining, employable and engaged…

Education
9
The Literacy Project

In each school we partner with a group of six students are taught to read in 30 lessons using a game format. the program is admimistered by a master teacher who focuses on five essential reading components: phonemic awareness, phonics,…

Community Improvement
10
Literacy Lubbock

Literacy lubbock executes and supports programs that enable people to become literate.

Education
11
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
12
Pinellas County Education Foundation Inc

We accelerate academic achievement for all students through the effective mobilization of innovation, relationships, and resources. (continued on schedule o)our work centers around ensuring every student has access and opportunity to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Capital Area Inc 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsUnited Way FederationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION — $21,068,809 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION+8 more — $322,550 · EducationX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC — $9,000,000 · Public BenefitX PRIZE FOUNDATION INCMIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $117,803 · Other1776 GLOBAL INC — $100,000 · OtherLearn Tampa Bay Inc — $65,000 · OtherGRANTS — $54,000 · OtherMISSION CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — $29,050 · OtherPOLK COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD — $27,400 · OtherREGIONAL SCHOOL UNIT #3 ACE — $25,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $22,500 · OtherMIDSOUTH COMMUNITY CENTER SERVICES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING — $20,000 · OtherPASCO COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD — $19,200 · Other+7 more — $60,000 · OtherFBH COMMUNITY INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC — $16,667 · Human ServicesFAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLEARNINGWORKS — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC — $16,500 · PhilanthropyGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $12,375 · Community Improvement
Education$21,391,359Public Benefit$9,000,000Other$539,953Food & Nutrition$60,000Human Services$56,667Philanthropy$16,500Arts & Culture$15,000Community Improvement$12,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC — $9,000,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc — $128,550 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetEmory University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearn Tampa Bay Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFBH COMMUNITY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY MINNESOTA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC — $16,667 over 1y, 23% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $12,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Broward Education Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds Learn Tampa Bay Inc
  • Who funds FBH COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND
  • Who funds Madonna University
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA
  • Who funds ARDMORE FAMILY LITERACY INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INC
  • Who funds BRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
  • Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
  • Who funds FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC
  • Who funds LEARNINGWORKS
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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 StrengthDC21.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Good Sports Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · NRA 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 The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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