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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 FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$21M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,400
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,068,809
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$21M60%
FY20245$60k20%
FY20237$77k43%
FY20225$65k20%
FY20213$21k0%
FY20209$86k33%
FY20194$45k0%
FY20188$126k13%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$31MArts & Culture$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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TN
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$21,068,8091n/a
X Prize Foundation Inc$9,000,000132%
Broward Education Foundation Inc$128,55090%
Miami-Dade County Public Schools$117,8039n/a
1776 Global Inc$100,0001n/a
Emory University$100,00010%
Learn Tampa Bay Inc$65,000220%
Fbh Community Inc$60,00028%
Grants$54,0001n/a
Mission Consolidated Independent School District$29,0505n/a
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The George and Barbara Bush Foundation$21,068,8091n/a
X Prize Foundation Inc$9,000,000132%
Broward Education Foundation Inc$128,55090%
Miami-Dade County Public Schools$117,8039n/a
1776 Global Inc$100,0001n/a
Emory University$100,00010%
Learn Tampa Bay Inc$65,000220%
Fbh Community Inc$60,00028%
Grants$54,0001n/a
Mission Consolidated Independent School District$29,0505n/a
Polk County School Board$27,4005n/a
Regional School Unit #3 Ace$25,0002n/a
New Schools Fund$25,00010%
Curators of the University of Missouri$22,5002n/a
Madonna University$20,00010%
Literacy Minnesota$20,00020%
Grace Place for Children and Families Inc$20,00010%
Midsouth Community Center Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing$20,0001n/a
Pasco County School Board$19,2003n/a
Ardmore Family Literacy Inc$16,667123%
United Way of the Capital Area Inc$16,50021%
Briya Public Charter School$15,00010%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$15,00010%
Collier County Public Schools$14,5002n/a
School District of Lee County$13,5002n/a
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc$12,37510%
Learningworks$10,00010%
Family Literacy Academy at Lake Wales Inc$10,00016%
School District of Hillsborough County$9,1001n/a
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc$7,50010%
The Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools$6,5001n/a
Grand Prairie Independent School District$6,5001n/a
City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation$6,0001n/a
Lorenzo Walker Technical College$5,2001n/a
Bridgeport Public Schools$5,2001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLiteracy Minnesota: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Place for Children and Families Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetLearningworks: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Literacy Academy at Lake Wales Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

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

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.

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About The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc

How much does The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc give?
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $21,108,609, out of $22,382,487 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The George and Barbara Bush Foundation ($21M), X Prize Foundation Inc ($9.0M), Broward Education Foundation Inc ($129k).
Does The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Share Our Strength, Round It Up America Inc, Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
Where is The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc based?
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc is based in TX.

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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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