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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$31MArts & Culture$15k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $21,108,609, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,382,487 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,273,878 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 13 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
4
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
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
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
7
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
8
Literacy Lubbock

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

Education
9
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
10
Future Leaders Institute Charter School

Our mission is to deliver a rich and rigorous educational experience in order to develop academically high-performing students with the leadership, character, and knowledge to achieve success in high school and beyond by focusing on a…

Education
11
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
12
Advocates for Academic Excellence in Education Inc

The school's mission is to prepare students of high academic achievement to succeed. the school provides student instruction and activity programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Capital Area Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesLEARNINGWORKS: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC: $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 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 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
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 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 LITERACY MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • 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 LEARNINGWORKS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LITERACY ACADEMY AT LAKE WALES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗

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 StrengthRound It Up America I…Dollar General Litera…Project Lead the Way …Project Lead the Way …GenYOUTH IncorporatedSuncoast Credit Union…For Inspiration and R…Good Sports IncI Car Education Found…Publix Super Markets …NRA Foundation Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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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