· Public charity
The George W Bush Foundation
The following are the purposes for which the corporation is organized as set forth in the certificate of formation: the purposes for which the corporation is organized are (I) to endow a presidential archival depository, as defined by section 2101(1) of title 44 of the united states code annotated, in an amount required by subsection (g)…
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The George W Bush Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Communities Foundation Of Texas Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The George W Bush Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 46 organizations, $799k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $798,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,509,440 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $710,940 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $740k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANSING SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| RIO GRANDE CITY CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $45,000 |
| CARTWRIGHT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 83 | $35,000 |
| SCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA | $30,000 |
| CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| REDMOND SCHOOL DISTRICT 2J | $25,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| ANAHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| DEL VALLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| THREE RIVERS JOSEPHINE COUNTY UNIT JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CARSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| WARE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| BOARD OF EDUCATION CITY SCHOOL CITY OF ROCHESTER | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBUSH GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · 97% of their budget
- DSDreyfoos School of the Arts2× · 2022–2023 · $85k
- PIPasadena ISD2× · 2017–2018 · $82k
Funded once
- VIVIRGIN ISLANDS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREone grant, 2019 · $508k
- DEDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -58%
- LCLITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISDone grant, 2018 · $270k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
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…
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
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…
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.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate Academies and the most unlike its peers is Bush Global Health Initiative. 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 224 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Good Sports Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Justin J Watt Foundation Inc · Save the Music Foundation
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 George W 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.