Texas · 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)…
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
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
130’17
23’18
8’19
3’20
11’21
44’22
46’23
1’24
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2023
- $799k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 130
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 23
- Total assets, FY2023
- $711M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations The George W Bush Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 46 | $790k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $640k | 66% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $175k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $511k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $937k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.7M | 83% |
| FY2017 | 130 | $1.8M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$5.5MInternational$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.0MSocial Science$78kHealth$40kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$6k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bush Global Health Initiative | $1,266,766 | 2 | 97% |
| Virgin Islands Department of Agriculture | $508,248 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Education Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Little Cypress-Mauriceville Cisd | $270,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donativos Legislativos (Pr Gov) | $202,553 | 1 | n/a |
| Port Aransas Independent School District | $135,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vidor Independent School District | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colegio San Antonio Abad | $104,314 | 1 | n/a |
| Dreyfoos School of the Arts | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pasadena ISD | $82,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 223 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bush Global Health Initiative | $1,266,766 | 2 | 97% |
| Virgin Islands Department of Agriculture | $508,248 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Education Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Little Cypress-Mauriceville Cisd | $270,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donativos Legislativos (Pr Gov) | $202,553 | 1 | n/a |
| Port Aransas Independent School District | $135,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vidor Independent School District | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Colegio San Antonio Abad | $104,314 | 1 | n/a |
| Dreyfoos School of the Arts | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pasadena ISD | $82,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Rand Corporation | $78,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aransas Pass Independent School District | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hardin Jefferson ISD | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Galena Park Independent School District | $67,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Del Valle Isd | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Charleston County School District | $61,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cardinal Newman High School | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yvonne E Milliner Bowsky Elementary School | $59,925 | 1 | n/a |
| Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District | $58,667 | 4 | n/a |
| Richmond Public Schools | $58,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rochester City School District | $54,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hull-Daisetta Elementary School | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lansing Public Schools | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Redwood Adventist Academy | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| True Cross Catholic School | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Isd | $48,334 | 3 | n/a |
| Fort Worth Isd | $48,334 | 3 | n/a |
| Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grants | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Anova Education & Behavior Consultation Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anaheim Elementary School District | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| NYC Department of Education | $39,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Colquitt County Board of Ed | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Albuquerque Public Schools | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cartwright School District | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brownsville Independent School District | $33,667 | 3 | n/a |
| San Antonio Independent School District | $33,334 | 2 | n/a |
| Clark County School District | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Austin Independent School District (Aisd) | $31,667 | 2 | n/a |
| Jefferson Parish Public School System | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Houston Independent Sch Dist | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Prince William Public Schools | $26,665 | 3 | n/a |
| Shelby County Schools | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami-Dade County Public Schools | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Redmond School District | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Beaumont Independent School District | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grants to Teachers | $24,881 | 1 | n/a |
| Waco Isd | $23,334 | 1 | n/a |
| Davenport Community School District | $22,000 | 2 | n/a |
| DC Public Schools | $21,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Ware County School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Little Rock School District | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Three Rivers School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uplift Education | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samuel C Red Elementary Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carson City School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donna Independent School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Channelview Independent School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Escuela Nueva Quebrada Arenas | $19,993 | 1 | n/a |
| Arlington Independent School District | $17,667 | 2 | n/a |
| Irving Independent School District | $17,127 | 2 | n/a |
| Ysleta Independent School District | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Elizabeth High | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Austin Achieve Public Schools Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fort Smith Public Schools | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wicomico County Board of Education | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yakima School District | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Office of Dental ServicesPaterson | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aransas County Isd | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collegiate Academies | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fulton County Schools | $14,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Ms State Board of Education | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The School District of Osceola County Fl | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northside Independent School District | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Consolidated School District of New Britain | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Benito Consolidated Independent School District | $11,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Conroe ISD | $11,667 | 1 | n/a |
| McAllen Isd | $11,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Amarillo Independent School Distric | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reading School District | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Escuela Superior Ocupacional y Tecbica de Yauco | $10,163 | 1 | n/a |
| Lafayette County School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Psis 276 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Muldrow Public School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission Achievement Charter School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humphreys County School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Joseph School District Crayons to Computers | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Beth Yeshurun Day School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles County Office of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birdville Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Charlottesville City Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Bernardino City Unified School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Springfield Public Library | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Somerset County Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kennewick School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bossier Parish School Board | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Albany Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Juan County School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cape Girardeau Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Juan Lagunas Soria School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Bristol | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hamilton City Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lenoir County Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocketship Education Wisconsin Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Oso Isd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Taft Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Buena Vista City Public School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Dauphin Sd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caddo Parish School Board | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Killeen Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Richardson Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edcouch-Else Isd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Crowley Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson-Madison County School System | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lyford Consolidated Independent School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bibb County School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Harvey-Dixmoor School District 147 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Methodist University | $8,595 | 1 | 0% |
| Jc Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Baton Rouge Parish Sd | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Elementary School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Griffin-Spalding County Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minneapolis Public School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chico Unified School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southside Elementary School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Long Beach Unified School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Burke County Public School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bertie County Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Vicente Elementary School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West High School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kannapolis City Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| B&GC of MS Band of Choctaw Indians | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| E L Furr High School (Ms) | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thelma B Johnson Early Learning Ctr | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Henrico County Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Benjamin Banneker High School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marion High School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Falls Independent School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orange Unified School District | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brookwood High School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Educational Opportunity Center | $6,989 | 1 | n/a |
| Tok School Spanish Club | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bsds Inc Brookside Charter School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tucson Unified School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Erie Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Bay Area Public School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Volusia County Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pulaski County Board of Education | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma City Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Janowski Elementary School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jasper School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guadalupe Union School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marysville Joint Unified Sch | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Renew - Reinventing Education | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roma Independent School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| School District of Philadelphia | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clover Park School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hugo Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Elementary School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walnut Bend Elementary School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ferguson-Florissant School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unified School District No 259 Wichita Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Louis Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloomfield Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clayton County Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stockton Unified School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albert H Hill Middle School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denton Isd | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlanta Public Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethlehem Area School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cumberland County Schools | $5,625 | 1 | n/a |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jefferson County Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williamsburg County School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Baltimore Charter School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muncie Community Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Metropolitan School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ramah Navajo School Board Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bingham County Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anderson Community School Corporati | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lodi Unified School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spring Oaks Middle School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marietta City Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Heights Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Toombs County After School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| PTA Kentucky Congress | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orange Township Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orange County Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Branch-Rose City School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Crete-Monee School District 201u | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Connected | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Norfolk Public Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boaz FFA | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Haven Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Martin County School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center School District #58 and #59 | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Andrew Nativity School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birmingham Board of Education | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Education Association of Houston | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hickman Mills C-1school District | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wake County Public Schools | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clinton Elementary School | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| James Madison Middle School | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chatham County Schools | $2,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Edmonds School District | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Marion County School Board | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Harmony Public Schools | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heritage High School | $2,145 | 1 | n/a |
| Orangefield Independent School District | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The George W Bush Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 15.
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.
GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL126.2× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
About The George W Bush Foundation
- How much does The George W Bush Foundation give?
- The George W Bush Foundation reported 47 itemized grants totaling $798,500, out of $1,509,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 130 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The George W Bush Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), International (16%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are The George W Bush Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bush Global Health Initiative ($1.3M), Virgin Islands Department of Agriculture ($508k), Dallas Education Foundation ($500k).
- Does The George W Bush Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The George W Bush Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GenYOUTH Incorporated, Round It Up America Inc, Project Lead the Way Inc.
- Where is The George W Bush Foundation based?
- The George W Bush Foundation is based in TX.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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