· 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)…
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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| DEL VALLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| ANAHEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| REDMOND SCHOOL DISTRICT 2J | $25,000 |
| CARSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CHANNELVIEW ISD | $20,000 |
| PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| WARE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| THREE RIVERS JOSEPHINE COUNTY UNIT JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Aveson is committed to helping all of our students grow as scholars and future leaders. teachers, called advisors, collaborate with students to identify the choices that are best for them as citizens and scholars.
Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
This is a public charter school which empowers students to become accountable for their own educational journey. empowering students to choose their curriculum, under supervision, increases their focus and desire to learn.
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…
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…
The board of trustees of hoboken charter school is committed to upholding and advancing the school's mission of fostering the academic, artistic, personal, and civic growth of its students through learner-centered practices grounded in a…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 224 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George W Bush Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George W Bush Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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