Texas · Nonprofit
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,541,477 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($3,554,265). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $759k
What The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc does
Mission
Committed to helping families and communities nationwide build brighter futures through literacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc is transferring some of its assets to the george and barbara bush foundation with a portion of the assets transferred in 2025 and the remaining transfer in 2026. The barbara bush foundation's mission and programmatic activities will continue under the george and barbara bush foundation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Building literacy skills
$1,638,540 spentof which $79,700 as grants6% of program spendingBuilding multisector engagement - driving engagement
$459,545 spent2% of program spendingBuilding multisector engagement - raising awareness
$1,128,296 spent4% of program spendingThe Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc is transferring some of its assets to the george and barbara bush foundation with a portion of the assets transferred in 2025 and the remaining transfer in 2026. The barbara bush foundation's mission and programmatic activities will continue under the george and barbara bush foundation. Line 4d - see schedule I for the 2025 transfers to the george and barbara bush foundation.
$22,304,364 spentof which $22,302,787 as grants87% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,530,745.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $26M to $2.5M (−90%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 4% · 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 5% · 2022 11% · 2023 7% · 2024 25% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 34 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.2M.
22 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 48% · 2020 59% · 2021 17% · 2022 57% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
21% of THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC?
- THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC (Texas) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,541,477 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($3,554,265). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $8,541,477 in grants to THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,554,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 102 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing