Funding search · literacy · Texas
Who funds literacy work in Texas
15 funders have a record of paying for literacy work by Texas recipients: 86 grants totaling $3.3M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation ($607,400), Proliteracy Worldwide ($90,015) and United Way of Southern ($148,020).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Texas recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy FoundationHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $607,400 · through 2024Largest: $275,000 to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — to provide uh cougar literacy program for fifth & third ward schools.
Proliteracy WorldwideSyracuse, NYCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $90,015 · through 2024Largest: $9,375 to YSLETA ISD-COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — literacy programs
United Way of SouthernBrownsville, TXCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $148,020 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to GARRIGA ELEMENTARY — reading intervention for struggling readers
Largest: $95,000 to VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — 2024-2025 family literacy program
Largest: $50,000 to Reading Partners — funding to support literacy programming in dallas and fort worth schools.
Largest: $250,000 to LITERACY FIRST (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN) — provides literacy programs for at-risk children - strategic plan support
Largest: $20,000 to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — grant supports the aspire family literacy program which offers early childhood literacy adult and parenting education to low income families.
United Way of Tarrant CountyFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $275,552 · through 2022Largest: $91,832 to COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER — provides adult literacy programs and emergency hunger relief.
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South TexasSan Antonio, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $560,370 · through 2024Largest: $315,000 to Project Transformation — children's literacy program & donation
Houston Junior ForumHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $36,000 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to Making It Better dba Literacy Now — reading intervention program supplies & materials
Nbh Charitable FoundationGreenwood Village, CO
4 matching grants · $35,000 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS — provide work readiness entrepreneurship and financial literacy programs to youth
Largest: $4,000 to OAK HILL ACADEMY — reading intervention for dallas children with cognitive/neuological disabilities
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