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Educationquest Foundation Inc

Improve access to higher education in nebraska.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$28,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$720,300
Organizations funded a year
22 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Educationquest Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$1.6M0%
FY202423$1.6M0%
FY202323$1.6M0%
FY202222$1.6M0%
FY202122$1.5M0%
FY202022$1.5M0%
FY201923$1.5M0%
FY201823$1.5M0%
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$12MHealth$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$6,150,98990%
Metropolitan Community College Foundation$1,213,65294%
Southeast Community College Educational Foundation$1,093,10095%
Bellevue University$598,82090%
Central Community College Foundation Inc$565,50092%
Wayne State Foundation$559,00091%
Northeast Community College$477,7009n/a
Nebraska Wesleyan University$420,10090%
Doane University$341,80090%
Peru State College Foundation$268,20092%
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All grantees of Educationquest Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$6,150,98990%
Metropolitan Community College Foundation$1,213,65294%
Southeast Community College Educational Foundation$1,093,10095%
Bellevue University$598,82090%
Central Community College Foundation Inc$565,50092%
Wayne State Foundation$559,00091%
Northeast Community College$477,7009n/a
Nebraska Wesleyan University$420,10090%
Doane University$341,80090%
Peru State College Foundation$268,20092%
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission$247,9009n/a
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health$241,30090%
Midland University$233,00090%
Creighton University$217,90090%
College of Saint Mary$192,90090%
North Platte Community College$191,3009n/a
Clarkson College$189,40090%
Hastings College$172,90090%
Western Nebraska Community College Foundation$161,60092%
Bryan Medical Center$156,70090%
Concordia University$135,30090%
Back to the Bible$53,50090%
York University$33,00060%
Grace University$5,70010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Educationquest Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $6,150,989 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation: $1,213,652 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetSoutheast Community College Educational Foundation: $1,093,100 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetBellevue University: $598,820 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Community College Foundation Inc: $565,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetWayne State Foundation: $559,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetNebraska Wesleyan University: $420,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDoane University: $341,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPeru State College Foundation: $268,200 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health: $241,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMidland University: $233,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $217,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Saint Mary: $192,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetClarkson College: $189,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHastings College: $172,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Nebraska Community College Foundation: $161,600 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetBryan Medical Center: $156,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia University: $135,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBack to the Bible: $53,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYork University: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGrace University: $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 21.

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Nebraska Community Fo…James M Cox FoundationWilliam and Ruth Scot…Cooper FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…Berneice M Hopper Pri…Nebraska Humanities C…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Susan Thompson Bu…Ibm International Fou…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · James M Cox Foundation · William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 · Nebraska Humanities Council · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Ibm International 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.

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Find your warmest path to Educationquest Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Educationquest Foundation Inc

How much does Educationquest Foundation Inc give?
Educationquest Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $1,577,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Educationquest Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Health (0%).
Who are Educationquest Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($6.2M), Metropolitan Community College Foundation ($1.2M), Southeast Community College Educational Foundation ($1.1M).
Does Educationquest Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Educationquest Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Nebraska Community Foundation, James M Cox Foundation.
Where is Educationquest Foundation Inc based?
Educationquest Foundation Inc is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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