· Public charity
Educationquest Foundation Inc
Improve access to higher education in nebraska.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $470k
- $250k+1 grant · $726k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $726,400 |
| METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $107,600 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $103,800 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $75,700 |
| WAYNE STATE COLLEGE | $69,800 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $62,300 |
| NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,900 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $49,400 |
| DOANE UNIVERSITY | $32,100 |
| NEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE | $32,000 |
| PERU STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $29,200 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $28,600 |
| CHADRON STATE COLLEGE | $28,200 |
| MIDLAND UNIVERSITY | $25,800 |
| CLARKSON COLLEGE | $22,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +70%
- MCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +213%
- SCSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $989k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- GUGRACE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Briar cliff university is a community committed to higher education within a liberal arts and catholic perspective. in the franciscan tradition of service, caring and openness to all, briar cliff emphasizes quality education for its…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia University and the most unlike its peers is Hastings College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Peru State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds Clarkson College ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bryan Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRACE UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Educationquest Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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