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Educationquest Foundation Inc

Improve access to higher education in nebraska.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$720k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
  • $250k+1 grant · $720k
$28,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$720,300
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$126,300
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$103,700
BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY$77,200
WAYNE STATE COLLEGE$69,300
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$61,700
NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$51,300
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$45,700
NEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE$32,100
CHADRON STATE COLLEGE$29,800
DOANE UNIVERSITY$28,900
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$28,500
PERU STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$27,400
MIDLAND UNIVERSITY$24,600
CLARKSON COLLEGE$21,300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $81k → 6%DOANE COLLEGE: $44k → 9%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $52k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $70k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $79k → 6%DOANE COLLEGE: $43k → 9%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $52k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $69k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $77k → 6%DOANE COLLEGE: $43k → 9%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $67k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 6%DOANE UNIVERSITY: $41k → 9%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $49k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $64k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 6%DOANE UNIVERSITY: $39k → 9%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $47k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $58k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 6%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $46k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $58k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 6%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $43k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $58k → 13%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 6%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $41k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $58k → 13%WAYNE STATE COLLEGE: $57k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $726k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $721k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $720k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $714k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $699k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $686k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $652k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $631k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $602k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $153k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $141k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $132k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $123k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $118k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $111k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $108k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $104k → 13%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $104k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 23 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -100% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
1

Total granted

$14M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-100%

Still filing today

87%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +70%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +213%
  • SC
    SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • GU
    GRACE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -100%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Union College

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.

Education
2
Dordt University

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…

Education
3
Midamerica Nazarene University

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…

Education
4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
Cornell College

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…

Education
6
University of Northwestern - St Paul

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.…

Education
7
Briar Cliff University

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
8
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa

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…

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
10
Midwest University

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…

Education
11
LaGrange College

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…

Education
12
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia University; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $6,150,989 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,213,652 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,093,100 · EducationSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONBellevue University: $598,820 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $565,500 · EducationWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $559,000 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $420,100 · Education+9 more: $1,756,600 · Education+9 moreNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $477,700 · OtherNORTHEAST C…NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION: $247,900 · OtherNEBRASKA GA…NEBRASKA METHODIST COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH: $241,300 · OtherNEBRASKA ME…NORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $191,300 · OtherNORTH PLATT…Clarkson College: $189,400 · OtherClarkson Co…+1 more: $5,700 · OtherBryan Medical Center: $156,700 · HealthBACK TO THE BIBLE: $53,500 · Religion
Education$12,357,761Other$1,353,300Health$156,700Religion$53,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Educationquest Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educationquest Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Educationquest Foundation Inc?

    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.

    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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