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General E R Quesada Educational Foundation at a glance

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General E R Quesada Educational Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$423k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

74% of General E R Quesada Educational Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Maine Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year General E R Quesada Educational Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $423k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
6
’18
6
’20
0
’21
6
’22
6
’23
6
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$875kEnvironment$138k
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Virginia$160,000
University of Maine$50,000
University of Pennsylvania$40,000
University of Maine Climate Research$20,000
Middlebury College$20,000
The Smith College Fund$20,000
College of the Atlantic$20,000
College of the Holy Cross$20,000
Wheaton College$20,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College$20,000
West Marin Scholarship Program$20,000
Island Institute$12,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tufts College: $25k → 8%College of the Holy Cross: $20k → 11%Wheaton College: $20k → 11%The Smith College Fund: $20k → 12%University of Pennsylvania: $40k → 22%West Marin Scholarship Program: $20k → 8%University of Virginia: $160k → 8%Middlebury College: $20k → 9%Maine Community Foundation: $405k → 7%Island Institute: $13k → 11%College of the Atlantic: $20k → 11%University of Maine: $50k → 15%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $20k → 8%College of the Holy Cross: $10k → 11%Wheaton College: $10k → 11%Smith College Alumnae Fund: $10k → 12%University of Pennsylvania: $20k → 22%Inverness Garden Club: $10k → 8%University of Virginia Fund: $115k → 8%Middlebury College: $10k → 9%Maine Community Foundation: $228k → 7%Island Institute: $10k → 11%College of the Atlantic: $10k → 11%University of Maine Climate Change: $45k → 15%Harvard College Fund: $20k → 8%College of the Holy Cross: $10k → 11%Wheaton College: $10k → 11%Smith College Alumnae Fund: $10k → 12%University of Pennsylvania: $10k → 22%West Marin Scholarship Program: $10k → 8%University of Virginia Fund: $110k → 8%Middlebury College: $10k → 9%Maine Community Foundation: $107k → 7%Island Institute: $10k → 11%College of the Atlantic: $10k → 11%University of Maine Climate Research: $20k → 15%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $20k → 8%College of the Holy Cross: $10k → 11%Wheaton College: $10k → 11%Smith College Alumnae Fund: $10k → 12%University of Virginia Fund: $105k → 8%Maine Community Foundation: $100k → 7%University of Maine: $20k → 15%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $20k → 8%University of Virginia Fund: $100k → 8%Maine Community Foundation: $35k → 7%University of Maine: $20k → 15%University of Virginia: $80k → 8%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down. Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+50%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’20’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WHEATON COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +46%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +47%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Maine Climate Change
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
7
Reed Institute

The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
8
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
9
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College; the most unlike its peers is West Marin Scholarship Program. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Virginia Fund: $430,000 · OtherUniversity of Virginia FundUniversity of Virginia: $240,000 · OtherUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of Maine: $130,000 · OtherUniversity of MaineCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $80,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTICThe Smith College Fund: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Maine Climate Change: $45,000 · OtherHarvard College Fund: $40,000 · Other+2 more: $60,000 · Other+2 moreMaine Community Foundation Inc: $874,500 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation IncTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…WHEATON COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $80,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of M…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $80,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF…West Marin Scholarship Program: $80,000 · EducationWest Marin Scholarship Pro…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $70,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…Island Institute: $62,500 · EducationIsland InstituteTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$1,075,000Philanthropy$874,500Education$597,500

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 budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $874,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWest Marin Scholarship Program: $80,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $62,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds West Marin Scholarship Program ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization General E R Quesada Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from General E R Quesada Educational Foundation. 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 →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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 General E R Quesada Educational Foundation?

Find your warmest path to General E R Quesada Educational Foundation 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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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