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Quest For Excellence Inc

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.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$429kHousing & Shelter$345kEducation$137kYouth Development$25kAnimals$19kFood & Nutrition$5kReligion$550Health$361Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$519k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington Township Schools Foundat$71,700
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Assistance League of Indianapolis$28,000
Indiana Blind Childrens Foundation$25,360
East 10th Children Youth Center$25,000
Paws and Think Inc$10,000
Medical Mutts service Dogs Inc$9,443
Indigent families food assistance$3,670
American Heart Association$157
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SOAR initiative: $630 → 16%SOAR initiative: $20 → 16%Paws and Think Inc: $10k → 16%Indiana Blind Childrens Foundation: $25k → 16%Indiana Blind Childrens Foundation: $25k → 16%Indiana Blind Childrens Foundation: $18k → 16%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 9 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$661k
$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • FH
    FAIR HAVEN INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +196% · 52% of their budget
  • WT
    WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +9%
  • IB
    INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • FH
    FAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $335k · revenue -17%
  • HH
    HORIZON HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • LS
    Little Sisters of the Poor
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
2
Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals
3
Assist Indiana Inc

Assist indiana provides advocacy, specialized services, interventions and support to trauma victims. utilizing proven efforts through trauma informed care approach along with best practices, we eliminate the negative effects of violence in…

Human Services
4
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
5
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter

Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…

Animals
6
Humane Society of Indianapolis

IndyHumane's mission is to improve animal welfare in central Indiana. We are committed to ending the cycle of pet overpopulation, providing affordable pet ownership, and ensuring the well-being, health and safely of all animals in our…

Animals
7
Humane Society for Hamilton County

Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…

Animals
8
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
9
Homeward Animal Shelter Inc

To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.

Animals
10
Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…

Human Services
11
It Takes a Village Canine Rescue Inc

To work as one in helping animals irrespective of breed, location or circumstance, while also supporting the people who love animals.

Animals
12
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Haven Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paws & Think Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIR HAVEN INC: $300,100 · Human ServicesFAIR HAVEN INCINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $67,888 · Human ServicesINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+2 more: $10,650 · Human ServicesFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC: $335,000 · HealthFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $361 · HealthWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $129,966 · EducationWASHINGTON TOW…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $6,683 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $107,800 · OtherIndividual gra…HORIZON HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherHORIZON HOUSE …Little Sisters of the Poor: $10,000 · OtherLittle Sisters…+7 more: $8,054 · Other+7 moreAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $48,000 · Community ImprovementEAST 10TH CHILDREN AND YOUTH CENTERINC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc: $9,443 · Animals
Human Services$378,638Health$335,361Education$136,649Other$135,854Community Improvement$48,000Youth Development$25,000Animals$9,443

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIR HAVEN FOUNDATION INC: $335,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFAIR HAVEN INC: $300,100 over 2y, 52% of budgetWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $129,966 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetINDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $67,888 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $48,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $6,683 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $261 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENNESARET FREE CLINIC INC: $100 over 2y, 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.

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.

Central Indiana Commu…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Indianapolis Foun…Lilly Endowment IncThe Brave Heart Found…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Healthcare Initiative…Hoover Family Foundat…Hamilton County Commu…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Healthcare Initiatives Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Quest For Excellence Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quest For Excellence Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s 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 · 0–75%
    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 Quest For Excellence Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Quest For Excellence 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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