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EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC

EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,305,554 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,305,554). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$14M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Educationquest Foundation Inc does

Mission

Improve access to higher education in nebraska.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarship awards to students attending qualified post-secondary institutions of higher education in the state of nebraska (awarded by formula on an objective, nondiscriminatory basis).

    $1,577,000 spentof which $1,577,000 as grants$712,636 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,577,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($959k) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($8.8M)2018 Revenue 37 ($352k) Expenses 61 ($1.6M) Net assets 99 ($8.7M)2019 Revenue 53 ($508k) Expenses 59 ($1.6M) Net assets 98 ($8.6M)2020 Revenue 12 ($118k) Expenses 60 ($1.6M) Net assets 96 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 56 ($538k) Expenses 60 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($8.8M)2022 Revenue 30 ($289k) Expenses 60 ($1.6M) Net assets 121 ($11M)2023 Revenue 69 ($657k) Expenses 61 ($1.6M) Net assets 109 ($9.6M)2024 Revenue 364 ($3.5M) Expenses 60 ($1.6M) Net assets 136 ($12M)2025 Revenue 388 ($3.7M) Expenses 61 ($1.6M) Net assets 160 ($14M)
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Revenue (388)Expenses (61)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $14M (+18%).

$10M
$10M
$10M
$10M
$10M
$12M
$12M
$12M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.7M
’17
−$1.3M
’18
−$1.1M
’19
−$1.5M
’20
−$1.1M
’21
−$1.3M
’22
−$956k
’23
$1.9M
’24
$2.1M
’25
1.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Elizabeth S Koop

President/CEO

Board chair

Craig Ames

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101312111213131313
Joined·+3+0+0+1+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·01100001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

NE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Foundation for Educational Services Inc · exempt
  • Foundation for Educational Funding II Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC?
EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,305,554 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,305,554). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,305,554 in grants to EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC?
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,305,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDUCATIONQUEST FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing