Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC
KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,679,261 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($2,386,792). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Knowledge Quest Inc does
Mission
To vigorously equip youth and their families to maximize their potential through education, wellness and economic mobility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Green leaf learning farm (gllf) is knowledge quest's usda certified organic urban micro-farm and community wellness initiative focused on improving healthy food access, nutrition, environmental education, and neighborhood health outcomes in south memphis.
$486,257 spent$266,567 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe family stability centers (fsc) serve as the anchoring service of knowledge quest's h20 methodology, providing family coaching, case management, workforce supports, therapeutic services, and coordinated referrals designed to increase household stabiity and long-term economic mobility for families in south memphis.
$1,344,473 spent$1,966,815 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe extended learning academies (ela) provide year-round afterschool and summer enrichment programming focused on academic achievement, social emotional learning, wellness, and career readiness for pk-12 students in south memphis.
$1,416,057 spent$1,209,544 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe early childhood academy (eca) provides high-quality early childhood education and school readiness programming that supports both healthy child development and parental workforce participation through non-fee based, high-quality childcare srvices for families in south memphis.
$480,919 spent$356,167 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,727,706.
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.
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 $4.2M to $5.6M (+32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 20% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 42% · 2022 17% · 2023 24% · 2024 41% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Marlon Foster
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Tim Haberberger
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $698k → $1.2M.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KNOWLEDGE QUEST 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.
How concentrated its funding is
KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 30% · 2021 38% · 2022 55% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $334k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$334k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KNOWLEDGE QUEST 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC?
- KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,679,261 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($2,386,792). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $8,679,261 in grants to KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $2,386,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 29 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