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Black Hawk County Gaming Association at a glance

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Black Hawk County Gaming Association

Helping the cedar valley prosper.

$4.2M
Granted FY2026still arriving
25
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$14MCommunity Improvement$8.6MHousing & Shelter$4.1MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$984kPublic Safety & Disaster$821kOther$0
02FY2026 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $700k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.7M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATERLOO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$3,428,958
HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
WATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND$300,000
GROUT MUSEUM INC$200,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CEDAR VALLEY$100,000
ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$100,000
PEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC$100,000
EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC (EPI)$50,000
CITY OF SUMNER$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE WATERLOO PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
LINK CCD$50,000
CITY OF ELK RUN HEIGHTS$35,000
SUMNER DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER INC$25,000
CITY OF LA PORTE CITY$25,000
CLARKSVILLE FOOD PANTRY INC$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $62k → 9%KADENS KLOSET: $5k → 10%JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $69k → 17%ETHNIC MINORITIES OF BURMA ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 17%BLACK HAWK COUNTY FAMILY TREATMENT CENTER: $5k → 17%EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC (EPI): $50k → 17%LOVE INC: $10k → 17%CEDAR VALLEY ANGELS: $5k → 17%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Black Hawk County Gaming Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Black Hawk County Gaming Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 52 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2026, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
74

Total granted

$38M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+2%

Still filing today

60%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IH
    IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +292% · 42% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +43%
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • EH
    ELEVATE HOUSING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +18%
  • CV
    CEDAR VALLEY KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +32%
  • CF
    CEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -29% · 39% of their budget
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
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
2
Community Foundation for Western Iowa

The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.

Philanthropy
3
Waterloo Community Foundation

Provide a lean, straightforward, and transparent conduit vehicle to those who wish to contribute resources for the betterment of the greater waterloo, iowa community and its citizens.

Philanthropy
4
Iowa Chapter of Children's Advocacy Centers

To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.

Crime & Legal
5
Iowa Center for Children's Justice

ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.

Civil Rights
6
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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7
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center

To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.

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8
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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9
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
10
Washington Economic Development Group

Coordinate area economic development

Community Improvement
11
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Iowa City Downtown Self Supported Municipal Improvement District

Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; the most unlike its peers is Waverly Public Library Founation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 138 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/96
Grantees still filing
54/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF WATERLOO - WATERLOO LEISURE SERVICES: $10,021,310 · OtherCITY OF WATERLOO - WATERLOO LEISURE SERVICESCITY OF CEDAR FALLS: $3,768,012 · OtherCITY OF CEDAR FALLSCITY OF LA PORTE CITY: $795,850 · Other+105 more: $6,439,518 · Other+105 moreWATERLOO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $9,150,733 · Community ImprovementWATERLOO DEVELOPMENT CORP…+2 more: $109,000 · Community ImprovementHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN: $2,500,000 · EducationHAWKEYE COMM…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,301,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…CEDAR VALLEY KIDS: $300,000 · EducationCEDAR VALLEY…+9 more: $313,443 · Education+9 moreIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,055,426 · Housing & ShelterIOWA HEART…WATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND: $483,500 · Housing & ShelterWATERLOO H…ELEVATE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterELEVATE HO…+2 more: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $1,060,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF NCC CHARITABLE TRUST: $75,000 · Food & NutritionGROUT MUSEUM INC: $469,600 · Arts & CultureCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $184,700 · Arts & CultureYouth Art Team: $135,000 · Arts & CulturePEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $600,000 · HealthALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $100,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $30,000 · Health
Other$21,024,690Community Improvement$9,259,733Education$4,414,443Housing & Shelter$3,911,926Food & Nutrition$1,135,000Arts & Culture$789,300Health$780,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATERLOO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $9,150,733 over 10y, 61% of budgetIOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,055,426 over 5y, 42% of budgetHAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN: $2,500,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,301,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $1,060,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $600,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND: $483,500 over 7y, 37% of budgetGROUT MUSEUM INC: $469,600 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $441,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetELEVATE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetHW GROUT TRUST: $230,935 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE FAMILY YMCA OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY: $230,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $227,927 over 4y, 10% of budgetCEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $184,700 over 1y, 64% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Art Team: $135,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $110,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS: $105,000 over 4y, 16% of budget247 BLAC: $104,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetJESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $91,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTH END CULTURAL CENTER INC: $68,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $61,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $60,568 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY: $60,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetONE CITY UNITED: $59,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION: $55,277 over 1y, 36% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRiverview Center Inc: $33,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLAWLER FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetTRY PIE: $26,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetJOB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAMANI COMMUNITY SERVICE: $24,352 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY SOCCER CLUB: $24,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST IOWA: $20,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY MAKERS INC: $17,273 over 2y, 16% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER: $14,250 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUCCESSLINK INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $11,313 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAER HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE CEDAR VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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 WATERLOO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO HOUSING TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds GROUT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HW GROUT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY YMCA OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR FALLS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WATERLOO PUBLIC LIBR ↗
  • Who funds Youth Art Team ↗
  • Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds 247 BLAC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SILOS & SMOKESTACKS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY BROADCASTING INC ↗

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.

Otto Schoitz Foundati…Max and Helen Guernse…Lsb FoundationCedar Valley United W…The Gallagher Family …Trustage Foundation I…R J McElroy TrustDuroe Family Foundati…Van G Miller Family C…GreenState Credit Uni…Delta Dental of Iowa …Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…
Otto Schoitz FoundationIA102× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Schoitz Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Cedar Valley United Way · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · R J McElroy Trust · Duroe Family Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer 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 Black Hawk County Gaming Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Hawk County Gaming Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 138 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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