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Dubuque Racing Association Ltd

Operation of a casino gaming facility with profits distributed to the city of dubuque and local nonprofit organizations to lessen the burden of government and promote social welfare.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
51
Grants FY2024
50
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,594,594
Organizations funded a year
7 to 147
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$94M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Dubuque Racing Association Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving51$4.1M20%
FY202350$8.0M20%
FY202273$9.6M26%
FY202153$1.3M8%
FY20207$2.1M14%
FY2019126$1.1M21%
FY2018139$3.6M32%
FY2017147$3.5Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$13MPublic Benefit$11MEducation$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MYouth Development$859kHealth$745kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
IA
IN
CO
VA
TN
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Schmitt Island Development Corporation$11,919,1903n/a
City of Dubuque$10,631,6417n/a
Dubuque Community School District$919,0007n/a
Dubuque Dream Center Inc$730,000449%
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau$352,066810%
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States$269,90075%
Dubuque Community Y$255,00054%
Dyersville Events Inc$250,000140%
Dubuque County Historical Society$220,00052%
Dubuque and Jackson County Habitat for Humanity$203,000245%
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All grantees of Dubuque Racing Association Ltd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Schmitt Island Development Corporation$11,919,1903n/a
City of Dubuque$10,631,6417n/a
Dubuque Community School District$919,0007n/a
Dubuque Dream Center Inc$730,000449%
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau$352,066810%
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States$269,90075%
Dubuque Community Y$255,00054%
Dyersville Events Inc$250,000140%
Dubuque County Historical Society$220,00052%
Dubuque and Jackson County Habitat for Humanity$203,000245%
Hills and Dales Child Development Center$194,90050%
St Mark Youth Enrichment$183,785515%
Holy Family Catholic Schools$180,5007n/a
Greater Dubuque Development Corporation$175,00018%
Crescent Community Health Center$164,90031%
Special Olympics Iowa Inc$150,00071%
Prosperity Eastern Iowa Inc$140,0003n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dubuque$135,60445%
Dubuque Jaycees$130,000645%
Dubuque Museum of Art$127,27867%
Camp Courageous of Iowa$125,00060%
Dubuque Arboretum Association Inc$115,00067%
Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa$113,50050%
Loras College$111,41850%
Dbq Air$100,0001100%
Friends of St Mary's$100,000311%
Four Mounds Foundation$99,37862%
Convivium Urban Farmstead$95,000513%
University of Dubuque$91,53540%
Dubuque Areas Labor Harvest$89,500715%
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra$88,04462%
Finley Health Foundation Inc$86,10061%
Heritage Works Inc$84,000416%
The Uw-Platteville Foundation and Alumni Association Inc$82,50050%
Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc$80,75361%
The Fountain of Youth Program$80,44247%
Camp Albrecht Acres of the Midwest$78,00066%
Saint 4 Life Foundation$75,000352%
Miracle League of Dubuque$74,367534%
Dubuque Arts Council$68,043712%
Dubuque Main Street Ltd$67,500510%
Area Residential Care Inc$67,50040%
Voices Productions$66,500412%
Salvation Army National Corp$65,8604n/a
Dubuque Area Labor-Management Council$65,252513%
City of Maquoketa$65,0003n/a
Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc$65,00050%
Opening Doors$63,50762%
Creative Adventure Lab Inc$62,00044%
The Grand Opera House$60,76262%
Dubuque Soccer Alliance$59,870416%
Presentation Lantern$58,65239%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$55,00040%
America's River Corporation$55,00034%
Dubuque Regional Humane Society$54,50042%
Every Child Every Promise$52,000431%
Grant Wood Mississippi River Region Inc$50,0001n/a
East Central Development Corp$50,00014%
Bell Tower Productions$48,12454%
Legion-Aires Drum and Bugle Corps$48,00051%
St Stephens Foodbank$46,01236%
Cascade Economic Development$46,000535%
Rural Community Food Pantry$45,51559%
Hillcrest Family Services Inc$45,25830%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc$45,00050%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$45,00010%
Oasa Sports Foundation Inc$45,0001n/a
Western Dubuque Ccsd$45,0001n/a
Rising Star Theatre Company$42,00059%
Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce$41,00022%
Multicultural Family Center$40,000215%
Dubuque Chorale Inc$37,987518%
Carnegie-Stout Public Library Found$37,547425%
The Driver Opera House Restoration Inc$35,00033%
Society of St Vincent de Paul$35,00013%
Centralia Peosta Community Fire Department Inc$34,89954%
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc$34,75030%
Dubuque Community Ice and Recreation Inc$32,50021%
Dubuque County Fair Association$32,4903n/a
Veterans Freedom Center Inc$30,13845%
Inspiring Communty Inc$30,00023%
Friends of Jackson Co Conservation$30,000480%
Beckman Catholic High School Dyersville Iowa$30,0004n/a
Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation$30,00041%
Northeast Iowa Council Boy Scouts$29,95541%
American Legion of Iowa Foundation$28,788411%
Tri-State Independent Blind Society Inc$28,00031%
Northeast Iowa School of Music$26,88244%
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival$26,50025%
St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church$26,4053n/a
Mt Pleasant Home$25,00041%
Dubuque Food Pantry$25,000312%
Hospice of Dubuque$25,0003n/a
International Mountain Bicycling Association$25,00020%
Marita Theisen Childcare Center$25,00016%
The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association$24,50330%
American Veterans of Wwii Amvets Department of Ia$23,086416%
Free Enterprise Foundation Inc$22,52845%
Two by Two Campus Inc$22,5003n/a
City of Asbury$22,0003n/a
United Churches of Galena Inc$21,250314%
Belmond Fire Dept Foundation$21,19048%
Andrew Volunteer Firemen Inc$20,583514%
Honor Flight of Dubuque and the Tri States$20,000111%
Dubuque Temple Association Inc$20,000112%
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc$20,00031%
Farley Emergency Medical Services Inc$20,0004n/a
Centrally Rooted Mission Inc$20,00016%
Dyersville Area Foundation for the Future Inc$20,00012%
Dubuque Esport League Inc$20,000243%
Mental Health America of Dubuque County$19,9923n/a
Dubuque Childrens Zoo Boosters$19,8504n/a
Monticello School District$19,5004n/a
Dubuque County Firefighters Assn$18,5613n/a
City of Epworth$17,5003n/a
Sunnycrest Manor Auxiliary$17,5003n/a
Inspiration Stables Inc$17,500214%
Stonehill Franciscan Services$17,45030%
Manasseh House$17,0002n/a
Duride$16,85935%
Fraternal Order of Eagles$16,7023n/a
Riverview Center Inc$16,11031%
Red Basket Project$15,620212%
Jr Dubuque Bass Club Inc$15,5001n/a
Four Oaks Family and Children's Services$15,20230%
Together We Build Inc$15,0001n/a
Bellevue Firefighters Association$15,0003n/a
Dubuque Area Arts Collective$15,0001n/a
Southwest Health Center Inc$15,00020%
City of Preston$15,0001n/a
Friends of Belmont Mound State Park$15,0001n/a
Iowa Legal Aid$14,50030%
Epworth Community Volunteer Firemen$14,3553n/a
Asbury Community Fire Department$14,29031%
East Dubuque High School$14,2003n/a
Bernard Comm Fire Assoc$13,50036%
Village of Benton$12,8284n/a
Castalia Volunteer Firemen Inc$12,5003n/a
Marys Inn$11,5503n/a
Seton Catholic School$11,5003n/a
Bi-County Ambulance Inc$11,50023%
Saint Francis Xavier School Dyersville Iowa$11,5003n/a
Friends of the Bellevue Public Library$11,1924n/a
Fly by Night Productions Inc$11,0461n/a
Wisconsin Badger Camp Inc$11,00031%
Dubuque Trees Forever$11,0001n/a
New Vienna-Luxemburg Community Fire Department$10,50035%
Jamison Museum Association Inc$10,00016%
Community Solutions of Eastern Iowa$10,00011%
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc$10,00010%
Linwood Cemetery Association$10,00013%
The Friends of the Dubuque County Library$10,0002n/a
Shake Rag Alley Inc$10,00012%
Epworth Atheletic Club$10,0001n/a
Dyersville Commercial Club$10,00015%
Galena Area Emergency Medical Service District$10,00022%
Key City Creative Center$10,00017%
Goodwill Industries of Northeast Iowa Inc$9,90030%
Substance Abuse Services Center$9,50030%
Dubuque Montessori School Inc$9,44513%
Dubuque Auxiliary Police Inc$9,3553n/a
Jackson County Historical Society$9,00025%
East Dubuque Volunteer Fire Depart- Ment$9,0003n/a
Dyersville Health Foundation Inc$9,00032%
Operation New View$8,8283n/a
Holy Cross & North Buena Vista Fire Department Inc$7,69634%
Hodan Community Services Inc$7,50030%
Bernard Rescue Unit Incorporated$7,50018%
The Children at Home Program$7,0003n/a
St Raphael Cathedral Church Dubuque Ia$7,0003n/a
The Friends of the James Kennedy Public Library$7,0003n/a
Umbrella Arts$7,0001n/a
Sherrill Fire Protection Association$7,00032%
Worthington Volunteer Fire Dept$6,9103n/a
Browns Hometown Victory Foundation$6,5001n/a
Anamosa Community School Foundation$6,500310%
Vision to Learn$6,50010%
Tri-State Vietnam Veterans Association Inc$6,1952n/a
Lasalle Elementary Schools Holy Cross Ia$6,0003n/a
Lamotte Community Fire Dept$6,00033%
Cuba City School District Foundation Inc$5,9143n/a
Divine Word College$5,5002n/a
Key West Community Fire Department$5,0003n/a
Delhi Volunteer Fire Department & First Responders$5,00012%
Grant County Deputy Sherriffs Association$5,0003n/a
Marine Corps League Inc$5,0002n/a
Farley Volunteer Fire Department$5,00032%
Future Farmers of America Barnesville Mn Alumni As$5,00020%
Hanover Ambulance Inc$5,00035%
Sacred Heart Church Monticello Ia$5,0003n/a
Platteville Library Foundation Inc$5,00033%
Hazel Green Rescue Squad Inc$5,0001n/a
Dubuque County Early Childhood Inc$4,6082n/a
Dubuque Policemens Protective Association$4,6003n/a
St Joseph Catholic Church$4,5003n/a
School District of Potosi$4,5002n/a
Dubuque County EMS Association$4,5003n/a
Kiwanis Club of Dubuque Foundation$4,3261n/a
St Andrew Thomas School$4,0002n/a
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Foundation Inc$4,00020%
Dyersville Farmers Community Fire Depart$4,0003n/a
The East Dubuque Library Foundation$3,9002n/a
Safe Haven of Iowa County$3,50022%
Preston Fire Company$3,5001n/a
Creativity Center & Foundation for the Arts$3,3693n/a
Monticello School Foundation$3,2963n/a
Maquoketa Firefighters Association$3,06735%
Holy Spirit Church Dubuque Iowa$3,0003n/a
Benton Athletic Booster Club$3,0003n/a
Friends of the Mines of Spain$2,9501n/a
Dubuque Girls Independent League$2,89533%
St Donatus Church St Donatus Iowa$2,8503n/a
Family Advocates Inc$2,70710%
Mississippi Walleye Club$2,6003n/a
Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society Inc$2,50020%
Dickeyville Rescue Squad Inc$2,50022%
Potosi Rescue Squad Inc$2,50022%
Grant Regional Health Center Inc$2,50030%
East Dubuque Lions Club Foundation$2,3983n/a
Dubuque County Hockey Association$2,0001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,93030%
Cassville Fire & Rescue Inc$1,5003n/a

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($454k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dubuque Racing Association Ltd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDubuque Dream Center Inc: $730,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetDubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau: $352,066 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetUnited Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States: $269,900 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetDubuque Community Y: $255,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetDyersville Events Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society: $220,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetDubuque and Jackson County Habitat for Humanity: $203,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetHills and Dales Child Development Center: $194,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSt Mark Youth Enrichment: $183,785 over 5y, 15% of budgetGreater Dubuque Development Corporation: $175,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCrescent Community Health Center: $164,900 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics Iowa Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Dubuque: $135,604 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetDubuque Jaycees: $130,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetDubuque Museum of Art: $127,278 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetCamp Courageous of Iowa: $125,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDubuque Arboretum Association Inc: $115,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetClarke University of Dubuque Iowa: $113,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLoras College: $111,418 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDbq Air: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFriends of St Mary's: $100,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFour Mounds Foundation: $99,378 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetConvivium Urban Farmstead: $95,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Dubuque: $91,535 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDubuque Areas Labor Harvest: $89,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetDubuque Symphony Orchestra: $88,044 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFinley Health Foundation Inc: $86,100 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHeritage Works Inc: $84,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Uw-Platteville Foundation and Alumni Association Inc: $82,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc: $80,753 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program: $80,442 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCamp Albrecht Acres of the Midwest: $78,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSaint 4 Life Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetMiracle League of Dubuque: $74,367 over 5y, 34% of budgetDubuque Arts Council: $68,043 over 7y, 12% of budgetDubuque Main Street Ltd: $67,500 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetArea Residential Care Inc: $67,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVoices Productions: $66,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetDubuque Area Labor-Management Council: $65,252 over 5y, 13% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOpening Doors: $63,507 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCreative Adventure Lab Inc: $62,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetThe Grand Opera House: $60,762 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetDubuque Soccer Alliance: $59,870 over 4y, 16% of budgetPresentation Lantern: $58,652 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's River Corporation: $55,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDubuque Regional Humane Society: $54,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 141.

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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.

Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA153.6× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · The Butler Family Foundation · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust

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.

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About Dubuque Racing Association Ltd

How much does Dubuque Racing Association Ltd give?
Dubuque Racing Association Ltd reported 51 grants totaling $3,777,654 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 147 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dubuque Racing Association Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (38%), Public Benefit (31%), Education (6%).
Who are Dubuque Racing Association Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Schmitt Island Development Corporation ($12M), City of Dubuque ($11M), Dubuque Community School District ($919k).
Does Dubuque Racing Association Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dubuque Racing Association Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation, Heartland Charitable Trust.
Where is Dubuque Racing Association Ltd based?
Dubuque Racing Association Ltd is based in IA.

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 265 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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