· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHMITT ISLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $1,594,594 |
| CITY OF DUBUQUE | $1,289,002 |
| DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,000 |
| DBQ AIR | $100,000 |
| DUBUQUE SOCCER ALLIANCE | $45,000 |
| OAS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $45,000 |
| PROSPERITY EASTERN IOWA INC | $40,000 |
| HERITAGE WORKS INC | $40,000 |
| PRESENTATION LANTERN CENTER | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ST MARYS DBA STEEPLE SQUARE | $35,000 |
| DUBUQUE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $35,000 |
| CITY OF MAQUOKETA | $30,000 |
| CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD | $30,000 |
| DUBUQUE MAIN STREET LTD | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $749k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
159 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISCHMITT ISLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $12M · revenue +75%
- DDDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC4× · 2019–2023 · $730k · revenue +57% · 49% of their budget
- DADubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau8× · 2017–2024 · $352k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- DEDyersville Events Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue ×41 · 40% of their budget
- GDGREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -18%
- GWGRANT WOOD MISSISSIPPI RIVER REGION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide fine arts to dubuque county
Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
Fire protection and resuce service
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To improve member newspapers
The jefferson-monroe fire department is a volunteer fire department providing service to two townships in rurual iowa. the majority of the revenue is paid by townships and cities inside of these townships.
Work to improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family
Provide volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 59% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 161 of the 265 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCHMITT ISLAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds Dyersville Events Inc ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE AND JACKSON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment ↗
- Who funds GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE JAYCEES ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DBQ AIR ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds FOUR MOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE AREAS LABOR HARVEST ↗
- Who funds DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Fountain of Youth Program ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALBRECHT ACRES OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds SAINT 4 LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dubuque Racing Association Ltd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.