· Public charity
Palo Alto Cty Gaming Develop Corp
To operate exclusively for the purposes enumerated in the iowa gaming commission act.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $891k
- $250k+2 grants · $799k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNDER 5000 | $462,789 |
| CITY OF EMMETSBURG | $336,509 |
| EMMETSBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST | $112,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $109,341 |
| RUTHVEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR | $104,580 |
| IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $99,263 |
| PALO ALTO COUNTY HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| CITY OF GRAETTINGER | $73,597 |
| CITY OF WEST BEND | $69,067 |
| FIVE ISLAND TRAIL CORPORATION | $69,000 |
| CITY OF RUTHVEN | $62,763 |
| WEST BEND- MALLARD COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $61,800 |
| RUTHVEN- AYRSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $54,150 |
| RUTHVAN COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $38,766 |
| HORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COU | $32,993 |
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 (FY18–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k 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
- GOGrotto of the Redemption4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +2%
- HUHORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COUNTY INC2× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +32%
- PAPALO ALTO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- EYEMMETSBURG YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSNone grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue -76% · 68% of their budget
- ECEMMETSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -65%
- PLPRAIRIE LAKES AREA EDUCATION AREAone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.
The Corporation is organized for the purpose or purposes of promoting the economic and industrial development of the City of Guttenberg, Iowa and its environs. Such promotion shall include not only the enticement, assistance, and…
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
The promotion of altoona, ia
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
To establish an endowment fund to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Glidden, Iowa
To provide the city of alton, iowa with economic development possibilities ranging from residential, industrial and commercial development. the organization will make available places of residence and work attracting people to the city of…
Cemetery care and maintenance
Economic development
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Provision and Maintenance of a cemetary
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Johns Cemetery Association. 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 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 3% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 50 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
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 Grotto of the Redemption ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ruthven Community Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMMETSBURG YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds UPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAETTINGER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EMMETSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Palo Alto Cty Gaming Develop Corp 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.