· Public charity
Palo Alto Cty Gaming Develop Corp
To operate exclusively for the purposes enumerated in the iowa gaming commission act.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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Cemetery care and maintenance
Economic development
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Provision and Maintenance of a cemetary
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Palo Alto Cty Gaming Develop Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palo Alto Cty Gaming Develop Corp. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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