· Public charity
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc
Pursuant to internal revenue code section 501(c)(4), prairie meadows race track and casino is not organized for profit but is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare and economic development.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $232k
- $10k–50k306 grants · $5.4M
- $50k–250k58 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+14 grants · $22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY IOWA | $11,525,151 |
| CITY OF DES MOINES | $4,953,637 |
| DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC | $750,000 |
| GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $700,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $470,000 |
| GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION | $470,000 |
| DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $379,598 |
| GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP | $350,000 |
| BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| ELLIPSIS | $280,000 |
| IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION DBA EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $250,000 |
| IOWA CONFLUENCE WATER TRAILS | $250,000 |
| ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SOUTHEAST POLK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $240,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
323 repeat relationships: 211 still active in FY2024, 112 since wound down; 94 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; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GDGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +34%
- CFCHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +577%
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- DMDES MOINES AIRPORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $5.0M
- HMHOPE MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue -15%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue -37%
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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How this is measured
423 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. 423 of the 619 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PARK & RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREAT OUTDOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DMACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA CONFLUENCE WATER TRAILS ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANAWIM HOUSING 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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · EMC Insurance Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Ita Group Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Chrysalis Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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