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Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp at a glance

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Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp

Distribute conventure income to organizations

$586k
Granted FY2026still arriving
30
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$880kArts & Culture$608kEnvironment$497kPublic Safety & Disaster$473kCommunity Improvement$380kHuman Services$215kEducation$188kHealth$96kOther$0
02FY2026 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k8 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $407k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DR CLIFFORD C SMITH CHILD CARE$70,000
MARQUETTE ACTION CLUB$50,000
LUANA VOL FIRE ASSOCIATION$46,134
GARBER FIRE DEPARTMENT$40,125
CLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP$28,000
FARMERSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,680
ARLINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
CLERMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
MONONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$24,162
MAR-MAC HUMAN POWERED TRAILS$23,273
MOTOR MILL FOUNDATION OF CLAYTON CO$20,000
NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION$20,000
POSTVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$18,118
ST OLAF FIRE DEPARTMENT$17,845
CLAYTON COUNTY FOOD SHELF$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEICAC: $20k → 10%NEICAC: $20k → 10%NEICAC: $15k → 10%NEICAC: $12k → 10%NEICAC: $10k → 10%NEICAC: $10k → 10%SMITH & BULLDOG CHILDCARE CTR: $9k → 12%NE IA COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 12%BERRY TENDER CHILDCARE: $55k → 12%BERRY TENDER CHILDCARE: $25k → 12%GARNAVILLO COMMUNITY DAYCARE: $11k → 12%BERRY TENDER CHILD CARE: $12k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 34 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
37

Total granted

$3.0M
$784k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-3%

Still filing today

32%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $259k · revenue +35% · 26% of their budget
  • MM
    MOTOR MILL FOUNDATION OF CLAYTON COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2026 · $238k · revenue +386% · 66% of their budget
  • NI
    NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP
    7× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MB
    MONONA BUTTERFLY GARDENS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • GE
    Guttenberg Economic & Industrial Development Commi
    one grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0% · 34% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

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2
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Arts & Culture
3
Graettinger Economic Development Council

Engage in, assist and contribute to the support of economical and industrial development of the city of graettinger, iowa, including the assistance, encouragement and preservation of existing businesses and industries

Recreation & Sports
4
Jones County Economic Development

Industry development in County

Community Improvement
5
Keokuk County Fair

To provide a county fair for rural iowa

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6
Fremont County Historical Society

Restoration and display of historical items pertinent to fremont county, iowa

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7
Adams Community Economic Development Corporation

Commuity economic development and industrial development in adams county iowa.

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8
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
9
Blakesburg Historical Preservation Society

To kindle and keep alive an active interest in state and local history through discovery and preservation of historical items of all types

Arts & Culture
10
Antique Preservation Assoc

Operation of the Iowa Aviation Museum

Arts & Culture
11
Cleora Fire Department

Operate rural fire department in cleora oklahoma

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12
Webster County Agricultural Associa

To provide a 4-h county fair.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Conservation and Development for Northeast Iowa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Elgin Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 89 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
10/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLAYTON COUNTY CONSERVATION: $350,992 · OtherCLAYTON COUNTY CONSERVATIONCLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $259,000 · OtherCLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCCITY OF MCGREGOR: $209,242 · OtherCITY OF MCGREGORCITY OF VOLGA: $170,837 · OtherVCTC Inc: $153,424 · OtherLUANA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSN: $135,892 · OtherCITY OF GUTTENBERG: $113,856 · Other+64 more: $1,937,930 · Other+64 moreMOTOR MILL FOUNDATION OF CLAYTON COUNTY: $237,673 · Arts & CultureMCGREGOR-MARQUETTE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $36,248 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUSE PLAYERS: $16,000 · Arts & CultureElgin Historical Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $96,000 · Human ServicesBERRY TENDER CHILDCARE INC: $91,613 · Human ServicesGARNAVILLO COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER: $11,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE BULLDOG CHILDCARE & LEARNING: $8,600 · Human ServicesGuttenberg Economic & Industrial Development Commi: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPOINT VISION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCLAYTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $91,804 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,750 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $35,000 · HealthELGIN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $27,041 · HealthMAR-MAC EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $15,000 · HealthCITY OF PRAIRIE DU CHIEN FIRE ASSOC INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPostville Volunteer Fire Department: $18,118 · Public Safety & DisasterMCGREGOR HOOK & LADDER COMPANY NO 1: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$3,331,173Arts & Culture$299,921Human Services$207,213Community Improvement$150,000Education$104,554Health$77,041Public Safety & Disaster$44,118

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $259,000 over 10y, 26% of budgetMOTOR MILL FOUNDATION OF CLAYTON COUNTY: $237,673 over 5y, 66% of budgetVCTC Inc: $153,424 over 3y, 46% of budgetGuttenberg Economic & Industrial Development Commi: $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $96,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLAYTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $91,804 over 4y, 12% of budgetBERRY TENDER CHILDCARE INC: $91,613 over 3y, 12% of budgetBACKBONE LAKE PROMOTION ASSOCIATION INC: $44,994 over 2y, 21% of budgetMCGREGOR-MARQUETTE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $36,248 over 4y, 26% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $34,023 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEDGEWOOD BOARD OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPM: $21,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetMAR-MAC EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetALLAMAKEE COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,750 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetGARNAVILLO COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER: $11,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FARM & ANTIQUE ASSOC: $10,400 over 1y, 25% of budgetElgin Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLITTLE BULLDOG CHILDCARE & LEARNING: $8,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR NORTHEAST IOWA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDGEWOOD COMMUNITY CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER: $5,600 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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 CLAYTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTOR MILL FOUNDATION OF CLAYTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VCTC Inc ↗
  • Who funds Guttenberg Economic & Industrial Development Commi ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
  • Who funds CLAYTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BERRY TENDER CHILDCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds POINT VISION ↗
  • Who funds BACKBONE LAKE PROMOTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCGREGOR-MARQUETTE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS ↗
  • Who funds ELGIN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 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.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp?

    Find your warmest path to Upper Mississippi Gaming Corp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 89 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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