· Public charity
Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc
Washington county riverboat foundation is the non-profit license holder for the riverside casino and golf resort.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of WASHINGTON COUNTY RIVERBOAT FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF WASHINGTON | $661,794 |
| HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $432,359 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $334,032 |
| CITY OF KALONA | $254,300 |
| CITY OF WASHINGTON | $247,815 |
| CITY OF KALONA | $230,858 |
| YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $218,123 |
| KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $149,729 |
| CITY OF WELLMAN | $135,437 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $121,000 |
| RICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION | $97,758 |
| CITY OF RIVERSIDE | $89,993 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON IOWA6× · 2019–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +41% · 56% of their budget
- KHKALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2025 · $726k · revenue +124% · 49% of their budget
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $612k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- WIWASHINGTON IOWA BETTERMENT FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -79% · 89% of their budget
- COCITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2023 · $820k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500k
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.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
To provide the highest quality leadership in support of iowa's water and wastewater industries through the provision of technical assistance, training, education, legislative, regulatory and public affairs, and assistance in economic…
To improve member newspapers
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The community foundation for western iowa is dedicated to creating a lasting legacy in our region by engaging our citizens and communities for durable change and fostering a culture of philanthropy. this is where giving grows.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration
Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.
Fire protection and resuce service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is English River Outfitters Resort. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 176 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON IOWA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON IOWA BETTERMENT FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AINSWORTH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AS ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KALONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WELLMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Frank & Ina Brinton Educational & Charitable · The Fountain Charitable Foundation
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 Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc 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.