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Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc at a glance

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Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc

Washington county riverboat foundation is the non-profit license holder for the riverside casino and golf resort.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$662k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$8.1MPublic Benefit$7.1MHuman Services$4.1MArts & Culture$3.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.8MEducation$2.7MHealth$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $461k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
$40,631
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF IOWA: $51k → 14%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $25k → 9%WAYLAND AREA CHILDCARE ORGANIZATION: $10k → 12%BRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $12k → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $9k → 9%RICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION: $98k → 12%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $6k → 9%RICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION: $56k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $49k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN IOWA: $38k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $25k → 9%RICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION: $14k → 12%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $24k → 9%TABLE TO TABLE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES&FOOD BANK: $10k → 15%IOWA MENNONITE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $53k → 15%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY IOWA: $2.0M → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $1.1M → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY IOWA: $1.0M → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $570k → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY IOWA: $500k → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $425k → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $371k → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $300k → 10%YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $218k → 10%WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES: $150k → 10%WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES: $150k → 10%WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES: $150k → 10%WCDC: $50k → 10%WCDC: $31k → 10%WCDC: $13k → 10%WCDC: $8k → 10%WASHINGTON COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $5k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 83%.

Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 61 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
98

Total granted

$27M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+4%

Still filing today

52%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON IOWA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +41% · 56% of their budget
  • KH
    KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $726k · revenue +124% · 49% of their budget
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2025 · $612k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • WI
    WASHINGTON IOWA BETTERMENT FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -79% · 89% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2023 · $820k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
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
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
2
Western Iowa Development Assoc

Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa

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3
Iowa West Foundation
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4
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
5
Iowa Rural Water Association

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…

Public Benefit
6
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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7
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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8
Community Foundation for Western 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.

Philanthropy
9
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
10
Iowa Rural Development Council

Improvement of opportunities in rural iowa through education and facilitating of collaboration

Community Improvement
11
Iowa Historical Foundation

Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.

Arts & Culture
12
Sidney Volunteer Fire & Rescue

Fire protection and resuce service

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 176 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/80
Grantees still filing
49/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF WASHINGTON: $5,309,991 · OtherCITY OF WASHINGTONCITY OF KALONA: $2,756,359 · OtherCITY OF KALONACITY OF WELLMAN: $1,602,804 · OtherCITY OF WELLMANCITY OF WASHINGTON: $820,003 · Other+129 more: $10,562,812 · Other+129 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON IOWA: $6,504,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS…WESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICE…+12 more: $622,160 · Human Services+12 moreWASHINGTON IOWA BETTERMENT FOUNDATI: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $612,159 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $500,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $83,520 · PhilanthropyKALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $725,614 · Arts & CultureTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $95,967 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $88,988 · Arts & CultureFILMSCENE: $40,439 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $38,726 · Arts & CultureAINSWORTH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AS: $337,227 · Public Safety & DisasterKALONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $290,028 · Public Safety & DisasterWELLMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $204,988 · Public Safety & DisasterRIVERSIDE EMERGENCY SERVICES ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $70,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLONE TREE FIRE & RESCUE FOUNDATION INC: $32,340 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $12,500 · Public Safety & DisasterWASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AUTHORITY: $464,340 · Health+1 more: $14,908 · HealthWASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $91,000 · EducationMID PRAIRIE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationKeota Unlimited: $46,000 · EducationWACO COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $31,900 · EducationSOLON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $16,364 · EducationWASHINGTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $12,000 · EducationIOWA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationEASTERN IOWA HONOR FLIGHT: $10,000 · Education
Other$21,051,969Human Services$7,576,160Philanthropy$2,195,679Arts & Culture$989,734Public Safety & Disaster$947,083Health$479,248Education$277,264

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON IOWA: $6,504,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetWASHINGTON IOWA BETTERMENT FOUNDATI: $1,000,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetKALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $725,614 over 6y, 49% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $612,159 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $500,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AUTHORITY: $464,340 over 2y, 31% of budgetWESLEY RETIREMENT SERVICES INC: $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $392,808 over 3y, 20% of budgetAINSWORTH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AS: $337,227 over 3y, 85% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $295,961 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetKALONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $290,028 over 2y, 50% of budgetWELLMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $204,988 over 5y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE DARLING STATE PARK: $197,398 over 5y, 84% of budgetRICHLAND AREA CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION: $167,313 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $137,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC: $110,562 over 3y, 23% of budgetMAIN STREET WASHINGTON: $108,674 over 4y, 29% of budgetWCDC INC: $107,445 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $95,967 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWASHINGTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $91,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $88,988 over 1y, 23% of budgetRIVERSIDE EMERGENCY SERVICES ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetLAKE DARLING YOUTH CENTER INC: $64,469 over 4y, 42% of budgetSAINTS PETER & PAUL CLEAR CREEK HER: $61,937 over 2y, 36% of budgetIOWA MENNONITE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $53,477 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFILMSCENE: $40,439 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $37,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,809 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $27,600 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetIOWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $27,094 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $27,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWASHINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $26,902 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIDWEST OLD SETTLERS & THRESHERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGEHAVEN PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $23,802 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $21,468 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $20,564 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetN-COMPASS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEnglish River Outfitters Resort: $17,675 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDSERVE INC: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $16,364 over 1y, 51% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 6414: $15,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES: $14,908 over 1y, 1.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Rpc Inc Charitable Fo…Community Foundation …Community Fdn of Grea…Hawkeye Area Communit…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Greater Cedar Rapids …The Accel FoundationHills Bank Donor Advi…Frank & Ina Brinton E…The Fountain Charitab…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI39.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 176 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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