Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION
DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocalportfolio match
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moineslocalportfolio match
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 14% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocalportfolio matchIA · funds 116 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moineslocalportfolio matchIA · funds 93 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Sports Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MidAmerican Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Ruan Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central IowalocalIA · funds 148 organizations near you
- Chrysalis FoundationlocalIA · funds 69 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Des Moines Convention & Vistors Bureau Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION?
- DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $140,000 in grants to DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION?
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES AREA SPORTS & TOURISM COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing