Iowa · Nonprofit
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $684k
What Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau does
Mission
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The tourism industry has been recognized as an integral component in the development and continued prosperity of the Dubuque region. Our goal is to continue to enact a multi-faceted marketing approach in the leisure, meetings, group tour, sports, and events markets to keep Dubuque top-of-mind, competitive, and bringing continued impact to the community.
$2,378,943 spentof which $550,000 as grants$2,166,958 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,378,943.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+79%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 7% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 8% · 2024 6% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Keith Rahe
President & CEO
Board chair
Harley Pothoff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $362k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dubuque Racing Association Ltd). These are real filings, and they are not money Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau raised.
From the IRS filings of Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is better cushioned than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau?
- Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
- Who is the largest funder of Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau?
- DYERSVILLE INDUSTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing