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DUBUQUE AREA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU

EIN 46-3010125 DUBUQUE, IA

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Revenue 2024
$2,849,005
Expenses 2024
$2,841,308

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S40
Classification
3000
Street
300 MAIN ST STE 120

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque area

  • 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.

    Expenses $2,378,943 · Grants $550,000 · Revenue $2,166,958

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Harley Pothoff

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Wagner

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wendy Runde

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mick Michel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ric Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Van Milligen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Wahlert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Connie Hodge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brad Cavanagh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Keith Rahe

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $262,976
    From this org
    $219,541
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,435
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,541
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,231
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,204
    Filer's total
    $262,976

  • Sara Hanten

    Vice President of Operations

    Total calculated
    $112,264
    From this org
    $98,189
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,075
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Sutter - VP of

    Operations Field of Dreams

    Total calculated
    $146,200
    From this org
    $109,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,200
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,849,005
    Expenses
    $2,841,308
    Contributions
    $657,028
    Grants paid
    $550,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,307,812
    Expenses
    $2,249,732
    Contributions
    $186,668
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,750,544
    Expenses
    $2,143,055
    Contributions
    $139,677
    Grants paid
    $500,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,624,966
    Expenses
    $1,431,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,438,467

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,491,104
    Expenses
    $1,030,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,323,915

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,677,661
    Expenses
    $1,455,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $656,450

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,378,078
    Expenses
    $1,349,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $606,948

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,326,397
    Expenses
    $1,271,639
    Assets (EOY)
    $447,144

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,295,137
    Expenses
    $1,281,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,816

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,259,441
    Expenses
    $1,253,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $391,896

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,222,375
    Expenses
    $1,229,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $392,679

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • Dubuque Regional Airport

    $550,000

    2024 Operational grant

  • This Is Iowa Ballpark Inc

    $500,000

    2022 To fund operations

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.