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BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOC

EIN 80-0103166 WATERLOO, IA

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Revenue 2025
$5,707,939
Expenses 2025
$4,563,112

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
S31
Classification
1000
Street
114 E 4TH ST STE 300

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

HELPING THE CEDAR VALLEY PROSPER.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FUND IMPORTANT CAPITAL PROJECTS AND MAKE CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH GRANT AWARDS.

  • BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION (BHCGA) COLLECTS A FIXED PERCENTAGE OF THE CASINO'S REVENUE AND ALLOCATES THE PROCEEDS TO QUALIFIED NON-PROFIT ENTITIES AND GOVERNMENTS PRIMARILY WITHIN BLACK HAWK COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES THROUGH A COMPETITIVE GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE OF IOWA GAMBLING, GAMES AND SPORTS WAGERING REGULATION, BHCGA IS REQUIRED TO DISTRIBUTE A FIXED PERCENT OF THE CASINO'S ADJUSTED GROSS RECEIPTS FOR EDUCATIONAL, CIVIC, PUBLIC, CHARITABLE, PATRIOTIC, OR RELIGIOUS USES. DURING THE YEAR BHCGA APPROVED 34 GRANTS AND PROVIDED GRANTS TO 29 ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $4,218,126 · Grants $4,218,126

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melanie Knipp

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Selvedina Samardzic

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jane Whittlesey

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Huff

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stacey Bentley

    TREASURER ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lekeisha Veasley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Russell Buchanan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Umar Chohan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Oksana Grybovych Hafermann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chiquita Loveless

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Schoon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Ritland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Tyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kingsley Botchway

    DIRECTOR (END 9/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Hanson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,334
    From this org
    $119,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,848
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,707,939
    Expenses
    $4,563,112
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $4,218,126
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,749,778
    Expenses
    $6,413,192
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $6,107,979
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,149,657
    Expenses
    $5,369,058
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $5,092,865
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,392,295
    Expenses
    $3,044,750
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $2,799,261

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
    $5,898,126
    Expenses
    $12,101,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,246,475
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,353,710
    Expenses
    $3,959,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,700,227
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,093,497
    Expenses
    $3,131,843
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,878,579
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,116,011
    Expenses
    $4,915,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,639,501
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,053,065
    Expenses
    $4,585,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,973,089
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,101,734
    Expenses
    $3,807,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,866,154
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,248,087
    Expenses
    $2,682,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,813,323
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,171,794
    Expenses
    $2,938,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,944,864
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,961,683
    Expenses
    $1,839,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,659,992
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,208,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,089,139

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.