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Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis

To maintain a formal program of chess instruction for students of all ages and levels and to increase the awareness of the educational value of chess.it is the mission of the chess club and scholastic center of saint louis, an educational organization, to maintain a formal program of instruction to teach the game of chess and to promote…

$3.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$512,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,888,728
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$3.8M43%
FY20235$1.7M0%
FY20227$2.1M29%
FY20217$2.1M0%
FY20206$1.9M0%
FY20197$2.3M29%
FY20185$2.1M40%
FY20173$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$16MScience & Tech$942kHuman Services$155kArts & Culture$152kEducation$140kInternational$36kYouth Development$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kasparov Chess Foundation Inc$6,600,000855%
Grand Chess Tour$3,660,000894%
International Chess School Inc$3,177,500889%
University y of the University of Missouri - Columbia$1,888,7281n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri$1,090,0235n/a
United States of America Chess Federation$768,000616%
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis$151,90130%
St Louis University$140,00030%
Save The Children Federation Inc$35,75010%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis$25,00010%
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All grantees of Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kasparov Chess Foundation Inc$6,600,000855%
Grand Chess Tour$3,660,000894%
International Chess School Inc$3,177,500889%
University y of the University of Missouri - Columbia$1,888,7281n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri$1,090,0235n/a
United States of America Chess Federation$768,000616%
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis$151,90130%
St Louis University$140,00030%
Save The Children Federation Inc$35,75010%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis$25,00010%
Gateway Pga Reach Foundation$24,00021%
National Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKasparov Chess Foundation Inc: $6,600,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetGrand Chess Tour: $3,660,000 over 8y, 94% of budgetInternational Chess School Inc: $3,177,500 over 8y, 89% of budgetUnited States of America Chess Federation: $768,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetMunicipal Theatre Association of St Louis: $151,901 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSt Louis University: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $35,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGateway Pga Reach Foundation: $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNational Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis

How much does Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis give?
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis reported 7 grants totaling $3,775,536 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (92%), Science & Tech (5%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kasparov Chess Foundation Inc ($6.6M), Grand Chess Tour ($3.7M), International Chess School Inc ($3.2M).
Does Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis based?
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis is based in MO.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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