· Public charity
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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $165k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA | $1,888,728 |
| KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| GRAND CHESS TOUR | $555,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INC | $512,500 |
| US CHESS FEDERATION | $165,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC CHESS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KCKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +251% · 55% of their budget
- GCGRAND CHESS TOUR8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +123% · 94% of their budget
- ICINTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +132% · 89% of their budget
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The U.S. Chess Center promotes self-confidence, social skills, and academic success for all.
Chess in the schools fosters the intellectual and social development of low-income youth through chess education.
The mission and principal activities of the world chess hall of fame and galleries is to educate visitors, fans, players, and scholars by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the game of chess and its continuing cultural…
We provide all Chicago youth with equitable access to chess education empowering them with essential life skills for success on and off the board.
Building a stronger chess community through education, opportunity, and pathways to excellence.
Providing youth chess lessons on and off the board
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of America Chess Federation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Chess Tour. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CHESS TOUR ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHESS FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PGA REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.