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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $165k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
$512,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $25k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 8 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$16M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
-13%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KC
    KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +251% · 55% of their budget
  • GC
    GRAND CHESS TOUR
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +123% · 94% of their budget
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +132% · 89% of their budget

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chess Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Impact Chess Inc
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3
Us Chess Center

The U.S. Chess Center promotes self-confidence, social skills, and academic success for all.

Education
4
Chess-in-the-Schools Inc

Chess in the schools fosters the intellectual and social development of low-income youth through chess education.

Recreation & Sports
5
International Go Club
Education
6
The Susan Polgar Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
World Chess Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Chess Foundation

We provide all Chicago youth with equitable access to chess education empowering them with essential life skills for success on and off the board.

Recreation & Sports
9
Charlotte Chess Center Foundation

Building a stronger chess community through education, opportunity, and pathways to excellence.

Education
10
Chess Through Challenges Inc
Recreation & Sports
11
Right Move Chess Foundation Inc
Human Services
12
Sorsby Foundation

Providing youth chess lessons on and off the board

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of America Chess Federation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC: $6,600,000 · Recreation & SportsKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INCGRAND CHESS TOUR: $3,660,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAND CHESS TOURINTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INC: $3,177,500 · Recreation & SportsINTERNATIONAL CHESS SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA: $1,888,728 · OtherUNIVERSITY Y OF THE…CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $1,090,023 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNI…UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHESS FEDERATION: $768,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $151,901 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationSave The Children Federation Inc: $35,750 · InternationalGATEWAY PGA REACH FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational Scholastic Chess Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$13,437,500Other$2,978,751Human Services$793,000Arts & Culture$151,901Education$140,000International$35,750Youth Development$34,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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