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Chess Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $508k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES | $50,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH | $50,000 |
| KING SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| JAY HERITAGE CENTER | $38,000 |
| CITY GROWERS | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID | $35,000 |
| CAPITAL SQUASH INC | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER | $35,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| PAN MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| FOCUS FOR FUTURE | $25,000 |
| GIFFORD LAW CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +10%- TJTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $283k · revenue +57%
- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAIone grant, 2020 · $206k
- UIUP2US INCone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +25%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rye country day school is a coeducational, college preparatory school dedicated to providing students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 with an excellent education using both traditional and innovative approaches. in a nurturing and…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Yarmouth Academy and the most unlike its peers is Focus for a Future Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Ncw Family Foundation Inc · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation · The Dunn Family Foundation · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · The Glickenhaus Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · Synchrony Foundation · The Snyder Family Fund
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 Foundation 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.
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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