North Carolina · Nonprofit
ALECS CHESS CLUB
ALECS CHESS CLUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $205 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($205). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $205
- Net assets
- $-63622
What Alecs Chess Club does
Mission
Alecs Chess Club exists to help children reach their highest potential through the game of chess. Through engaging instruction challenging competition and compassionate mentorship students develop essential life skills such as focus resilience and thoughtful decision-making. The organization is especially committed to ensuring that financial circumstances never prevent a child from accessing these opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
I teach in-person group chess lessons at various schools throughout the Charlotte Huntersville Davidson area. I teach approximately 150 students combined from these schools. Primary expenses are vehicle maintenance and prizes.
$500 spent17% of program spendingOnline Chess weekly tournaments.Every Monday and Saturday I run 2-hour rated tournaments. Includes a 20-25 minute class. Approximately 10-15 students attend. Primary expenses are Internet Zoom Prizes and postage for shipping prizes.
$2,000 spent69% of program spendingOnline Chess Private lessons. One-on-one coaching to help children grow more rapidly with individual attention. Approximately 25 students each week. Primary expenses are Internet and Zoom.
$400 spent14% of program spendingPartial and Full Scholarships for Private & Group Lessons and Tournaments.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
5% of ALECS CHESS CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $103 → $29.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALECS CHESS CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ALECS CHESS CLUB's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALECS CHESS CLUB's revenue fell 35% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ALECS CHESS CLUB
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALECS CHESS CLUB: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALECS CHESS CLUB?
- ALECS CHESS CLUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $205 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($205). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALECS CHESS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $205 in grants to ALECS CHESS CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALECS CHESS CLUB?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALECS CHESS CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing