Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC
BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,914 to it, the largest being H DONDIS TRUST ($39,770). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $355k
What Boylston Chess Foundation Inc does
Mission
Running chess tournaments and scholastic clinics for education and recreation, and to promote interest in chess.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Running chess tournaments: Expenses include prize money paid to the winners of our tournaments, fees for rating the tournaments paid to the United States Chess Federation, credit card processing fees, and reimbursement for food and travel for volunteers.
$51,271 spent$71,550 earned by the program97% of program spendingProviding space for other chess organizations to run lectures and tournaments.
$0 spent$1,855 earned by the program0% of program spendingEducational lectures and chess clinics: Expenses include fees paid to instructors and food served during events.
$1,755 spent$1,950 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,026.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $329k to $895k (+172%).
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.
22% of BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $35.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83 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
BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 70% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC: 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 BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC?
- BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,914 to it, the largest being H DONDIS TRUST ($39,770). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,914 in grants to BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC?
- H DONDIS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $39,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYLSTON CHESS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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