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CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION

CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,750 to it, the largest being DOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$976k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$970k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Charlotte Chess Center Foundation does

Mission

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

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fundraising for the naroditsky memorial fund.

    $150 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $150.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'26*
total
funders
2

1 of 2 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 CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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

CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4k to it.

Operating margin99% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve2192.7mo · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In North Carolina

North Carolina Tennis Foundation Inc76%The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc76%North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children76%Charlotte Regional Realtor Assoc Housing Opportunity Foundation76%The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation Inc75%National Christian Foundation Raleigh75%Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community75%Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc75%

Nationally

Marshall Chess Foundation Inc79%Kasparov Chess Foundation Inc78%Charlotte Community Foundation Inc76%North Carolina Tennis Foundation Inc76%The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc76%Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St Louis76%Sorsby Foundation76%International Chess School Inc76%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

3% of spending goes to programs.

Program 3%Management 8%Fundraising 89%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION: 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 CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION?
CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,750 to it, the largest being DOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,750 in grants to CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION?
DOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLOTTE CHESS CENTER FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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