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Chess Through Challenges Inc

Chess Through Challenges Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE DERALD H RUTTENBERG FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$37
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Chess Through Challenges Inc does

Program

  1. Seek to learn & grow through social & chess strategy online or in person

    $5,396 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 100 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($798)2023 Revenue 975 ($23k) Expenses 1134 ($21k) Net assets 321 ($3k)2024 Revenue 278 ($7k) Expenses 423 ($8k) Net assets 155 ($1k)2025 Revenue 180 ($4k) Expenses 292 ($5k) Net assets 5 ($37)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (180)Expenses (292)Net assets (5)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $798 to $3k (+221%).

$0
$798
$3k
$1k
$37
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20212022202320242025
Listed31111
Joined·····
No longer listed·····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

From the IRS filings of Chess Through Challenges 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

Chess Through Challenges Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

67% of Chess Through Challenges Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Chess Through Challenges Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Chess Through Challenges Inc

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 New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chess Through Challenges 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 Chess Through Challenges Inc?
Chess Through Challenges Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE DERALD H RUTTENBERG FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chess Through Challenges Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,500 in grants to Chess Through Challenges Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Chess Through Challenges Inc?
THE DERALD H RUTTENBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chess Through Challenges Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 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