California · Nonprofit
CHESS YOGA
CHESS YOGA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,575 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Chess Yoga does
Mission
Our mission is to create and support chess after-school programs and chess competition for students both domestically and abroad while providing chess equipment curriculum and instruction for students who are economically disadvantaged or at-risk. Chess Yoga provides a safe environment for students while promoting Yogic Philosophy to engender a sense of harmony without regards to race gender class or religious affiliation.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Chess Yoga partnered with the NFL Foundation and HELP Consulting to promote racial equity among at-risk youth as a component of our respective summer and after-school programs.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $26.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CHESS YOGA’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 YOGA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHESS YOGA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
CHESS YOGA draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75 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
CHESS YOGA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,546 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,546 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like CHESS YOGA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHESS YOGA: 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 YOGA?
- CHESS YOGA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,575 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESS YOGA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,575 in grants to CHESS YOGA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESS YOGA?
- NFL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESS YOGA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 3 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