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CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC

CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,939 to it, the largest being Evanston Community Foundation ($34,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$128k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$237k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Chessmen Club of the North Shore Inc does

Mission

The chessmen club was established in 1958, to provide servie to the evanston and north shore communities. Throughout the last five decades, the chessmen club has grown and matured. The mission of the club has remained the same - service to youth and ederly of the community. Chessmen's activities have ranged from raising monies supporting local youth groups, to providing scholarships and related financial support to deserving college bound youths, presenting civic awars to outstanding citizens and donating food baskets to the families in need and the elderly.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provided college scholarships in varying amounts to fifteen evanston area high school students

    $58,930 spent
    77% of program spending
  2. Provided holiday food baskets to families in need within the evanston area

    $17,475 spentof which $4,450 as grants
    23% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,405.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2018 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 119 ($92k) Net assets 125 ($146k)2019 Revenue 108 ($131k) Expenses 83 ($64k) Net assets 181 ($212k)2024 Revenue 105 ($128k) Expenses 149 ($115k) Net assets 203 ($237k)
2017201820192024
Revenue (105)Expenses (149)Net assets (203)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $146k to $212k (+46%).

$117k
$146k
$212k
$237k
2017201820192024
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$29k
’18
$66k
’19
$13k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $15k → $10k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE 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

CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC.

46%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2022 89% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

25% of CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

72% of CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC'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. Of the $21k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC?
CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,939 to it, the largest being Evanston Community Foundation ($34,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $75,939 in grants to CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC?
Evanston Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $34,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESSMEN CLUB OF THE NORTH SHORE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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