Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC
EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE LANDSBERGER FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Eastern Shore Scholastic Chess Inc does
Mission
Eastern shore scholastic chess, inc. (essc) is a 501(c)(3) with the mission to help public schools and other youth serving organizations outside of the public school system establish federal, local and community supported chess clubs. Current projects are with the accomack county public schools on the eastern shore of virginia and well as local surrounding youth organizations outside of the public school system. The acps and local youth serving organizations have recognized the academic and social benefits of chess to the child, and the consistency of the life-skills learned in chess with both stem and virginia employment readiness skills educational objectives. In areas such as within the acps, distant from other chess programs, both local interscholastic competitions and on-line competitions with schools and individual students from around the world become possible for the first time.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Eastern shore scholastic chess, inc. (essc) provides resources to establish chess clubs in the accomack county public school system and surrounding youth serving organizations on the eastern shore. Essc provides stipends for coaches to use given resources to teach chess by using a consistent curriculum based on the chesskid.com system of incremental mastery of skills, augmented with teaching aids both borrowed from other successful programs and developed internally. The system used makes for a consistent program across schools and the community which is easily learned by coaches and members.
$13,650 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,650.
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.
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 $4k to $13k (+215%).
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.
100% of EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
David Landsberger
Chairman & p
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS 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.
Where its funders are
EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS 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 EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC?
- EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE LANDSBERGER FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC?
- THE LANDSBERGER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN SHORE SCHOLASTIC CHESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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