Missouri · Nonprofit
GRAND CHESS TOUR
GRAND CHESS TOUR (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,660,000 to it, the largest being CHESS CLUB AND SCHOLASTIC CENTER OF ST LOUIS ($3,660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $750k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $32k
What Grand Chess Tour does
Mission
See schedule o.the Grand Chess Tour is a circuit of international chess tournaments and events, each demonstrating the highest level of organization for the world's best chess players. The Grand Chess Tour's mission is to foster national and international amateur competition in the sport of chess, to promote the educational value of the game of chess, and to popularize the game of chess around the world.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
The Grand Chess Tour's (gct) mission is to promote the educational benefits of chess and popularize the game of chess around the world. Gct organizes a series of international chess tournaments throughout the year and across the globe to promote the educational value of the game of chess. Players are selected as full gct participants based on the top finishers in the prior year, by average prior year rating, and by the gct advisory board as tour wild-cards. Tour participants played both classic events and rapid and blitz chess events. The 2024 Grand Chess Tour featured two classical and three rapid & blitz events.
$516,625 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $726k to $170k (−77%).
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.
89% of GRAND CHESS TOUR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Michael Khodarkovsky
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $350k.
From the IRS filings of GRAND CHESS TOUR’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
100% of GRAND CHESS TOUR's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
GRAND CHESS TOUR has grown faster than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GRAND CHESS TOUR
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND CHESS TOUR: 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 GRAND CHESS TOUR?
- GRAND CHESS TOUR (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,660,000 to it, the largest being CHESS CLUB AND SCHOLASTIC CENTER OF ST LOUIS ($3,660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND CHESS TOUR have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,660,000 in grants to GRAND CHESS TOUR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND CHESS TOUR?
- CHESS CLUB AND SCHOLASTIC CENTER OF ST LOUIS is the largest funder on record, with $3,660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND CHESS TOUR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 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