Indiana · Nonprofit
INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC
INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,965 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Indianapolis Chess Club & Scholastic Center Inc does
Mission
Chess education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provision of eight weeks of full-day chess summer camp for kids in 2nd to 8th grades. Each camp occurred from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and served about 20 children.
$26,200 spent20% of program spendingOrganizing of tournaments, including 46 weekly chess nights with an average attendance of 53 people and twelve monthly scholastic tournaments with an average of 50 players.
$23,600 spent18% of program spendingChess instruction before and after school at fifteen participating schools, three of which are designated Title I (high poverty). Each chess club had between 12-20 members. Included organizing school system-wide end-of-year tournament for more than 150 players for Indianapolis Public Schools.
$72,136 spent56% of program spendingMonthly free Girls Workshop called Pawns to Queens for 15 girls to train in chess
$6,000 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,936.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $14k (+269%).
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.
36% of INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER 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
INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC.
“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
100% of INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER 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 INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC?
- INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,965 to it, the largest being THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,965 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC?
- THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS CHESS CLUB & SCHOLASTIC CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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