Chess & Community Inc

Analysis

Chess & Community Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Athens, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Chess & Community Inc reported income of $317k and spending of $280k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $174k to $317k (+82%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Chess & Community Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 67th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include University of Iowa Research Park Corporation ($317k), Jerusalem Lights Inc ($317k) and Eastern Iowa Arts Academy ($317k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $72k against liabilities of $16k, net assets of $56k.