Pacific Northwest Chess Center

Analysis

Pacific Northwest Chess Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Sammamish, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pacific Northwest Chess Center reported income of $71k and spending of $78k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $115k to $71k (-39%), an average of -39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Pacific Northwest Chess Center sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tarpon Aquatic Club Inc ($71k), Hartford Select Baseball Club Inc ($71k) and American Gaelic Games ($71k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9,840 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $9,840.