New York City Chess Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461440154
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2016
Location
New York, NY, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Amateur Sports

Reported finances

Expenses
$1,322
Assets
$1,569

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Propper (President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Propper (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To raise funds to subsidize New York City Chess Inc. chess programs.

What it reported doing in 2020

Subsidized fees to enable students to learn to play chess and life values

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 14
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 37.8%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -30.9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -57.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -73.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $500 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.