CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC
520 Eighth Avenue 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10018 www.chessintheschools.org

---

Organizations Filed Purposes: Chess in the Schools fosters the intellectual and social development of low-income youth through chess education.

School Program: The Chess in the Schools School Program brings chess with its academic benefits into classrooms and provides after-school chess clubs for students. Chess in the Schools taught chess to 5,383 students in 42 Title I elementary and middle schools. We also organized and ran an after-school chess club in each of the 42 schools, plus ran stand-alone after-school chess clubs in an additional 6 schools.97% of classroom teachers surveyed reported that chess had a meaningful positive impact on their students.91% of classroom teachers surveyed reported that chess improved students analytical and logical reasoning skills.85% of classroom teachers reported that their students applied the lessons of chess beyond the chess board.

College Bound Program:The College Bound Program provides comprehensive college preparatory services to help our students graduate high school on time and attend college. For the 2019-2020 school year, we worked with 100 high school students. 100% of the graduating class graduated on time and 96% of seniors matriculated to college.

Scholastic Tournament Program:The Scholastic Tournament Program offers competitive chess tournaments in New York City. Chess in the Schools ran and organized 25 scholastic tournaments for Kindergarten - 12th grade students. The tournaments were open to all New York City children and the attendance at each tournament ranged from 450 850 participants.

---

---

Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (public 990 form dataset) from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202140539349300224_public.xml