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WORLD CHESS MUSEUM INC

EIN 27-1280023 SAINT LOUIS, MO

Revenue 2024
$3,465,278
Expenses 2024
$3,849,026

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A11
Classification
1200
Street
4652 MARYLAND AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ANDREW WALKER

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELIA MANION

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • CELESTE VOSSMEYER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • JOHN BECKSTEAD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MARK RAWLINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • JENNIFER SHAHADE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $600
    From this org
    $600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • SHANNON BAILEY

    CHIEF CURATOR

    Total calculated
    $140,537
    From this org
    $126,322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,215
    Hours/week
    40

  • REX SINQUEFIELD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8 + 16 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,465,278
    Expenses
    $3,849,026
    Contributions
    $3,342,458
    Grants paid
    $51,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,958,221
    Expenses
    $3,163,866
    Contributions
    $3,825,368
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,105,084
    Expenses
    $3,286,506
    Contributions
    $2,968,987
    Grants paid
    $8,466

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,330,943
    Expenses
    $2,760,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,017,663

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,628,298
    Expenses
    $2,728,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,624,573

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,496,338
    Expenses
    $3,322,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,526,254

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,138,332
    Expenses
    $3,175,610
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,377,443

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,984,744
    Expenses
    $3,047,140
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,284,388

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Susan Marie Barrett
Mailing address
PO Box 4797St Louis MO 63108
Doing business as
Chess Hall of Fame

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SO.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.