Foundational and Corporate Giving

The Saint Louis Chess Club partners with the community through corporate, foundation and philanthropic individuals to ensure the Scholastic Chess Initiative serves as many students as possible in schools across the St Louis region. Since 2008, the Saint Louis Chess Club has served over 45,000 students through in-school and after-school chess programs. To learn more about supporting the Scholastic Chess Initiative, please contact us.
Foundational and corporate giving St Louis Chess Club

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS FOR THEIR GENEROSITY AND COMMITMENT.

These partners support the Saint Louis Chess Club and its mission to spread the game and the educational benefits of chess to every child and adult in St Louis and beyond.

Founder’s Square $15,000+

Ascension

Bayer Fund

Edward Jones

Emerson Charitable Trust

Mysun Foundation

Pettus Foundation

The Slay Committee

Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield

UMB Bank

Welltok

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Grandmaster’s Square $5,000+

Advertising Savants

Albrecht Family Foundation

Arcturis

Viswanathan Anand

Bellwether Foundation

Bhavik Patel

Beth and Doug Eckert

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Caperion, Inc.

Charles and June Gallagher

Chi Chi, LLC

Cohen Architectural Woodworking

Explore St. Louis

Express Scripts

Everyday Health Media

Rick and Susan (Kelly) Gilbert

Roseanne and Robert Henkel

Sanjay Jain

Kasparov Chess Foundation

Kent Family Foundation

Laura and Mike Lueken

Maritz Inc

Mike Matheny

National Cable Communications

The Ragone Family

Rainford & Associates

Jill and Mark Rawlins

Joe Reinmann

R.G. Ross Construction Company, Inc.

Saint Louis University

Shane Sedate

Randy & Laura Sinquefield

Peggy and Pat Sly

Spire Inc.

Staples

Stericycle

Switch

Anthony R. Tersigni

UMSL DBA

U.S. Bank Foundation

Weber Shandwick

Wells Fargo Bank

World Wide Technology

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Kings & Queens Square $2,500+

Atlas Strategy Group

Barrett Barrera Projects

Elizabeth and James Beckmann

Blueprint4Summer Youth Education Fund

Brown Smith Wallace

Lou and Santina Caruana

The Chase Park Plaza

a Royal Sonesta Hotel

Chi-Chi, LLC

Dr. Mun Choi

Color Art

John Doyle

First Rule

Juan Carlos Garcia, M.D. & Jane Cridland

Tiya Lim

Megh Manseta

Plancorp

Allen Priest

Project Lead the Way

Sotel Systems

Stephanie Martin

St. Louis Police Foundation

United States Chess Federation

University of Missouri - Columbia

Andrew Walker

Jill and Dave Wenzel

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Caïssa Square $1,000+

Accenture

Advertisers Printing Co

Sachin Agrawal

Allied Intelligence

Ameren Corporation

GM Maurice Ashley

Beyond Reynosa Foundation

Brad Bauman

Carl Bouckaert

Joy Bray and Jeff Wilson

Josh Hager

Charles Hoffman

Commerce Bancshares Foundation

Downtown STL

Busey Bank

Clayton Valet

Barbara and John Doyle

Lelia and David Farr

FleishmanHillard

Brent Ford

Fuse Advertising

Yevgeny Fundler

Huntleigh Securities Corp.

Husch Blackwell

The Kelley Group

Michael J. Kummer

John Kurusz

Thomas Larson

Charles Lawton

Lawrence Group

Gerry Lewis

Lodging Hospitality Management

Sheila and Peter Manion

Dr. Patricia and Samuel Maryland

Sue and Lee Metcalf

GM David Navara

Niebling Auto Repair

Jean and Steve Nystrom

Oaktree

Andy Oberman

Kei Pang

Bradley Partridge

Drs. Fran and Fred Pestello

Michael Prather

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Win Reed

Mary Reichert

Haruko Senseney

Jennifer Shahade

Julie and Steve Sherwood

Anuj Singhal

Lauren Stewart

Restonic Houston

Sports Classic, Inc.

St. Louis Philanthropic Organization, Inc.

Julie and Andy Thome

Veritas

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Chess Patrons

GM Jacob Aagaard

Suzanne Archer

Nancy and Angelo Arzano

Serdar & Missy Aykent

Shannon and Bradley Bailey

Mark D. Barner

David Cade

Paul & Elissa Cahn Fund

Constance Cameron

Mark and Vivian Darrell

David Dankmyer

Bob Dunn

Leslie and Gregg Eilers

Michael C. Ellis

Greg Erekson

Thomas Eyssell

Brian Flowers

Rosalia and James Ford

Anthony Francis

Jacqueline and Steve Gilmore

Steven and Heather Graham

Diane Greble

Chris Goodson

Josh and Sarah Hager

Ken Haupt

Ann and Jim Hendrich

Linsey and Scott Highmark

Hill Investments

Tracee and Bob Holmes

Cabanne Howard

Kaleidoscope Management Group

Maureen and Michael Keating

Alex and Maria Kerford

Lotis Key

Rick Kissel

Mayor Lyda Krewson and Mike Owens

Tammy and Kyutae Lee

Lewis Rice, LLC

Pat and Tom Long

Robert Lorfink

David Markman

Ken and Joshua Mask

Dr. Art and Belinda McCoy

Sharon and Rich McClure

John McDermott

Carol Meyer

Gary Mindel

Matthew Minder

Eric Mousel

Don Mueth

Abigail Niebling

Notion, LLC

Courtney Noto

Traci O'Bryan

Tim O’Leary

Crystal and Steve O’Loughlin

Ken and Heidi Olliff

Laura and Brad Partridge

Maurice Perry

Sharon and Michael Pfefferkorn

John Pirolo

Dr. Mike Podgursky & Cheryl Thomas

Paul J. Posey Jr.

Joan and Allen Priest

Mike and Kathy Ratliff

Reby Family Fund

Kim Richardson

Claudia Riley

Dot and Jim Ritts

Jennifer Roberts

Nancy J. Rogers Trust

Fred Rohlfing

Nelly and Sean Rose

Shaker Sadasivam

Mauricio Sanchez

Albert Sanders

Susan Sauer

Tom Schafbuch

Dr. Lauren Schwarz

Jason Skinner

Francis G. Slay

Johnny Smith

Stephen Family Charitable Trust

A Donor Advised Fund of The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust

Mary and Tom Stillman

Aaron Straub

Rich Sullivan

Melissa Swank

Jean and Mike Szerzinski

Senator Jim and Brenda Talent

Kathy and Tim Thompson

Mary Ellen Unnerstall

Susanne Franza Valdez

Julie and Peter Villhard

Jiejia Wang

John Weber

Lisa Wentzel

Leith Weston

Work Front

Mark Wrighton

Chris Young

Sharon and Dick Zitzmann

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Thank You

Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to enrich our community through chess education, cultural exhibitions, and inspiring programs that bring the game to life.