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Lev Experience

Lev Experience (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $379,702 to it, the largest being MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$334k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$380k
Net assets
$62k
17/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Lev Experience does

Mission

To empower individuals to find greater meaning, purpose, and possibilities in life by deepening their connection to Jewish wisdom and values.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Bar/bat mitzvah program: Activities throughout the year for bar/bat mitzvah age kids and their families including sports, outdoor activities, and parties around Jewish holidays as well as individual Torah study sessions, and tailor-made bar/bat mitzvah experiences.

    $134,338 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. Classes: Lev Experience offers a wide range of classes and seminars on many Jewish topics. The classes provide new insights and deeper understandings of Judaism, and offer practical tools to live a better life and grow as a person.

    $134,338 spent
    50% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $268,676.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($176k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2020 Revenue 96 ($189k) Expenses 93 ($165k) Net assets 149 ($74k)2021 Revenue 86 ($168k) Expenses 108 ($191k) Net assets 103 ($52k)2022 Revenue 128 ($253k) Expenses 127 ($224k) Net assets 160 ($80k)2023 Revenue 141 ($277k) Expenses 175 ($309k) Net assets 96 ($48k)2024 Revenue 185 ($365k) Expenses 201 ($354k) Net assets 117 ($58k)2025 Revenue 170 ($334k) Expenses 187 ($330k) Net assets 124 ($62k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (170)Expenses (187)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $80k to $48k (−40%).

$50k
$74k
$52k
$80k
$48k
$58k
$63k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Lev Experience’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’19
$24k
’20
−$23k
’21
$28k
’22
−$32k
’23
$11k
’24
$5k
’25
2.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Shlomo Buxbaum

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed7665
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $13k → $57k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Lev Experience’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Lev Experience leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lev Experience.

43%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 39% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 53% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

75% of Lev Experience's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 94% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

81% of Lev Experience's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

ID
NY
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lev Experience has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Lev Experience

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lev Experience?
Lev Experience (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $379,702 to it, the largest being MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lev Experience have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $379,702 in grants to Lev Experience, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lev Experience?
MAYBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lev Experience find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing