Washington · Nonprofit
LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS
LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,020 to it, the largest being Start It Foundation ($3,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $0
What Living Computer Museum & Labs does
Mission
Living computers museum + labs ("lcm+l") maintains computer systems of historical importance in running order, providing an authentic experience of historical computing.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Lcm+l operates a museum to increase public awareness of the private computer collection and information technology, displayed to encourage future exploration in computer technology. Lcm+l fully restores vintage supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers to a useable format. Lcm+l preserves the original environments of digital documents and contributes fact-based information regarding the construction and behavior of computer systems of all eras. This preservation includes cleaning, archiving and storing of artifacts andartifact documents. Visitors are allowed to experience the computers to understand their use. The computers are accessible by allowing visitors to interact with the programs that made them significant. The computers are interactive so that visitors can write their own basic programs, play vintage computer games like lunar lander and pin ball or experience what it was like to use a teletype. Modern computer. Technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and connected devices are similarly displayed to allow for direct interaction. Lcm+l provides hour-long guided tours to museum visitors of the vintage collection and various…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $771.
From the IRS filings of LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS’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.
Where its funders are
LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- 3151 Rainier LLC · disregarded
- Fund for Art Science and Technology · exempt
- Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum · exempt
- Paul G Allen Family Foundation · exempt
- Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS?
- LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,020 to it, the largest being Start It Foundation ($3,020). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,020 in grants to LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS?
- Start It Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 1 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