Kentucky · Nonprofit
LVL1 INC
LVL1 INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,324 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,324). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Lvl1 Inc does
Mission
LVL1 (pronounced LevelOne) is a Maker Space. We are an all-volunteer organization, organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. We provide a physical shop with tools where people with diverse interests (such as science, technology, digital, mechanical, and electrical art) can meet to socialize and collaborate. We are an open community where people of diverse backgrounds can share knowledge and resources to learn and make things.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We are an all-volunteer community makerspace. We maintain an 8,500 sq.f.t space as a lab/shop/studio with tools. Members have RFID-badge 24x7 access to our facilities and can bring guests. We conduct weekly meetings that are open to the general public that include show-and-tells and periodic guest speakers with topics of interest. We conduct informal training and more formal certification on the use of our shop equipment. We host two Google Groups (one open to the general public and the other that is member oriented) and use DISCOURSE as an additional online membership communication channel. At the end of 2024, we had 71 members. Our first program service expense went to rent at [$24,502], utilities at [$8,333] and insurance at [$1,951]. This combined expense is [$35,392].
$35,392 spent83% of program spendingWe are an all-volunteer community makerspace, a lab/shop/studio with tools. Operations [$1,211] and Repair [$316] costs are the significant program service and expense [$1,527] identified here.
$1,527 spent4% of program spendingBy member vote, we made improvements to our community shop. We invested [$5,561] in improvement expenses that our 3D-printing, wook dworking, and metal working shops. These improvements are the third signficant program activity identified here.
$5,561 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,480.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $363 → $230.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LVL1 INC’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
100% of LVL1 INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
LVL1 INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 660 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LVL1 INC?
- LVL1 INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,324 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,324). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LVL1 INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,324 in grants to LVL1 INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LVL1 INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LVL1 INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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