Texas · Nonprofit
THE LEVEL UP PROJECT
THE LEVEL UP PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $981,032 to it, the largest being Transgender Law Center ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $981k
- Net assets
- $34k
What The Level Up Project does
Mission
The Level Up Project is driven by a singular mission: to enable non-profit organizations and communities to achieve their full potential. The organization believes in the power of partnership, innovation, and strategic support to transform visions into impactful realities. The organization's commitment lies in elevating missions and transforming communities through comprehensive services tailored to the unique needs of non-profits and the communities they serve.The Level Up Project's commitment is to foster enduring change in urban, rural, and underserved areas, where disparities are most pronounced. The organization aims to create a world where everyone, can thrive and achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, The Level Up Project's Fiscal Sponsorship program provided crucial back-office support, financial guidance, and mentorship to several promising grassroots initiatives, allowing them to focus on their vital community work and expand their impact. The significantly expanded Financial Literacy program offered tailored workshops, accessible online resources, and community-based sessions covering essential financial skills like budgeting, saving, and understanding credit, alongside specialized tracks for aspiring entrepreneurs. These programs fostered greater economic independence and resilience within underserved communities by equipping individuals with practical knowledge and supporting community-led change efforts. The fiscal sponsorship initiative also facilitated valuable connections and skill-building opportunities among the supported projects. Ultimately, both programs in 2025 effectively amplified community-driven solutions and individual financial empowerment across diverse populations.Financial Stewardship & Community ImpactAs a trusted intermediary and partner in social change, The Level Up Project proudly served as the fiscal steward for $2,416,191 in total…
$168,593 spent$245,478 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24k to $188k (+677%).
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.
0% of THE LEVEL UP PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Alyssa C Douglas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 THE LEVEL UP PROJECT’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
THE LEVEL UP PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 THE LEVEL UP PROJECT.
“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.
Where its funders are
THE LEVEL UP PROJECT draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k 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.
Against its field
THE LEVEL UP PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LEVEL UP PROJECT
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The South Empowerment Collective · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LEVEL UP PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LEVEL UP PROJECT?
- THE LEVEL UP PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $981,032 to it, the largest being Transgender Law Center ($180,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LEVEL UP PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $981,032 in grants to THE LEVEL UP PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEVEL UP PROJECT?
- Transgender Law Center is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEVEL UP PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing