Lvl1 Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $52,746
- Spending
- $49,064
- Reserves
- 16.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- other income, 90%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $35,392 spent. 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].
- $1,527 spent. We 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.
- $5,561 spent. By 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.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since March 2013.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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