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LEVER FUND

EIN 46-4371412 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2023
$67,430
Expenses 2023
$79,563

Program services were 32.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
5440 NEVADA AVE NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE LEVER FUND WAS FORMED WITH THE MISSION TO RAISE MORE LOCAL POVERTY-FIGHTING DOLLARS AND TO SPEND THEM IN A SMARTER, DATA-DRIVEN WAY.THE LEVER FUND MODEL IS INSPIRED BY SUCCESSFUL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION (NEW YORK CITY, NY), A BETTER CHICAGO (CHICAGO, IL), AND TIPPING POINT (SAN FRANCISCO, CA). LIKE THESE INNOVATIVE NONPROFIT FUNDERS, THE LEVER FUND APPLIES SOUND METRICS, EMPHASIZES GENUINE IMPACT, AND IS COMMITTED TO PRODUCING SOLID RETURNS ON INVESTMENT WITH THE GOAL OF MOVING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY TO OPPORTUNITY--WHILE KEEPING INVESTORS INFORMED EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LEVER FUND WAS FORMED WITH THE MISSION TO RAISE MORE LOCAL POVERTY-FIGHTING DOLLARS AND TO SPEND THEM IN A SMARTER, DATA-DRIVEN WAY.

  • RAISE LOCAL POVERTY-FIGHTING DOLLARS AND MAKE INVESTMENTS/GRANTS IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE, HIGH-IMPACT NONPROFITS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA, THE DISTRICT, AND MARYLAND.

    Expenses $25,957 · Grants $20,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • NATHANIEL PEARLMAN

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • CONNIE K N CHANG

    BOARD CHAIR & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MATT CLYNE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HARLEY RADIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HANNFRIED VON HINDENBERG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $67,430
    Expenses
    $79,563
    Contributions
    $67,417
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $107,593
    Expenses
    $80,916
    Contributions
    $107,592
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,613
    Expenses
    $71,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,612

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $64,342
    Expenses
    $55,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,005

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,724
    Expenses
    $25,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,130

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,037
    Expenses
    $105,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,958

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $111,394
    Expenses
    $85,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,812

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,400
    Expenses
    $217,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,969

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,152
    Expenses
    $98,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,864

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $163,603
    Expenses
    $142,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,512

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.