- Revenue 2024
- $2,470,913
- Expenses 2024
- $1,355,550
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D12
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 48 N QUEEN ST # 2
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 · 2024
Mission
The Lever Foundation Growth Fund is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, whose purpose is to support the charitable mission of Lever Foundation (and other charities that share its mission) to prevent animal suffering by promoting healthy, humane and sustainable food choices. One effective way to create a more humane food system is to support and empower entrepreneurs and startup companies who are creating alternative protein products-foods that replace conventional animal protein on consumers' plates with plant-based proteins or other proteins produced without the need to raise and slaughter live animals. By helping entrepreneurs launch companies in this sector, and by helping early stage startups that would not otherwise be able to attractive commercial funding in this sector grow, the Fund can help shift a portion of protein production and consumption to food products that do not cause animal suffering.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Lever Foundation Growth Fund is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, whose purpose is to support the charitable mission of Lever Foundation (and other charities that share its mission) to prevent animal suffering by promoting healthy, humane and sustainable food choices. One effective way to create a more humane food system is to support and empower entrepreneurs and startup companies who are creating alternative protein products-foods that replace conventional animal protein on consumers' plates with plant-based proteins or other proteins produced without the need to raise and slaughter live animals. By helping entrepreneurs launch companies in this sector, and by helping early stage startups that would not otherwise be able to attract commercial funding in this sector grow, the Fund can help shift a portion of protein production and consumption to food products that do not cause animal suffering.
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The Fund will also carries out general grantmaking, providing grants to Lever Foundation and other public charities that share the Foundation's mission.
Expenses $1,355,000 · Grants $1,355,000
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One of the core initial activities of the Fund is to receive donations for Program-Related Investments in entrepreneurs and startups working in the alternative protein space that have a high potential to impact the Fund's charitable purposes but may not be able to attract sufficient commercial funding to make that impact. All Funds going out are Investments, and not expenditures.
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Kai Yi Carrie Chan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nick Cooney
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brian Ottens
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Yaqi Gao Grover
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $2,470,913
- Expenses
- $1,355,550
- Contributions
- $2,470,913
- Grants paid
- $1,355,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,578,500
- Expenses
- $2,700,591
- Contributions
- $2,578,500
- Grants paid
- $2,700,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $2,273,000
- Expenses
- $1,725,573
- Contributions
- $2,273,000
- Grants paid
- $1,725,000
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,661,000
- Expenses
- $2,297,369
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,497,532
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,039,100
- Expenses
- $1,905,199
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,133,901
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
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$2,700,000
2023 Lever Foundation Growth Fund maintains a donor advised fund with CharityVest, Inc. This grant was to that donor advised fund, which, in turn was granted to the Supported Organization, Lever Foundation, Inc.
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$1,600,000
2022 Lever Foundation Growth Fund maintains a donor advised fund with CharityVest, Inc. This grant was to that donor advised fund, which, in turn was granted to the Supported Organization, Lever Foundation, Inc.
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$1,355,000
2024 Lever Foundation Growth Fund maintains a donor advised fund with CharityVest, Inc. This grant was to that donor advised fund, which, in turn was granted to the Supported Organization, Lever Foundation, Inc.
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$125,000
2022 Given to Supported Organization to further their mission.
Grants received
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VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
$2,104,750
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
$2,076,750
2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION
$350,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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501(c)(3) · Prevent animal suffering and cruelty to animals by promoting healthy, humane and sustainable food. · PA
Declared as related by
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On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
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 SO.
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.