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Los Angeles, CA

LEVEL GROUND INC

EIN 46-2724477
Arts, Culture & Heritage Film & Media Arts Black communities Latino communities LGBTQ+ communities
Mission

Level Ground seeks to provoke empathy across divisive cultural narratives through the arts by presenting work from underrepresented artists and engaging new, unexpected audiences.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

About LEVEL GROUND INC

Level Ground Inc is an active Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) artist collective and documentary production company that supports Black, brown, trans, queer, and other underrepresented artists through residencies, social-practice labs, and a production incubator. The organization operates both as a collective that incubates community-rooted artistic practice and as a production house that produces and distributes documentary and nonfiction film projects. The organization’s EIN (46-2724477) and tax-exempt status have been confirmed through publicly available nonprofit filings and directories. In the last 2–3 years Level Ground has sustained programming and production activity (including films shortlisted for awards and festival premieres), secured public arts grants, and run donor campaigns to support staff artists and community programming.

Notable achievements

UNION — 2024 Oscar shortlist

Produced the feature film UNION, which was named to the 2024 Oscar shortlist for documentary shorts/features, marking a high-profile recognition of Level Ground’s production work and visibility for labor and social-justice storytelling.

State of Firsts — Tribeca premiere (2025)

Produced State of Firsts, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025, demonstrating Level Ground’s capacity to develop films that reach major international festival platforms and amplify trans and LGBTQ+ political narratives.

Established artist residency + incubator programs

Operates a sustained residency program, Social Practice Labs, and a Production Incubator that have supported emerging and underrepresented Los Angeles artists with exhibition opportunities, professional development, and seed production support across multiple recent cycles.

At a glance

Total assets
$109K
Annual revenue
$452K
Tax status
501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN
46-2724477
Location
Los Angeles, CA
On Mahalo since
April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Verified 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 46-2724477) with publicly available Form 990 filings and nonprofit directory listings.
Recipient of public arts funding and institutional grants, including awards from state and local arts agencies and national arts funders that have supported collective programming and productions.
External charity evaluator listing with a positive accountability/finance score (three-star/Good-level rating) indicating established financial reporting and donor-facing presence.

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