Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 453 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,469,277 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($23,739,400). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 453
- Grants received
- $146M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Facing History & Ourselves Inc does
Mission
Facing history & ourselves uses lessons of history to equip teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry and hate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Facing history & ourselves provides high-quality instructional materials and industry-leading professional learning opportunities to teachers, schools, and districts. Our programs enhance classroom environments and adademic engagement, and empower students to create positive change in their communities and around the world. Through seven offices in the usa, and numerous global partnerships, facing history has a network of more than 300,000 active educators.
$24,464,925 spent$1,783,608 earned by the program80% of program spendingFacing history & ourselves designs curricula and related teaching materials for middle and high school teachers on topics including social studies, history, civics, ela, sel, moral and ethical reasoning, and more. The materials are used by hundreds of thousands of teachers every year. Examples of content areas covered include the holocaust, reconstruction in the post-civil war era, us history, civics, and literature.
$3,325,188 spent11% of program spendingFacing history & ourselves provides training, support, and classroom curricula to teachers through a variety of channels, including virtual and in-person events, and a digital platform. In addition, facing history communicates with educators and a broader community through social media, direct email communication, and other writing, including blogs and white papers. The organization encourages a broad range of stakeholders - but students in particular - to learn about and from history, to engage in meaningful and constructive dialogue, and to see their role as civic participants.
$2,872,275 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,662,388.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $51M to $73M (+44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 114 funders to 174 funders, grant income rose $8.4M → $18M.
67 of 453 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 453 funders by total. 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
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 22% · 2019 13% · 2020 22% · 2021 44% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
48% of FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $67M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 33 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record — $61k federal, $40k state.
- Department of the Interior$38k
- Department of State$23k
- MA$20k
- NJ$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: 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 FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC?
- FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 453 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,469,277 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($23,739,400). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 453 organizations giving $146,469,277 in grants to FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC, 270 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,739,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 453 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing