Virginia · Nonprofit
FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION
FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $241k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $848k
What Forgotten Heroes Foundation does
Programs
Provide students educational opportunities in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("stem"), all with an emphasis on aviation. The foundation will work closely with local schools and community organizations to acquaint them with its programs through emails, phone calls, brochures, and personal briefings.
$55,040 spentThe foundation will host lectures on various stem disciplines by foundation volunteers with specific subject matter expertise. These lectures may cover general stem topics such as weather, aerodynamics, computer programming, and radio communications, as well as aviationfocused topics such as the scientific principles of flight, the technology of flight, and the engineering and mathematics of flight. The foundation may also offer lectures focusing on specific historical aircraft, forgotten heroes, locations, and events. Lectures will be offered for teachers, community leaders, students, and the communities in which the students live, as appropriate. Lectures may be designed to enrich the limited curriculum offered in schools.
$105,052 spentThe foundation will offer workshops for middle school students and the community where groups will spend hands-on time with the historical aircraft and volunteers will explain the science behind the aircraft. Students will move the aircraft, examine the various surfaces, and perform exercises related to flight, navigation, and maintenance. By bringing students into close contact with historical aircraft and military aviators (retired and/or active-duty), the lessons will come alive and provide context for the general stem principles the students learn in school. These active learning strategies will help increase student engagement and promote collaboration.
$55,040 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $226k to $673k (+198%).
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.
Chief executive
Cdr Micah Lenox
Chief executive
Board chair
Rafael Collado
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION's revenue fell 31% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION?
- FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORGOTTEN HEROES FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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