California · Nonprofit
Unsung Heroes Living History Project
Unsung Heroes Living History Project (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,363 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $259
What Unsung Heroes Living History Project does
Mission
The Unsung Heroes Living History Project presents photographic displays of African American veterans, presents exhibits, book discussions, and luncheons to bring veterans, families, and the community together to pay tribute to those who served.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Veterans We Served Exhibits
$12,169 spentof which $8,000 as grants43% of program spendingYouth Employment Training
$14,861 spentof which $8,969 as grants52% of program spendingTeam Health, Happiness & Harmony
$1,319 spentof which $8,192 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,349.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $26k to $259 (−99%).
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.
100% of Unsung Heroes Living History Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lisa Daniels MA
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $107k → $34.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Unsung Heroes Living History Project’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Unsung Heroes Living History Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Unsung Heroes Living History Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 47% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of Unsung Heroes Living History Project's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Unsung Heroes Living History Project's revenue fell 68% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Unsung Heroes Living History Project: 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 Unsung Heroes Living History Project?
- Unsung Heroes Living History Project (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,363 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Unsung Heroes Living History Project have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $108,363 in grants to Unsung Heroes Living History Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Unsung Heroes Living History Project?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Unsung Heroes Living History Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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