Texas · Nonprofit
Values Through History
Values Through History (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,340 to it, the largest being THE SUMNERS FOUNDATION ($63,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $204k
What Values Through History does
Mission
To bring to life and make relevant the world-changing events, foundational documents, and civic principles that are the bedrock of our nation in a way that inspires greatness, ignites a curiosity for learning, generates respect and responsibility, and unifies Americans through their shared national identity. Values Through History accomplishes its mission through a tightly integrated, upper elementary, total immersion curriculum that covers the people, big ideas, issues, and events of the American Revolution and the civic principles that are the foundation of the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Values Through History (VTH) created the Why America Is Free Curriculum, a highly successful non-partisan, upper elementary, integrated six-week curriculum correlated to state and national standards. It uses best teaching methods to fully engage all students in dynamic, hands-on, profound learning. It is unparalleled in providing the most comprehensive and accurate understanding of the nation's founding history, foundational documents, and civic principles. It results in students who unify across cultural and socio-economic divides and gain the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to become people of outstanding character and responsible, engaged good citizens.
$8,965 spent67% of program spendingThe Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route and the Franco-American Alliance is a richly illustrated book that brings to life the extraordinary story of the crucial wartime alliance between France and America during the American Revolution. The narrative is keyed to a fold-out map and further enhanced by a guide for travelers to historical sites along the 9-state National Historic Route that retraces the route of the Allied Forces from Newport to victory in Yorktown. The book was written at the request of the American Society of the French Legion of Honor and the Society of the Cincinnati.
$4,401 spent33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,366.
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 $74k to $165k (+122%).
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 Values Through History’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Values Through History’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
Values Through History leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
77% of Values Through History's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 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
Values Through History runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Values Through History
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Values Through History: 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 Values Through History?
- Values Through History (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,340 to it, the largest being THE SUMNERS FOUNDATION ($63,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Values Through History have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,340 in grants to Values Through History, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Values Through History?
- THE SUMNERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Values Through History find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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