2025-08-06T09:51:39-07:00 2024-12-31 470908994 SYR Accountancy APC 320 13Th Street Ste 305 Oakland CA 94612 990 2024-01-01 912162373 The Free History Project Inc FREE 4153457716 168 Hancock Street San Francisco CA 94114 Sam Green Treasurer 2025-08-06 true true Thomas Yeh P00173847 5102388638 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 168 Hancock Street San Francisco CA 94114 626466 false X www.freehistoryproject.org Produce & distribute educational media. 6 2 0 0 367498 429949 124535 196517 0 0 492033 626466 331520 533625 0 90425 91560 0 0 55852 46565 477797 671750 14236 -45284 95677 50393 0 95677 50393 Produce & distribute educational media. false false 577493 196517 In 2024, The Free History Project, Inc. (FHP) consulted on production with independent documentary filmmakers including Michael Almereyda, Matt Wolf, Sandi Dubowski, Maya Hawke, Michael Coleman, Gabriel Lester, Chris Wilcha, Sandi Roney, Annie Roney, Catalina Kulczar, Francisco Bello, Lisa Rovner, Adam Neuhaus and others. Consultations focused on documentary filmmaking in general as well as feedback on particular projects, career advice, archival projects, film editing, and more. Additionally, FHP visited colleges and universities to speak with students about documentary filmmaking, sound and live cinema. These presentations were at schools including Harvard University, Pratt Institute, Dartmouth College, New York University, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr and Bard College. In 2024, FHP presented both the live and theatrical versions of the feature documentary 32 Sounds around the world, including shows in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and Canada. 32 Sounds played throughout the United States with over 40 screenings in 14 states including New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, California, Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maine, Washington and Georgia. After years of very limited in person screenings it was a thrill to bring audiences together to experience the live documentary. FHP also presented A Thousand Thoughts, a live documentary about the Kronos Quartet that explores the quartet?s groundbreaking, continent-spanning, multi-decade career in Amsterdam, Seattle, Houston, La Jolla and Aliso Viejo, CA. A Thousand Thoughts had its final performance at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, CA in June 2024. This final performance was filmed live for the creation of a theatrical and streaming version of the project in the future. A Thousand Thoughts originally premiered in 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival. FHP also presented ?The Ephemeral Cinema of Sam Green,? a retrospective at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The organization also continued filming and editing The Oldest Person in the World, a feature film weaving together portraits of the people who hold the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person alive. In addition to filming additional footage we began to edit the film, and look forward to bringing it to audiences in 2026. FHP also continued development on Untitled Tree Project, a live cinema performance work that will combine documentary film, live music, and text to create a celebration of trees and all they can teach us about being human. The Free History Project also continued developing V. Vale: All American Boy, a short documentary portrait of V. Vale, a little-known, but hugely influential cultural anthropologist in San Francisco. Due to the development and production work we?ve done this year the film continues to move forward and we hope to bring it to audiences soon. This past year FHP continued its long-running outreach efforts with the feature film, The Weather Underground, including through domestic, international, home and educational distribution. FHP also continued to distribute The Universal Language, a 30-minute, educational documentary on the history of the invented language Esperanto. FHP continued to focus on distributing the film through direct downloads from a website created for the film, as well as educational collections and university libraries. Finally, FHP has supported other critical documentary & educational work through fiscal sponsorship of urgent documentary projects including 32 Sounds, The Oldest Person in the World, V. Vale: All-American Boy, A Thousand Thoughts and The Returning, a film about ?a returning generation of young Black Farmers? who ?reconnect to the land to grow food, build community, and reclaim power.? Per usual, the Free History Project?s 990 was circulated to the board in advance of its filing for feedback and questions, and was unanimously approved via email. 577493 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false true true false true false false false false false false false false false true 14 0 true 0 false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 2 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false false false false false CA X Mark Decena 4153457716 168 Hancock Street San Francisco CA 94114 Sam Green Treasurer 40.00 0.00 X 55189 0 0 Alison Byrne Fields Board Member 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Chi-hui Yang Board Member 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Joshua Penn Vice President 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tabitha Jackson Board Member 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Decena President 0.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 55189 0 false false false 0 429949 429949 Misc Income: Fees & Reimb Screening & Sales 713990 196517 196517 196517 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 626466 196517 533625 533625 0 0 0 55189 55189 0 36371 36371 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6929 6929 0 0 0 504 504 0 0 0 0 0 33910 1771 32139 Project Costs 5222 5222 0 671750 577493 94257 0 87748 42464 7928 7928 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 95677 50393 0 0 X 95677 50393 95677 50393 95677 50393 -45284 X false false false X 149494 436657 204912 367498 429949 1588510 0 0 149494 436657 204912 367498 429949 1588510 689939 898571 0 0 0 1588510 0.56570 0.51600 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false 32 Sounds LLC 800 Poland Ave New Orleans LA 70117 871571471 30000 0 Fiscal Sponsorship Department of Motion Pictures 800 Poland Ave New Orleans LA 70117 472501153 12500 0 Fiscal Sponsorship Kontent Films 168 Hancock Street San Francisco CA 94114 943296450 95100 0 Fiscal Sponsorship Kriegsmann Enterprises LLC PO BOX 180241 Brooklyn NY 11218 204761329 105975 0 Fiscal Sponsorship Oldest Person LLC 800 Poland Ave New Orleans LA 70117 364919657 230000 0 Fiscal Sponsorship Tree Tree LLC 800 Poland Ave New Orleans LA 70117 934810330 55000 0 Fiscal Sponsorship 0 6 Mark Decena President 95100 Fiscal Sponsorsh Provide a grant Sam Green Treasurer 341000 Fiscal Sponsorsh Provide a grant Alison Byrne Fields Board Member 230000 Fiscal Sponsorsh Provide a grant Joshua Penn Vice President 327500 Fiscal Sponsorsh Provide a grant Sam Green Treasurer 55189 Independent Contractor false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Independent production company Kontent, an entity owned by Mark Decena, received project-specific grants of $95,100 for "The Returning," under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with The Free History Project. Independent LLC 32 Sounds LLC, an entity co-owned by Samuel Green and Josh Penn received project-specific grants totaling $30,000 for "32 Sounds," under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with The Free History Project. Independent LLC TREE TREE LLC, an entity co-owned by Samuel Green and Josh Penn received project-specific grants totaling $55,000 for "Untitled Tree Project" under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with The Free History Project. Independent LLC Oldest Person LLC, an entity co-owned by Samuel Green, Josh Penn and Alison Byrne Fields, received a project-specific grant of $230,000 for "The Oldest Person in the World," under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with The Free History Project. Independent LLC The Department of Motion Pictures, an entity co-owned by Josh Penn, received a project-specific grant of $12,500 for ?A Thousand Thoughts Redux," under a fiscal sponsorship agreement with The Free History Project. The Free History Project also continued developing V. Vale: All American Boy, a short documentary portrait of V. Vale, a little-known, but hugely influential cultural anthropologist in San Francisco. The project received $13,500 in grant funds from California Humanities. Due to the development and production work we?ve done this year the film continues to move forward and we hope to bring it to audiences soon. Fiscal sponsorship grants to The Department of Motion Pictures, 32 Sounds LLC, TREE TREE LLC, Kontent & Oldest Person LLC were each project-specific and per agreement with sponsee are to be used only for the specified projects. FHP remains in close communication with 32 Sounds LLC, TREE TREE, LLC, Kontent and Oldest Person LLC about the progress of the projects & use of funds. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The treasurer approves the 990 before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Upon request at place of business.