Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial
Legal name: Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memori
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843843536
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Albany, NY, United States
- Phone
- 5186949984
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,248
- Expenses
- $16,988
- Assets
- $389,478
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL DEMBLING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL DEMBLING (PRESIDENT)
- JEAN ROSENTHAL (BOARD MEMBER)
- TOBIE SCHLOSSTEIN (TREASURER- INACTIVE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2018, CDJHM is a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit organization dedicated to memorializing the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust while educating the public about the consequences of hatred, brutality, and apathy. An Orthodontist, Dr. Michael Lozman *, was the visionary and founder of Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial, Inc. His commitment to remembrance and to overcoming hate and prejudice knew no bounds. Michael’s goal of creating a permanent Holocaust Memorial in the Capital District officially began in 2018, but his work on the project started long before that. Through his commitment and work on this issue, Michael forged a special friendship with Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, who graciously donated two acres of land for the development of a Holocaust memorial in the Capital District. He was grateful to the Roman Catholic Diocese for its...
What it reported doing in 2025
The construction, development, and maintenance of a permanent memorial to the six million jews and other victims of the holocaust in europe as well as educate the public of the consequence of hatred, brutality, and apathy. The organization is in the process of raising funds for the memorial.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.1%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 22
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.93; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 12.1% of revenue deployed · 21.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.