Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752113723
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, United States
- Phone
- 214-741-7500
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- History Museums
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,920,475
- Expenses
- $10,767,785
- Assets
- $54,370,910
- Liabilities
- $484,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
71 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY PAT HIGGINS (PRESIDENT, CEO)
- PAUL VON WUPPERFELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY PAT HIGGINS (PRESIDENT, CEO): $474,895 total reported compensation
- JESSICA GARNER (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT& EA OFFICER): $198,141 total reported compensation
- SARA ABOSCH (CHIEF EDUCATION&PROGRAM OFFICE): $181,442 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is dedicated to teaching the history of the Holocaust and advancing human rights to combat prejudice, hatred and indifference. Education is at the heart of our mission. Through partnerships with regional school districts, the Museum serves more than 300,000 students each year. A combination of thought-provoking field trips, virtual programs, and classroom resources gives students and educators a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, human rights, and how tragedies of the past inform their lives today. Learn about opportunities to visit the Museum here. Interested in attending speaker events, films, panel discussions, and special events? Check out our upcoming programs and events here.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is to teach the history of the Holocaust and advance human rights to combat prejudice, hatred, and indifference. It is committed to making the lessons of the Holocaust and human rights history accessible to everyone in order to prevent modern-day genocides and acts of injustice. The Museum invites all visitors and students to become upstanders, individuals who stand up for other people and their rights. The new Museum, which opened on September 18, 2019, is a 55,000-square-foot facility that aspires to welcome more than 200,000 visitors annually, including 80,000 students, and will provide (Continued in schedule o, page 2)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.05; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 65 of 65 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $475K · 71 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.