Foundation for Holocaust Genocide & Memory Studies

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273214066
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2015
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Amherst, MA, USA
Phone
4138350221
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Brain Disorders

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMES YOUNG (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAMES YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
  • JAMES YOUNG (TREASURER)
  • LARA CURTIS (CLERK)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Researching and teaching on the holocaust and perpetuating the memory andrepresentation of the holocaust and other acts of genocide.

What it reported doing in 2015

Reflecting the critical mass of umass amherst faculty and graduate students doing work in holocaust, genocide, and cultural memory studies, the great strength and unusual prominence of the faculty's research, and the enormous public and topical interest in related areas, the institute's specific strengths include the study and sharing of work in: the public history of the holocaust and other genocides; literary and visual cultures of the holocaust; memorialization of the holocaust and other genocides at national and local levels; the representation of the holocaust and other genocides in film (specifically in german, east german, soviet-era, hungarian, french, african, and japanese contexts); video testimony; art and architecture; trauma; cultural memory studies; and the development of a holocaust teaching curriculum for middle and high schools of the commonwealth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1,850.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -134.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2013 to 2015
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.