Holocaust Documentation and Education Center

Legal name: Holocaust Documentation and Education Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591992826
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Dania Beach, FL, United States
Phone
(954) 929-5690
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies & Historic Preservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,374,604
Expenses
$1,924,414
Assets
$8,014,607
Liabilities
$1,529,188

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

52 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HON ROSITTA E KENIGSBERG (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • HON ROSITTA E KENIGSBERG (PRESIDENT): $203,519 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To document and present an enduring, historically accurate record of the Holocaust through eyewitness testimonies (Survivors, Liberators, Rescuers and others) and to educate this and future generations about the unique and universal lessons and legacy of the Holocaust, revealing the catastrophic ramifications of prejudice, hatred and bullying. Student Awareness Days continue to be lauded for being one of the HDEC outstanding Educational Outreach programs, since 1985. These anti-bullying, prejudice-reduction programs have sensitized hundreds of thousands of middle school, high school, college, and university students, as well as tens of thousands of teachers. The Student Awareness Days provide a unique opportunity for students and teachers to interact directly with Holocaust Survivors and engage in important dialogue with living history. Teacher Training Institutes provide...

What it reported doing in 2024

Library our library is a major research destination for scholars, historians, and researchers to help document facts and refute those who seek to deny that it happened as well as an invaluable resource for students, teachers, professors, and the general public. The hdec collection includes: approximately 6,000 volumes of library books, several hundred dvds and vhs tapes in more than 15 languages, the largest self-produced oral history library collection of thousands of holocaust eyewitness testimonies. Our library is a major research destination for scholars, historians, and researchers to help document facts and refute those who seek to deny that it happened as well as an invaluable resource (see sched. O) for students, teachers, professors, and the general public. The hdec collection includes: approximately 6,000 volumes of library books, several hundred dvds and vhs tapes in more than 15 languages, the largest self- produced oral history library collection of thousands of holocaust eyewitness testimonies. In 2010, we began the digitization process of our 2,400 oral history interviews. In addition to the digitization our oral history library collection, we also have been working on digitizing all of the artifacts in our photograph, documentation and newspaper collections so that these important and unique items will be made available to the public for research and education. The center is currently engaged in development of an online digital library. Once completed, visitors will be able to search and browse through our oral history interviews, photographs and letters, from any computer around the globe. Hdec maintains the largest, self-produced, standardized oral history library collection consisting of approximately 2,400 interviews with holocaust survivors, rescuers, liberators and other eyewitnesses. Eyewitness testimonies are an invaluable resource for students, teachers and the general public. Approximately 60% of the interviewees are no longer alive. However their testimony and legacy live on to ensure that present and future generations will remember and will learn the universal lessons of the holocaust of what prejudice and hatred can lead to. These lessons are of vital importance for everyone, and especially for children and young adults. It is estimated that we lose ten percent of our survivor population each year. Soon younger generations will not have an opportunity to meet them, speak with them, and hear their stories.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 52
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -40%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.16; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 51.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $994K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 52 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.