Holocaust Resource Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222426171
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Short Hills, NJ, USA
Phone
9734675000
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies & Historic Preservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$174,562
Expenses
$174,180
Assets
$595,004
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHELLEY PARADIS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SHELLEY PARADIS (PRESIDENT)
  • ERWIN FISCH (TRUSTEE)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See schedule o the holocaust resource foundation supports the holocaust resource center whose mission is to foster and reinforce awareness about the holocaust among students, teachers and community members and to apply the lessons to be learned from it to our lives today. The center promotes messages of respect, understanding and empowerment and fulfills their educational mandate through teacher training, collections and commemorative events.

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule o over the last four decades, the hrf's success in supporting the development and implementation of training programs has established itself as a regional leader in promoting awareness and education about the holocaust. Also, the center host pre-service teacher, educator, and bi-lingual conferences throughout each year.1. Diversity council on global education and leadership at kean university: supporting the holocaust resource foundation and the holocaust resource center in achieving its goal of global education and engagement is the diversity council on global education and citizenship of kean university.founded in 1990, the council provides more than 130 member school districts with opportunities that empower educators to create safe, inclusive learning environments for all students by providing common core-aligned professional development.the council fosters the continued growth of active and compassionate individuals in order to reduce intolerance, harassment/intimidation, and to promote social justice in a democratic society.the council hosts annual elementary, middle, and high school conferences, as well as leadership seminars. These professional development sessions explore diversity-related themes including bullying, holocaust and genocide education, civil rights, and confronting human rights abuses.2. Annual scholar lecture & commemorative programs: each year, the holocaust resource foundation and the holocaust resource center delivers two hallmark events the murray pantirer scholars' lecture and yom hashoah memorial service as well as commemorative programs for international holocaust remembrance day and kristallnacht/november pogrom, and holocaust and genocide awareness month (april). The hrc also hosts various programs with kean university colleges and departments; communities with a history of genocide, including rwandese and armenian speakers; and organizations such as jewish foundation for the righteous, american society for yad vashem, echoes & reflections, yahad-in unum, the holocaust council of jewish federation of greater metrowest nj, facing history and ourselves, and more. We also partner with religious communities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.3. Josiah e. Dubois jr. Collection: the holocaust resource center of kean university was honored to receive the josiah e. Dubois jr. Collection recently. Dubois, originally of camden, nj, served as the general counsel of the war refugee board, the agency created by president franklin roosevelt in 1944 to rescue and provide relief for jews and persecuted minorities during the holocaust. Dubois later served as the chief prosecutor at the i.g. Farben trial, one of the nuremberg war crimes trials in postwar germany. His papers, which include original handwritten drafts and notes related to the creation of the war refugee board, debates related to allied treatment of postwar germany, transcripts of nuremberg proceedings, and drafts of dubois's memoir, will be an important source for scholars of the holocaust and the nuremberg trials.4. Oral history project: in 1982, the holocaust resource center launched an oral history project to gather and preserve first-person eyewitness accounts, resulting in a unique collection of more than 200 original oral histories from local holocaust survivors, rescuers, and liberators.the testimonies provide historical context about jewish life in prewar europe, the events of the holocaust, and rebuilding community after genocide. By critically engaging with these narratives, they help us build imperative connections between the antisemitism and persecution experienced by europe's jews, and recent incidents of injustice, displacement, and genocide in the 21st century.today, these oral history collections are associated with the united states holocaust memorial museum in Washington, d.c., hebrew university in jerusalem, and yale university in new haven, ct. A number of the oral histories are featured in the

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: 0.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 72.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $174K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.