Indiana Jewish Historical Society
Legal name: Indiana Jewish Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351288789
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, United States
- Phone
- 317-749-0048
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,917
- Expenses
- $60,322
- Assets
- $282,611
- Liabilities
- $47,124
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Corn (President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Corn (President)
- Joshua Clayborn (Treasurer)
- Don Simkim (VP Membership)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Indiana Jewish Historical Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization with a mission to collect, preserve, publish, and share the Jewish experience in Indiana. The Indiana Jewish Historical Society continues to collect and preserve historical Jewish records, documents, photographs, and other historically significant materials connected to Indiana’s Jewish past, and to educate the public and the Jewish community about our Jewish heritage spanning over 200 years in the Hoosier state. We achieve this through Scan-A-thons, speaker events, our IN-Jewish History Podcast, and our annual publication. Our Board.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hoosier Jewish Legends - Award Reception
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.69; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 21.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.