Jewish Museum of Maryland
Legal name: Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 526034761
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, United States
- Phone
- (443) 873-5160
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,814,222
- Expenses
- $2,792,632
- Assets
- $13,929,415
- Liabilities
- $495,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIKA RIEF HORNSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
- TOBY GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT A MANEKIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JILL MAX (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NANCY R KUTLER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- SOL BRYAN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SOL BRYAN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $202,091 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At the Jewish Museum of Maryland, our central charge is telling the story of Jewish Maryland and connecting people to Jewish experiences. Through generous capital investment, our Museum has been redesigned under the banner of “Building the Participatory Museum,” and that means transforming the relationship between the Museum and its audiences from presenter and viewer to collaborators and co-producers. We have redesigned the Museum’s architecture and updated its technologies to support a practice that prioritizes collaboration with community onsite and online. The Jewish Museum of Maryland is embarking on the next era of its evolution from historical society to cultural center, and now: a fully formed 21st century museum. People hold a central position within our evolving practice. I invite you to join us in our work of enlive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and outreach: the jmm provides services to students and teachers annually through on-site and off-site activities and professional development symposia. In addition, we provide tours of our historic synagogues and exhibitions for adult groups and walk-in visitors and public programs on a wide range of topics for audiences of all backgrounds. We also offer outreach services through our website, searchable digital collection, traveling exhibitions, and living history performances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.2%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.99; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 55.2% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $202K · 22 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $3M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.