Amud Aish Memorial Museum
Legal name: Kleinman Holocaust Education Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270644792
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7182566000
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,500
- Expenses
- $6,242
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $13,891,573
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLY KLEINMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALEX EDELMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- MOISHE HELLMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- JACK JAFFA (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Amud Aish Memorial Museum (AAMM) is a living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, with a mission to present the victim experience—especially emphasizing the perspectives of observant Jewish communities and the role of faith within the broader context of the annihilation of European Jewry. Amud Aish Memorial Museum (AAMM) is a living memorial to all the victims of the Holocaust. The museum’s mission is to present the victim experience, with special emphasis on the perspectives of observant Jewish communities. It is the only Holocaust museum to focus on the role of faith within the broader context of the annihilation of European Jewry. The Amud Aish Memorial Museum and its educational division, The Kleinman Holocaust Education Center (KHEC), have emerged as invaluable resources for educational programming, Orthodox specific archives, and new scholarship. The primary facility will...
What it reported doing in 2024
We have become fully functioning in our temporary brooklyn location. We have annual exhibits, and our archive has grown immensely with hundreds of thousands of artifacts and documents. Also, our education department has continued a school visits program that includes continuous visits by school groups to our exhibits and workshops. Several thousand children are anticipated to visit this school year which is a sharp increase from the previous year. We have also hosted several communal programs and exhibits that have drawn crowds of hundreds of attendees. General attendance is expected to double as more schools are showing interest than ever before. Community centers, senior centers and synagogues have also approached us to curate exhibits and events for their communities and areas. There is also an arts and literacy contest that reaches thousands and has over a thousand entries from schools nationwide.the center's operations were temporarily suspended as of 6/30/23.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.