Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Legal name: Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133376265
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 6464374200
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,950,703
- Expenses
- $20,137,671
- Assets
- $44,888,412
- Liabilities
- $2,911,210
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACK KLIGER (CEO & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JACK KLIGER (CEO & PRESIDENT): $555,000 total reported compensation
- AVRAHAM Z GROLL (ED OF JEWISH GEN): $233,099 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA MACK (VP OF MARKETING): $227,825 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Museum of Jewish Heritage is dedicated to a living memorial to the Holocaust. The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York’s contribution to the global responsibility to Never Forget. Opened in 1997, the Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and since the Holocaust. The Museum plays a leading role in Holocaust education in New York City and the tri-state area, serving many thousands of school children each year; through its exhibitions, initiatives including the Holocaust Educator School Partnership Program (HESP), professional development opportunities, Speakers Bureau enabling conversations with survivors, and creation of tools and resources to support educators in.
What it reported doing in 2024
Collections and exhibitions: the collections and exhibitions department acquires, preserves and maintains artifacts, documents, and materials that not only tell the story of the holocaust but also prevent others from falsifying its scope, magnitude, and significance; monitors the facilities to help preserve historical materials; and researches and develops exhibitions. The department coordinates all logistics and planning for the museum's own traveling exhibitions as well as the installation for those that travel to the museum from other institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -55.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $555K · 44 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.8M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 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: 12 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.