Nebraska Jewish Historical Society
Legal name: Nebraska Jewish Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431271156
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Phone
- (402) 334-6442
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $222,675
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN JUSTMAN (PRESIDENT)
- BETH STAENBERG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BOB BELGRADE (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BEN JUSTMAN (PRESIDENT)
- BETH STAENBERG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEANNETTE GABRIEL (TREASURER)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Nebraska Jewish Historical Society was founded in 1982 by Mary Arbitman Fellman and Oliver Pollak to collect, publish and display materials which pertain to the family, business and social histories of the Jewish Community of Nebraska and Council Bluffs. The NJHS is an agency of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. OUR MISSION The Mission of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society is to preserve the histories of the Jewish families who settled in Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
What it reported doing in 2023
Acquisition and cataloging of archival material for participation in conferences, community educational programs, museum projects, and other educational and cultural related activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- 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: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.