New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum

What it reported doing in 2025

During the period 7/1/2025-6/30/2026, we gave tours to 23 school groups with a total of over 700 students/teachers/chaperones. We were also visited by 8 other tour groups with a total of over 190 visitors. In addition to these groups, we registered over 1100 other visitors from all over the world. International guests came from Mexico, Germany, Hungary, Austria, China, Scotland, Britain, Canada, and France. 41 states across the U.S. were represented in our visitor count. In New Mexico, the bulk of our guests came from Bernalillo County, but we also saw travelers from 13 other counties: San Juan, Taos, Colfax, Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Cibola, Valencia, Socorro, Sierra, Grant, Doa Ana, and Otero.Exhibit openingsAmerican Dream, American Nightmare-researched, developed, and designed by high school students at New America Charter School as part of NMHIMs student exhibit design program, this exhibit takes a close look at Japanese and Japanese-American incarceration in New Mexico. While many are aware that hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Japanese-American people (many of whom were U.S. citizens) were interned in camps during World War II, few know three such camps existed here in New Mexico. This exhibit opened in the museum to the public on December 18, 2025. Evidence of Life: Revived Through the Archives-curated by students from the UNM Honors College, this exhibit examines personal stories and experiences of people who lived during the Holocaust. The exhibit uses primary source materials from the Yavneh Klos and NMHIM collections. This exhibit is curated, researched, designed and developed by students of the class and was first displayed at Congregation Alberts annual Yom HaShoah service on April 13, 2026. The service was attended by around forty participants. The exhibit was subsequently installed in the museum on May 9, 2026 where close to thirty visitors attended the opening reception. Removal & Resilience-focuses on the displacement and forced removal of Indigenous tribes in the United States and New Mexico. This exhibit was created as part of NMHIMs student exhibit design program. Students at Technology Leadership High School worked with museum staff to develop this insightful exhibit about The Trail of Tears and The Long Walk and how Indigenous communities demonstrated great resistance and resilience amidst devastating forced removals. This exhibit opened in the museum to the public on May 2, 2026.Other programs June 14- Author talk by Jane Ziegelman, director of the culinary program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in NYC. She spoke about her most recent book, Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World. Through the lens of Yizkor Books, memorials to specific destroyed Jewish towns and communities written by their survivors, Ziegelman explores the rich cultural, religious, and social history of Eastern European Jewish life before the Holocaust. The event was held at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial and was attended by approximately 26 people. On June 20, 2026, NMHIM hosted our first Holocaust survivor and survivor descendant get-together. This informal gathering offered community members an opportunity to connect with others of a similar background. The event attracted close to a dozen survivors and descendants and set the stage for ongoing survivor focused events. Legislative Visits August 13 2025- Dahveed Torres-Avila (Heinrich field rep) October 7 2025- Rep Garratt and Lien-Shin Wang OffermannFebruary 18 2026- Melanie Stansbury visit Professional DevelopmentsAugust 16 2025- From Routes to Roots. This PD provided teachers with both historical context and practical tools to help students understand the significance of immigration in shaping our countrys past and present. Staff presented an overview of immigration history from the 17th century through to the 21st, with an emphasis on how new restrictive immigration laws prevented Jewish refugees from fleeing Germany and Austria in the l

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
• Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
• Fundraising efficiency: $26.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 33.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings