Texas Jewish Historical Society
Legal name: Texas Jewish Historical Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751693457
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Austin, TX, United States
- Phone
- 2814942668
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,629
- Expenses
- $72,905
- Assets
- $476,443
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHELDON LIPPMAN (PRESIDENT)
- JULES FRAPART (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JEFF LEVINE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT LANGSTON (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHELDON LIPPMAN (PRESIDENT)
- JULES FRAPART (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JEFF LEVINE (VICE-PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TJHS sponsors and promotes activities and projects to research, collect, preserve, publish, and disseminate information regarding the settlement and history of Jews in Texas—and their participation in its social, economic, religious, political, professional, and cultural growth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Texas jewish historial society, inc. Inaugurated a fundraising campaign to raise donations for the rabbi jimmy kessler educational outreach fund for providing a permanent grants program to honor the legacy of its founder and first president. The fund provides grants to jewish studies programs at Texas universities to support scholarly research and to individual researchers, authors, artists and others who offer outreach in an educational pursuit that shares the Texas jewish experience with a larger audience. The Texas jewish historical society inc. Established an archive at the dolph briscoe center for american history at the university of Texas in austin as a repository for photographs, manuscripts and other collectibles it has received since the Texas jewish historical society was established in 1980. We are now engaging interns to assist with digitizing and organizing the Texas jewish historical society inc. Collection (800-1,000 items) to be incorporated into the briscoe center's digital collections for online use by researchers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.4%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.54; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 36.4% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.