The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205090993
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Phone
5134873055
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
History Museums

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,915,771
Expenses
$4,313,705
Assets
$32,862,327
Liabilities
$2,350,090

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

48 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David Wise (CEO - Exit 08/24 start-Consultant)
  • Jacqueline Baker (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jacqueline Baker (CEO): $189,908 total reported compensation
  • David Wise (CEO - Exit 08/24 start-Consultant): $186,332 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (HHC) exists to ensure the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. HHC educates about the Holocaust, remembers its victims and acts on its lessons. Through innovative programs and partnerships, HHC challenges injustice, inhumanity and prejudice, and fosters understanding, inclusion and engaged citizenship.

What it reported doing in 2024

Collections & Exhibitions: The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center's exhibits and collections combine powerful storytelling with authentic artifacts to connect Holocaust history to present-day action. The museum's permanent exhibits immerse visitors in survivor experiences-especially those who rebuilt their lives in Cincinnati-through interactive technology, personal narratives, and meaningful objects that highlight resilience, loss, and moral courage. Visitors also focus on what it means to be an upstander today by reflecting on their own choices and capacity to act. In addition, HHC periodically features temporary and traveling exhibits that bring these stories and themes to broader audiences beyond the museum walls. Complementing these exhibits, the Permanent Collection preserves an extensive collection of artifacts, archival materials, and recorded testimonies rooted in local eyewitness experiences of the Holocaust and WWII. This growing collection supports Holocaust education and research while ensuring individual stories are safeguarded for future generations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 84
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.9%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $46.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 74.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.62; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.9% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 40 of 40 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 48 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $159K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 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: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.