Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center
Legal name: The Jewish History Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860762311
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, United States
- Phone
- (520) 670-9073
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $715,848
- Expenses
- $759,997
- Assets
- $1,533,011
- Liabilities
- $22,233
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON GLASSBERG (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LORI SHEPHERD (EXECUTIVE DI): $111,702 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Using history to build a more just tomorrow. Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center Educates** about the Holocaust and other genocides. The Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center is located in Barrio Viejo, an historic neighborhood on the southern edge of downtown Tucson. The museum features the first synagogue built in the Arizona Territory (1910) and a Holocaust History Center. Through educational and community outreach, exhibitions, and public programs, the museum explores the histories and contemporary experiences of Jewish people in Southern Arizona and purposefully places them in conversation with the experiences of other traditionally marginalized communities. The Holocaust Center presents the Holocaust through the life experiences of more than 270 Holocaust survivors who both survived Nazi persecution and later live.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tucson jewish museum & holocaust center welcomed more than 7,600 visitors during this academic year. More than 2,900 of these visitors were students on docent-led field trips from 48 schools across southern Arizona. Tjmhc also welcomed more than 1,800 individual visitors and members of non- academic groups on tours. Tjmhc presented monthly educational and cultural programs that engaged another 2,500 participants across the community. These included, the majority of which took place at tjmhc's rose & maurise silverman campus, near downtown tucson, included gallery chats, artistic presentations, a banned book club, author presentations, and the lakin lecture series on antisemitism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $467K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.