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AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES

AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,848,720 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,845,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.4M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$8.8M
Net assets
$1.6M
16/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities does

Mission

The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. We aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of preventing genocide and mass atrocities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Executive office program:at the auschwitz institute, the executive office serves as the central hub for programmatic development, oversight, and general organizational operations for the entire organization. It provides support and supervision to aipg's other thematic and regional programs, as well as develops its own programming, particularly in regions not covered by existing programs. This includes, for example, training and technical assistance on atrocity prevention and migration issues in southeast asia, war crimes prevention, training and support for the documentation of atrocity crimes in ukraine, as well as producing relevant and applicable research for prevention.

    $1,285,891 spent$4,576,286 earned by the program
    49% of program spending
  2. Research and development online education program (rdoe): the online education program offers virtual atrocity prevention training to government officials and civil society stakeholders around the world. Rdoe offers courses in english, spanish, french, portuguese, romanian, german, bosnian-croatian-montenegrin-serbian (bcms), and thai in thirteen different thematic areas. These trainings also provide the opportunity for alumni of other aipg programs to expand their capacities for prevention with online modules that specifically reflect the realities of these regions. As of december 2022, the online education program has more than 2300 alumni from 59 countries around the world. In addition to this global programming, the rdoe also leads the redefining policing to affirm and instill human rights (repair) project which strengthens the capacity of local police officers across the united states to protect and promote civil and human rights. This project is organized in cooperation with the national center for civil and human rights of atlanta.

    $346,390 spent$231,404 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  3. Mediterranean basin program (mbp):through its mediterranean basin program (mbp), the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (aipg) provides education, specialized training, and technical assistance to policymakers, civil society leaders, and academic experts throughout southeastern europe. Coordinated from bucharest, romania, aipg's activities in this region are carefully designed to equip participants with the necessary knowledge, tools, and networking capacities to develop and implement effective strategies and policies for preventing identity-based violence.the global raphael lemkin seminar for genocide prevention, which is organized by aipg's mbp, is one of the organization's main pillars of work. The seminar is organized in partnership with the auschwitz-birkenau state museum and the un's joint office of special advisers on genocide prevention and the responsibility to protect. Each week-long program brings together twenty to twenty-five government officials from at least fifteen states ranging from at-risk, in-crisis, and post-conflict states, to donor countries and those currently inactive in the international human rights arena. The seminar…

    $390,173 spent$244,825 earned by the program
    15% of program spending
  4. Africa program office (apo):through its africa programs office, the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (aipg) designs and delivers an array of training and capacity-building programs that familiarize african state officials and civil society leaders with the necessary knowledge and skills to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. Aipg believes that the development and implementation of effective preventive mechanisms will sustainably curb future conflict across the african continent. To this end, aipg's apo works directly with governments to develop and implement prevention projects at regional, national, and community levels and is instrumental in encouraging and facilitating the cooperation of states through regional and international networks to advance prevention. The goal of aipg's africa programs office is to provide in-depth genocide and mass atrocity prevention education, training, and technical assistance that reflects the latest concepts and strategies developed by authorities in the field. The apo accomplishes this by organizing in-person and virtual seminars, and by producing tools, such as resource manuals, to familiarize…

    $592,856 spent$324,203 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,615,310.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($466k)2019 Revenue 148 ($2.9M) Expenses 138 ($3.0M) Net assets 39 ($180k)2020 Revenue 125 ($2.5M) Expenses 97 ($2.1M) Net assets 121 ($565k)2021 Revenue 145 ($2.9M) Expenses 139 ($3.0M) Net assets 90 ($421k)2022 Revenue 151 ($3.0M) Expenses 147 ($3.2M) Net assets 46 ($215k)2023 Revenue 149 ($2.9M) Expenses 176 ($3.8M) Net assets -141 ($-658182)2024 Revenue 273 ($5.4M) Expenses 147 ($3.2M) Net assets 340 ($1.6M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (273)Expenses (147)Net assets (340)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $118k to $2.5M (+2027%).

$476k
$272k
$573k
$428k
$734k
$118k
$2.5M
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$193k
’17
−$61k
’19
$378k
’20
−$144k
’21
−$206k
’22
−$873k
’23
$2.2M
’24
0.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Tibi Galis

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed891011111110
Joined··+2+2+0+0+1
No longer listed··11002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.4M.

9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2020 46% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

59% of AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.

NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
DE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52k on record.

Federal$52k
grants $17kcontracts $35k
Top agencies
  • Department of State$52k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Instytut Auschwitz Ne Rzecz Pokpju I · exempt
  • The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Re · exempt
  • The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Re · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES?
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,848,720 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,845,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $8,848,720 in grants to AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES?
WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,845,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing