Michigan · Nonprofit
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,222,276 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($2,000,000). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Holocaust Memorial Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the holocaust memorial center, known as the zekelman holocaust center (the hc) is to engage, educate and empower by remembering the holocaust.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2023, we had 47,000 visitors who learned about the holocaust through our exhibits. Of these, 30,000 were students and adults who visited the hc with their schools, companies or community groups and were educated through guided tours and presentations by holocaust survivors or children of holocaust survivors. 8,000 others toured the hc with their families or made use of our library archive. These visitors came from throughout the state, as well as many from ohio, indiana, and ontario, and from almost every one of the 50 states. They reflected the diverse racial and religious composition of our region.
$2,561,153 spent60% of program spendingWe operated our statewide educational outreach program in response to the state mandate that public schools provide six hours of holocaust and genocide education to students in grades 8-12. Since 2018, 7,000 teachers have participated in our holocaust education training seminars for middle and high school teachers. This year, 600 teachers representing 40 michigan counties received training. In total, these educators reached 655,000 students during the 2023-24 school year. Our outreach empowers teachers to use the lessons of the holocaust to help students understand the dangers of unchecked hatred, and to learn that their individual choices matter.
$1,066,854 spent25% of program spendingWe presented a wide array of public programs on evenings and weekends featuring movies, lectures, author presentations, and talks by holocaust survivors. Topics covered in our 2023 programs included women in the holocaust, the story of a holocaust survivor who became a wall street legend, holocaust memorials in europe, germany's response to contemporary genocides, a musical program memorializing a victim of the holocaust, and a cooking demostration of recipes from a holocaust survivor. Some programs were held virtually, reaching thousands of people from around the world, and others were in-person or hybrid, reaching another 3,000 people in- person.
$640,583 spent15% of program spendingIn 2023, we presented two special exhibits. "to paint is to live: the artwork of erich lichtblau-leskly," explored the life and work of czech jewish artist erich lichtblau-leskly, who used art and satire as tools of adaptation and resistance while imprisoned in the theresienstadt ghetto- concentration camp. The second exhibit, also displayed in our special exhibit gallery, was a summary of our new core permanent exhibit. During summer and fall 2023, our core permanent exhibit underwent a complete renovation. During this period, visitors had the opportunity to tour a special exhibit we curated that told the story of the holocaust and its lessons in a condensed setting. In response to the toxic uptick in antisemitic activity on u.s. College campuses following the october 7, 2023 attack by hamas on israel, we launched our statewide college and university initiative in fall 2023. Its goal is to educate students and faculty on campuses across the state about the lessons of the holocaust, fostering a safe and inclusive learning environment. Holocaust education is a provent bulwark against antisemitism, as it significantly tracks with reduced belief in antisemitic tropes.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,268,590.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $47M (+65%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 23% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld
CEO
Board chair
Steven D Grant
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $480k → $1.9M.
8 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.4M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Jewish Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 funders by total. 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
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 61% · 2019 52% · 2020 27% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 18% — 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
52% of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.6M
- Department of Education$1.2M
- Department of Justice$1.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$270k
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.
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC?
- HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC (Michigan) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,222,276 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($2,000,000). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $13,222,276 in grants to HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC?
- William Davidson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 146 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing