Texas · Nonprofit
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750,204 to it, the largest being THE LESTER AND SUE SMITH FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 160
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Holocaust Museum Houston does
Mission
Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating about the holocaust, remembering the 6 million jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using lessons of the holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions - Holocaust Museum Houston's permanent exhibit, "bearing witness: a community remembers" is personalized with testimony of holocaust survivors who later settled in the houston area. The gallery features artifacts donated by holocaust survivors, their descendants, liberators, and other collectors and was expanded to incorporate two of the museum's most important artifacts, the world war ii-era railcar and the 1940's danish rescue boat. The museum has three additional permanent exhibitions: the lester and sue smith human rights gallery, the rhona and bruce caress gallery and still I write: young diarists on war and genocide, and "the samuel bak gallery & learning center" in memory of hope silber kaplan. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the museum hosted eight temporary exhibits (cont'd on sch o) including "ilan ramon: a life and legacy" honoring his legacy from his family's experience in auschwitz to his soaring achievements in the israeli air force and nasa and "facing survival" featuring the masterful paintings and drawings of acclaimed artist david kassan, capturing the poignant stories and portraits of holocaust survivors.
$2,403,499 spent$292,596 earned by the program52% of program spendingEducation Holocaust Museum Houston reached over 22,900 students and 750 teachers using a variety of bilingual educational programs to support holocaust instruction in k-12 classrooms. The museum developed a corps of educators to effectively teach about the holocaust and other genocides by hosting various fellowships where eminent scholars provide historical and academic content while university faculty, as well as museum staff, provide pedagogical context. Through the educator in motion (eim) program, museum staff travel to schools or conduct long-distance video learning sessions to deliver interactive lessons that incorporate social studies, language arts and fine arts concepts to support student engagement, enhance content knowledge and comprehension, and promote the development of (cont'd on sch o) individual and civic responsibility. Eim was delivered in english and spanish through 442 sessions in 28 school districts including 64 schools. The engines of change (eoc) student ambassador program introduces houston-area high school students to holocaust history and enables them to better understand current issues and to develop their own informed opinions and voices about the…
$1,134,258 spent24% of program spendingPublic programming Holocaust Museum Houston reached nearly 8,000 community members through educational programming such as lectures, panel discussions, film viewings, workshops, and professional trainings. Programs included a lecture by amir tibon sharing his story of how he and his family were rescued on october 7, 2023; holocaust survivor talks; and film screening of "black raven" about the genocidal campaign in early 1930's soviet ukraine. Holocaust Museum Houston also offers programming to educate community members on the holocaust and its relevancy in the world today. These specialized programs include a full-day training for law enforcement officers and workshops for girl scout troops.
$1,125,039 spent$25,728 earned by the program24% of program spendingHolocaust Museum Houston library services provides bilingual research materials serving the needs of students and researchers of all ages. The collection houses over 10,000 items relating to the holocaust, human rights, and genocide. The library also provides access to nearly 300 oral testimonies. These primary-source video interview tell the stories of people who experienced the holocaust, including survivors, liberators, and witnesses.Holocaust Museum Houston visitor and volunteer services trains volunteers and docents to enhance the visitor's experience using their knowledge of the galleries and exhibition content. They stand as museum ambassadors teaching how each of us can emulate upstander behavior.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,662,796.
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 2018 to 2019, from $41M to $54M (+33%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Linda Burger
Interim CEO
Board chair
Elyse Spector Kalmans
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.3M.
18 of 160 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $11M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Holocaust Museum Houston Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON raised.
From the IRS filings of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 160 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 MUSEUM HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 26% · 2019 48% · 2020 56% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
93% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 MUSEUM HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Holocaust Museum Houston Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON?
- HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,750,204 to it, the largest being THE LESTER AND SUE SMITH FOUNDATION ($5,000,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 160 organizations giving $23,750,204 in grants to HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON?
- THE LESTER AND SUE SMITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 160 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