California · Nonprofit
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA (California) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266,957 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,972,975). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 186
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Holocaust Museum La does
Mission
Holocaust Museum La (hmla) teaches the critical lessons of the holocaust and their continued relevance today, building empathy, and empowering students and visitors to speak out and stand up against antisemitism, bigotry, and hatred.founded in 1961, hmla is the first survivor-founded and oldest holocaust museum in the united states and home to the west coast's largest collection of holocaust-era artifacts and testimonies.hmla activates its unique collection through engaging tours, exhibits, educational programs, community programs, and intergenerational conversations with holocaust survivors, reaching audiences worldwide.hmla is free for all students and youth 17 and younger and cover bus transportation for title 1 schools. The museum is open seven days a week.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Public visitors: the museum's core exhibit, which is artifact rich and laid out chronologically across eight galleries, placing the events of the holocaust within a historical and socially relevant context that enables public visitors to have a cumulative experience over time. Public visitors are welcomed at the museum 360 days a year. Public visitors: 26,847the museum hosts public programs throughout the year, including talks, concerts, film screenings, staged readings, holocaust survivor talks, and exhibition openings. Public programs seeks to engage audiences in the social relevance of the holocaust, inspire hope, empathy, and understanding, and build community aimed at creating a more humane world. Public programs: 3,036 student tours docent led tours are the cornerstone of the museum's education programs and invite students in grades 4-12 to explore primary sources, encounter and analyze history, and participate in an intergenerational conversation with a holocaust survivor, who shares their compelling testimony with the students and discusses the importance of oral history, resiliency, and treating people with dignity and respect. Most of the volunteer docents are past…
$4,763,858 spent$86,388 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,763,858.
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 2021 to 2022, from $37M to $48M (+28%).
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 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Guy Lipa
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $8.9M.
22 of 186 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 186 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 LA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
51% 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 LA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 38% · 2019 34% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 40% · 2023 23% — 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
47% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
90% of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 LA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA?
- HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA (California) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,266,957 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,972,975). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA have?
- IRS filings report 186 organizations giving $36,266,957 in grants to HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,972,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 186 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