Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,733,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($670,432). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum does
Mission
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum explores the Jewish experience in the national capital region to inspire visitors to Connect personally and collectively, Reflect on the relevance of the past to today, and Act on behalf of their communities and values. The Capital Jewish Museum (CJM) explores the past, present and future of Jewish life in the nation's capital to inspire audiences to connect, reflect and act: connect across families and diverse cultures, reflect on the relevance of history to today, and act on behalf of their communities and values. The CJM was incorporated in 1965 as the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving local Jewish history. In 1969, the JHSGW saved the city's oldest synagogue by moving it to the corner of Third & G Streets, NW, where it was restored and opened to the public and used for exhibits and educational programs. In 2018, the JHSGW adopted the new name of the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in preparation to build and launch a new public museum. In January 2019, the CJM moved the historic synagogue to the corner of Third & F Streets, where it will become the centerpiece…
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Museum Collections & Exhibitions: Our exhibitions explore the continuing project of building community at the intersection of American democracy and the American Jewish experience in the nation's capital. The interactive core exhibition gives a Jewish context to complex issues relevant to our democracy and encourages visitors to examine multiple perspectives and find ways to take action in their own lives. The Museum opened its doors to the public in June 2023, moving from a capital campaign to a fully operational museum. The museum built out many of its core exhibits in the construction process. The initial opening special exhibit was entitled, The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This exhibit reflected RBG's remarkable career and incorporated her role and impact in Washington, DC and our country.
$1,490,586 spent58% of program spendingPublic & Educational Programs: We engage Jewish and non-Jewish adults, families, schools, and students in programs and events throughout the region, including walking tours, panel discussions, school visits, community-building events, lectures, and workshops.
$743,706 spent$116,562 earned by the program29% of program spendingCommunications: We continue to increase communication about the core and special exhibitions, public and educational programming at the Museum, and additional information launched a new website with expanded content and implemented new communication strategies to further expand our audience.
$356,271 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,590,563.
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 2022 to 2023, from $36M to $43M (+21%).
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 2% · 2021 23% · 2022 7% · 2023 20% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum’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. 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $124k → $792k.
11 of 95 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum raised.
From the IRS filings of Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 13% · 2020 18% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 15% — 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
41% of Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Against its field
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum 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 Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $280k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$280k
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 Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: 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 Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum?
- Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,733,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($670,432). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $5,733,890 in grants to Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $670,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 95 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