California · Nonprofit
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 840 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,586,297 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,747,100). 501 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 840
- Grants received
- $68M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc does
Mission
Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach, social action, public information, and education programs: the center confronts anti-semitism and hate, promotes human dignity, defends democracy and freedom, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for future generations through community involvement, educational outreach, and social action.
$11,224,594 spent47% of program spendingMuseum public programs: the center operates the museum of tolerance in los angeles open to the public that promotes tolerance & educates the public about the legacy of the holocaust and the dangers of hate and prejudice.
$8,420,721 spent$754,525 earned by the program35% of program spendingMuseum diversity training: the museum conducts diversity training courses for police officers, educators, and other professionals.
$3,768,961 spent$540,998 earned by the program16% of program spendingMoriah media, the award-winning film division of the simon wiesenthal center, is a dynamic media company focused on narrative film, television, digital content, and educational programming.
$579,798 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,994,074.
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 2024 to 2025, from $92M to $105M (+14%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 15% · 2019 13% · 2020 28% · 2021 41% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% · 2024 30% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC’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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 266 funders to 317 funders, grant income fell $7.1M → $6.5M.
70 of 840 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 840 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
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
49% 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 51% · 2020 13% · 2021 28% · 2022 12% · 2023 8% — 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
43% of SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $1.2M federal, $1.1M state.
- Department of Homeland Security$1.2M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$18k
- MA$875k
- NJ$175k
- FL$189
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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Swc Roxbury LLC · disregarded
- Swc Museum Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC?
- SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 840 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,586,297 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,747,100). 501 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 840 organizations giving $67,586,297 in grants to SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC, 501 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,747,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC 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.
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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 840 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