Ohio · Nonprofit
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,037,195 to it, the largest being THE ROCKWERN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($550,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $31M
What The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education does
Mission
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (HHC) exists to ensure the lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. HHC educates about the Holocaust, remembers its victims and acts on its lessons. Through innovative programs and partnerships, HHC challenges injustice, inhumanity and prejudice, and fosters understanding, inclusion and engaged citizenship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections & Exhibitions: The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center's exhibits and collections combine powerful storytelling with authentic artifacts to connect Holocaust history to present-day action. The museum's permanent exhibits immerse visitors in survivor experiences-especially those who rebuilt their lives in Cincinnati-through interactive technology, personal narratives, and meaningful objects that highlight resilience, loss, and moral courage. Visitors also focus on what it means to be an upstander today by reflecting on their own choices and capacity to act. In addition, HHC periodically features temporary and traveling exhibits that bring these stories and themes to broader audiences beyond the museum walls. Complementing these exhibits, the Permanent Collection preserves an extensive collection of artifacts, archival materials, and recorded testimonies rooted in local eyewitness experiences of the Holocaust and WWII. This growing collection supports Holocaust education and research while ensuring individual stories are safeguarded for future generations.
$1,637,209 spent$107,557 earned by the program46% of program spendingHolocaust Education: Through student field trips, educator trainings, and public programming, the Holocaust & Humanity Center educates audiences about the Holocaust and its enduring lessons. HHC serves nearly 16,000 students annually through field trips, youth programs, and the Coppel Speakers Bureau. In addition, hundreds of educators participate in the Center's professional development programs, which promote best practices in Holocaust education and equip teachers with the tools they need to effectively teach this history. Finally, through Holocaust awareness initiatives, the Center reaches the broader public by hosting scholarly lectures, gallery talks with Holocaust survivors, and community commemorations such as Yom HaShoah and Kristallnacht.
$863,172 spent$60,221 earned by the program24% of program spendingHumanity Education Initiatives: Building on the lessons of the Holocaust, the Holocaust & Humanity Center's upstander education initiatives empower individuals to harness their unique character strengths and become upstanders in their communities today. Through interactive workshops and professional learning experiences, the Center partners with corporate, civic, and nonprofit organizations to build strengths-based cultures of upstanders. The Center also brings this work to the broader community through Upstander Month, a dynamic series of public programs that inspire action. A cornerstone of this month is the Upstander Awards & Gala, held annually to celebrate the legacy of Cincinnati's Holocaust survivors while honoring local heroes whose courage, compassion, and leadership embody the spirit of upstanding.
$854,186 spent$150,067 earned by the program24% of program spendingHolocaust & Humanity Center offers a wide array of programs connected to our mission including a robust archival and collections initiative, early childhood programs and humanity programming.
$171,120 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,525,687.
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 $18M to $33M (+87%).
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 5% · 2021 22% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Nancy Frank
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $98k → $279k.
12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $21M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Cincinnati). These are real filings, and they are not money The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education raised.
From the IRS filings of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
28% 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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 25% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 36% — 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
38% of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
92% of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $765k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.0M
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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: 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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education?
- The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,037,195 to it, the largest being THE ROCKWERN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($550,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,037,195 in grants to The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education?
- THE ROCKWERN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 54 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing