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THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,308,193 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($390,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
Teach the lessons of the holocaust to inspire action against hatred and to promote mutual respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The holocaust museum & cohen education center was founded in 2001 and continues to serve the community through its student and teacher education programs, public programs and exhibits. The museum has established itself as a source of unique, high quality education for the southwest florida community and has impacted over 500,000 people, from students and teachers to the general public. The museum receives rave reviews on tripadvisor and guest comment cards. These achievements speak volumes about our staff and volunteers and the service we provide to the community. Our goal is that students and visitors understand the dangers of indifference and will be inspired to take action against hatred and to promote mutual respect. During the year our programs and included: 1.exhibits - in addition to our permanent collection in our new museum, we offer several temporary exhibits during the year either from our own archives or traveling exhibits offered by other museums and centers. Our holocaust-era boxcar, on loan from the boxcar foundation and jack and f.e. Nortman, remains an invaluable educational tool to support the museum's mission. Expense: 593,470 revenue: 44,426
$445,102 spent$44,426 earned by the program37% of program spending2.student & teacher programs - the museum provides educational programs for more than 40,000 students and teachers in southwest florida, elementary through university. Our educational program offers a variety of lessons for students in grades 5 through 12, including in-school programs, field trips to the museum and our popup museum. Programs are offered free of charge for title 1 schools and schools that have a financial hardship. Survivor talks at school assemblies provide powerful personal stories that engage students and adults alike. We also offer one original short play based on the stories of local holocaust survivors and created in partnership with gulfshore playhouse. The performance of the play is preceded by a classroom session on the overall history of the holocaust and the specific history of the survivor so that the students understand the context of the play before seeing it. Our curriculum catalog offers 10 different programs for teachers to choose from, with lesson plans linked to sunshine state standards. Expense: 593,469
$445,102 spent37% of program spending3.adult/public programs and genshoah - the museum continues its partnership with genshoah of southwest florida to present a full calendar of quality programs to our community including films, guest speakers, and more. We also offer educational programs enhanced with traveling displays of artifacts to groups at libraries and other locations throughout southwest florida.
$296,735 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,186,939.
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 2017 to 2018, from $486k to $4.0M (+713%).
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 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 6% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Board chair
Stuart Mest
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $40k → $408k.
15 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $399k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Naples Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
70% 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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 38% · 2020 15% · 2021 31% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
65% of THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $810k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,308,193 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($390,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,308,193 in grants to THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 42 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