Arizona · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM
THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,709,872 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($979,104). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $716k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Jewish History Museum does
Mission
Educating about the holocaust and other genocides. Exploring the legacy of jewish experiences in southern arizona. Preserving the first synagogue built in the arizona territory. Collaborating with tucson's diverse community to promote human rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tucson jewish museum & holocaust center welcomed more than 7,600 visitors during this academic year. More than 2,900 of these visitors were students on docent-led field trips from 48 schools across southern arizona. Tjmhc also welcomed more than 1,800 individual visitors and members of non- academic groups on tours. Tjmhc presented monthly educational and cultural programs that engaged another 2,500 participants across the community. These included, the majority of which took place at tjmhc's rose & maurise silverman campus, near downtown tucson, included gallery chats, artistic presentations, a banned book club, author presentations, and the lakin lecture series on antisemitism.
$466,820 spent$11,843 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $466,820.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $1.6M (−7%).
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: 2021 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 held at 5 funders, grant income rose $176k → $292k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 63% · 2019 77% · 2020 59% · 2021 69% · 2022 75% · 2023 53% — 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
42% of THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM'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 $71k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE JEWISH HISTORY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Jewish Philanthropies of So Az · exempt
- Jewish Community Fndn of So Az · exempt
- Jewish Federation of So Az · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM?
- THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,709,872 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($979,104). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,709,872 in grants to THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $979,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 20 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