Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc
The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,900 to it, the largest being BARBARA AND FRED KORT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc does
Mission
Educate about the history of the Holocaust, seeking to remind citizens that prejudice, hatred, and violence, as manifested in the Holocaust and other genocides, leads to the destruction of a humane society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions - The Commission manages several exhibits. The most ambitious project for the state of Tennessee, entitled Living On: Portraits of Tennessee survivors and liberators, recorded stories and portraits of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and US Army personnel who liberated survivors or experienced the events of the Holocaust firsthand. What began as an intention to record biographical accounts for historical purposes became a rich, multifacted artistic and education model that has drawn audiences from across the state. Living on Now includes a museum exhibition, public programs, a teacher seminar and a variety of printed materials supplied to every venue, including teacher materials. The Commission also manages two other exhibits/ An exhibit entitled Perpetrators portrays the people who made Hitler possible and is designed to educate and provoke study and discussion. The Nelly Toll exhibit is a series of watercolor paintings based on the childhood memories of Nelly Toll who was 6 years old when the Nazis occupied Poland in September 1939.
$235,718 spent50% of program spendingCommunity Events - The Commission plans and hosts a variety of community events around the state and virtually. These include Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance) events, Survivor speakers, Library programming, and various educational webinars that are open to the public. These programs are either requested by an outside entity or created by staff and put on in locations and manners to provide Holocaust education to the community at large.
$95,716 spent20% of program spendingEducation Outreach Programs - These programs serve teachers and students in public, private, home-school, and parochial settings throughout the state. These programs include annual conferences in the three grand divisions of the state. These conferences are designed to introduce teachers and students to in-depth study on research focused topics regarding the Holocaust. Conferences include sessions with survivors who were eyewitnesses to this crisis in history or their children as well as training from staff historian or other experts in the field. These programs typically are requested by an outside educational entity. During 2025, the program supported 25 educators on an educational 8 day tour of Poland that included visiting Auschwitz, Treblinka and both Warsaw and Krakow Ghettos.
$64,639 spent14% of program spendingTeacher Resources and Lending Library - This education program provides classrooms with multimedia tools, including books, first-person testimonies, videos, maps, lesson plans, student activities, and reference materials about the Holocaust to public school systems as well as private schools and colleges in Tennessee. Upon request from the schools, resources and materials are loaned and shipped to the schools at no expense to the schools.
$62,818 spent13% of program spendingBelz-Lipman Award - This is an annual award presented to teacher participants in each of the three grand divisions of the state for excellence in teaching about the Holocaust.
$14,183 spent$24,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,074.
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 $1.1M to $3.3M (+190%).
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 74% · 2018 81% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 75% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% · 2024 87% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of The Tennessee Holocaust Commission 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. 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
Rabbi Mark Schiftan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $12k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc’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 Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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 Tennessee Holocaust Commission 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Tennessee Holocaust Commission 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 The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc?
- The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,900 to it, the largest being BARBARA AND FRED KORT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $209,900 in grants to The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc?
- BARBARA AND FRED KORT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 7 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