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WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY

WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,550 to it, the largest being LISA & DOUGLAS GOLDMAN FUND ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$14k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Western States Jewish History does

Mission

Education. The organization accumulates, prepares and publishes material of historical interest to contributors, academics and others.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Maintained, edited and updated material on website (Jewish Museum of the American West). Published Journal.

    $13,645 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,645.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($20k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2018 Revenue 51 ($10k) Expenses 99 ($20k) Net assets 79 ($36k)2021 Revenue 35 ($7k) Expenses 5 ($1k) Net assets 29 ($13k)2022 Revenue 44 ($9k) Expenses 7 ($1k) Net assets 45 ($20k)2023 Revenue 24 ($5k) Expenses 4 ($726) Net assets 54 ($24k)2024 Revenue 15 ($3k) Expenses 12 ($2k) Net assets 55 ($25k)2025 Revenue 16 ($3k) Expenses 68 ($14k) Net assets 32 ($14k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (16)Expenses (68)Net assets (32)Peer revenue range

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 $25k to $14k (−42%).

$45k
$36k
$13k
$20k
$24k
$25k
$14k
2017201820212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$449
’17
−$10k
’18
$6k
’21
$7k
’22
$4k
’23
$555
’24
−$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $250.

From the IRS filings of WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY’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

WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

97% of WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY's revenue fell 84% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−345% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY: 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 WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY?
WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,550 to it, the largest being LISA & DOUGLAS GOLDMAN FUND ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,550 in grants to WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY?
LISA & DOUGLAS GOLDMAN FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY 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 3 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