Teach the Shoah Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Holocaust Education
- Income
- $79,492
- Spending
- $106,911
- Reserves
- -0.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 81%
- Highest pay
- $5,209, board of directors, contract facilitator
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $13,067 spent. Speaker Training: Training people of all ages, generations, and backgrounds to share authentic, historically-grounded, testimony-based stories of the Holocaust. We have trained more than 140 storytellers, many of whom are out in their communities, sharing their stories. We trained 34 new storytellers in 2025.
- $34,198 spent. From Survivor Memory to Living Teller: Connecting young adults (ages 18-30) to living survivors to interview the survivors and learn to tell their stories. These tellers promise to tell these stories throughout their lives. In 2024 and 2025, 13 students became keepers of memory for 10 different survivors.
- $26,916 spent. Public Outreach: Presenting free Holocaust education and commemoration programs to the general public as well as in schools and other organizations. In 2025, we presented 20 free online or in-person programs, as well as bringing storytellers into schools across the country.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2018.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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