Nonprofit · EIN 62-1649210
TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC
Tax-exempt · NASHVILLE, TN 37205
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 990 | $2,841,891 | $668,476 | $2,173,415 | $3,331,786 | $3,749 | $3,328,037 |
| June 30, 2024 | 990 | $472,432 | $446,861 | $25,571 | $1,148,674 | $1,043 | $1,147,631 |
| June 30, 2023 | 990 | $629,458 | $546,096 | $83,362 | $1,100,345 | $3,959 | $1,096,386 |
| June 30, 2022 | 990 | $455,041 | $299,476 | $155,565 | $1,028,785 | $14,611 | $1,014,174 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $2,820,356
- of which government grants
- $685,000
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $21,535
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $4,749
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $84,000
- Other salaries and wages
- $225,705
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $309,705
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $32,222
- Occupancy
- $7,762
- Travel
- $33,971
- Program services (functional)
- $473,074
- Management and general (functional)
- $195,402
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,148,674
- Total assets, end of year
- $3,331,786
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $3,749
- Net assets, end of year
- $3,328,037
- Publicly traded securities
- $710,380
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $3,250,267
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $77,770
- Gross receipts
- $2,841,891
- Employees
- 4
- Year formed
- 1996
- State of legal domicile
- TN
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Trachtman | Executive Dir. Trustee or director | 40 | $84,000 |
| Billy Orgel | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jack Belz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Lewis Reich | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Adam Exelbird | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jan Groveman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Katherine High | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Adler Thorp | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Alison Lebovitz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Lipman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Frederica Saharovici | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rabbi Mark Schiftan | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds | Comm of Ed Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rep Mark White | TN Rep Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| E Thomas Wood | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2024: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Schiftan | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Jack Belz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Billy Orgel | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Adam Exelbird | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jan Groveman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Katherine High | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Adler Thorp | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Alyssa Trachtman | Executive Dir. Trustee or director | 40 | $0 |
| Alison Lebovitz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Lipman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Frederica Saharovici | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jon Lundberg | TN Senator Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lewis Reich | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rep Mark White | TN Rep Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| E Thomas Wood | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2023: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Leibowitz | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Jack Belz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Annette Eskind | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Adam Exelbird | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jan Groveman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Katherine High | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Aileen Katcher | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Alison Lebovitz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Lipman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Frederica Saharovici | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rabbi Mark Schiftan | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Penny Schwinn | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jon Lundberg | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rep Mark White | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| E Thomas Wood | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended June 30, 2022: 17 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Leibowitz | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Jack Belz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Annette Eskind | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Adam Exelbird | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jan Groveman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Katherine High | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Aileen Katcher | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Sen Brian Kelsey | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Gus Kuhn | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Alison Lebovitz | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Josh Lipman | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Frederica Saharovici | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rabbi Mark Schiftan | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Dr Penny Schwinn | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Ronnie Stein | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Rep Mark White | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| E Thomas Wood | Commissioner Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 5015 HARDING PIKE, NASHVILLE, TN 37205-2801
- In care of
- % VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Rabbi Mark Schiftan, PO Box 59252, Nashville, TN 37205
- Signed the 990
- Mark Schiftan, Chairman
- Phone
- (615) 527-8114
- Return prepared by
- Cooper Travis & Company PLC
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.
Program accomplishments
- 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.Expenses $235,718
- Community 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.Expenses $95,716
- Education 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.Expenses $64,639
- Teacher 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.Expenses $62,818
- Belz-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.Expenses $14,183 · revenue $24,000
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in June, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 30, 2026 | November 16, 2026 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | June 30, 2025 | November 17, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | June 30, 2024 | November 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 62-1649210
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1998
- Accounting year ends
- June
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A82Z)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $3,331,786
- Income (IRS master file)
- $2,841,891
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | June 2025 | $2,841,891 | $668,476 | $3,331,786 | XML |
| 990 | June 2024 | $472,432 | $446,861 | $1,148,674 | IRS |
| 990 | June 2023 | $629,458 | $546,096 | $1,100,345 | XML |
| 990 | June 2022 | $455,041 | $299,476 | $1,028,785 | XML |
| 990 | June 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | June 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 62-1649210).
Questions about TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC
- What is the EIN of TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC is 62-1649210.
- Is TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1998.
- Are donations to TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending June 30, 2026) is due November 16, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended June 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 names Rabbi Mark Schiftan.
- Who are the officers and directors of TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC?
- The 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 lists 15 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $84,000 (Alyssa Trachtman, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended June 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $2,841,891, expenses of $668,476 and total assets of $3,331,786 at year end.
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