diff --git a/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/components/CredentialsSection.tsx b/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/components/CredentialsSection.tsx
index 72f5a2e79b..54089d40ba 100644
--- a/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/components/CredentialsSection.tsx
+++ b/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/components/CredentialsSection.tsx
@@ -75,16 +75,20 @@ const CredentialsSection: React.FC<CredentialsSectionProps> = ({
 
   const organizationHelperTxtNode =
     isOrganizationTouched && !isOrganizationValid ? (
-      <>
-        <FormHelperText>
-          <HelperText>
-            <HelperTextItem variant="error" data-testid="organization-error">
-              {VALIDATION_MESSAGES.ORGANIZATION_REQUIRED}
-            </HelperTextItem>
-          </HelperText>
-        </FormHelperText>
-      </>
-    ) : undefined;
+      <FormHelperText>
+        <HelperText>
+          <HelperTextItem variant="error" data-testid="organization-error">
+            {VALIDATION_MESSAGES.ORGANIZATION_REQUIRED}
+          </HelperTextItem>
+        </HelperText>
+      </FormHelperText>
+    ) : (
+      <FormHelperText>
+        <HelperText>
+          <HelperTextItem>{HELP_TEXT.ORGANIZATION_HELP_TEXT}</HelperTextItem>
+        </HelperText>
+      </FormHelperText>
+    );
 
   const organizationFormGroup = (
     <ThemeAwareFormGroupWrapper
diff --git a/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/constants.tsx b/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/constants.tsx
index b65034b73b..24a156b942 100644
--- a/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/constants.tsx
+++ b/packages/model-registry/upstream/frontend/src/app/pages/modelCatalogSettings/constants.tsx
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ export const HELP_TEXT = {
     'Enter your fine-grained Hugging Face access token. Public models can be pulled into catalog without an access token. For private/gated models, a token is recommended to ensure full metadata is displayed, otherwise only limited metadata may be available. The token must have the following permissions: read repos in your namespace, read public repos that you can access.',
   ORGANIZATION:
     'Enter the name of the organization (for example, meta-llama) to sync models from. Hugging Face sources are limited to 1 organization to prevent performance issues related to loading large model sets.',
+  ORGANIZATION_HELP_TEXT:
+    "Hugging Face organization's name is case-sensitive and match the organization's URL, which may differ from the displayed name. Use the organization's URL slug found in the URL (e.g., Input: meta-llama from huggingface.co/meta-llama).",
   YAML: 'Upload or paste a YAML string.',
 } as const;