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Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

The ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA (awsna) is an association of independent waldorf schools and teacher education institutes. Awsna's mission is to strengthen and support the schools and inform the public about the benefits of waldorf education.

$901k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$44k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,286
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Association of Waldorf Schools of North America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$44k14%
FY20211$164k100%
FY20205$37k0%
FY20195$41k20%
FY20186$45k0%
FY20176$43kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$211kYouth Development$164k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11PA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11 · Waldorf Schools of North America · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

How much does Association of Waldorf Schools of North America give?
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America reported 7 itemized grants totaling $44,216, out of $900,548 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Association of Waldorf Schools of North America fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Youth Development (44%).
Who are Association of Waldorf Schools of North America's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sunbridge Institute Inc ($36k), Center for Anthroposophy ($36k), Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training ($21k).
Does Association of Waldorf Schools of North America fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Association of Waldorf Schools of North America?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11, Waldorf Schools of North America, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Association of Waldorf Schools of North America based?
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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