· Private foundation
The Michael Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY AREA CENTER FOR WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING (BACWTT) | $14,000 |
| SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE | $14,000 |
| DETROIT WALDORF SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| THE FIBER CRAFT STUDIO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| CHRISTINA DE LA PENA | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,890 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 69% of The Michael Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SISUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +53%
- CFCENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +65%
- TNTHE NATURE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $9k
- MCmarcade claybon co sunbridge INSTITone grant, 2017 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The seattle waldorf school mission is: daily we strive to inspire learning, courage, and joy in the developing human being.
Bright water waldorf school's mission is to cultivate creative minds, capable hands, and compassionate hearts.
Our mission is to provide a waldorf education for children from preschool through grade 8, which nurtures and cultivates each student to develop their capacity to learn, grow, serve, and become a full and active member of the community.
To build the foundation of a free human being. guided by the philosophy of rudolf steiner.teachers inspire insightful thinking, empathy for all, and a love of meaningful work.
Providing academic excellence, an interest in the world, a love of learning and a sense of purpose in life, developing initiative, creativity, critical thinking and self reliance.
The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.
Waldorf school of bend is a private school. the waldorf school of bend cultivates academic excellence through our experimental curriculum rich in the arts, sciences, and practical works. we honor each child's unique spirit by building…
Minnesota waldorf school nurtures children's highest capacities of thinking, feeling and willing by cultivating a sense of truth, the power of imagination, and a feeling of responsibility for themselves and the world around them.
The school provides alternative education based on the waldorf method which is dedicated to sound education standards. teaching the whole child to grow and learn in ways that most suit their individual temperaments and abilities, utilizing…
The school provides alternative education based on the waldorf method which is dedicated to sound education standards. teaching the whole child to grow and learn in ways that most suit their individual temperments and abilities, utilizing…
Portland waldorf school educates children for the whole of life in order to uplift humanity. out of the insights of anthroposophy, the school nurtures the imagination, cultivates the intellect, and recognizes the unique spirit of each…
To operate an educational institution based on the integration of physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Waldorf Institute of Southern California and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD ↗
- Who funds Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Washington-Waldorf School Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN VALLEY WALDORF ASSOCIATION DBA CEDARWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Waldorf Schools of North America · Rsf Social Finance Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Michael Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.