· Private foundation
The Michael Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHRISTINA DE LA PENA | $4,000 |
| THE NATURE INSTITUTE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 69% of The Michael Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +12%
- CFCENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +65%
- TNTHE NATURE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- MCmarcade claybon co sunbridge INSTITone grant, 2017 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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