· Private foundation
Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Association of Waldorf Schools of North | $136,500 |
| Eurythmy Spring Valley | $70,000 |
| Center for Anthroposophy | $67,000 |
| RSF Social Finance | $47,000 |
| Sunbridge Institute | $35,000 |
| Waldorf Early Childhood Association | $35,000 |
| Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher | $33,000 |
| Anthroposophical Society in America | $28,000 |
| The Research Institute for Waldorf | $23,000 |
| Association for Anthroposophic Medicine | $20,000 |
| LifeWays North America Inc | $18,000 |
| The Nature Institute | $18,000 |
| Academe of the Oaks | $17,500 |
| Rudolf Steiner College Canada | $17,000 |
| Waldorf School of Garden City | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 22% of Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11’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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AOASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA5× · 2019–2024 · $763k · revenue +54%
- TETHREEFOLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $270k · revenue +34%
- CFCENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY5× · 2019–2024 · $247k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- LCLake Champlain Waldorf Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +40%
- ASAnthroposophical Society in North Americaone grant, 2019 · $23k
- TRTHE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +27%
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.
Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…
Bright water waldorf school's mission is to cultivate creative minds, capable hands, and compassionate hearts.
Nursery through eighth grade education to children of the Princeton area. We lead our students towards high accomplishment without fitting them into standardized norms.
Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)
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…
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…
The acorn school of charleston inc. nurtures childrens' 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…
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.
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.
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…
Waldorf school of pittsburgh fosters each child's capacity to become an independent thinking, compassionate, courageous, and purposeful human being.
To educate the whole human being in a healthy and balanced manner.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Waldorf Schools of North America and the most unlike its peers is Free Columbia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THREEFOLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training ↗
- Who funds SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF GARDEN CITY ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAYS NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR A HEALING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Champlain Waldorf School ↗
- Who funds THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEME OF THE OAKS ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES WALDORF INSTITUTEINC ↗
- Who funds FREE COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Association of Waldorf Schools of North America · Waldorf Schools of North America · The Myrin Institute Inc · The Triskeles Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11 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.
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
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.
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