· Private foundation
Waldorf Schools of North America
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY | $31,500 |
| SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE | $24,150 |
| WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING EUGENE | $21,000 |
| SOUND CIRCLE CENTER FOR ARTS AND ANTHROP | $10,500 |
| GREAT LAKES WALDORF INSTITUTE | $10,500 |
| MALAMALAMA WALDORF SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| HONOLULU WALDORF SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS | $8,400 |
| SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL | $8,400 |
| AURORA WALDORF SCHOOL | $7,875 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL ASS OF THE DE RIVER VALLE | $7,875 |
| HOUSATONIC WALDORF SCHOOL | $7,875 |
| DETROIT WALDORF SCHOOL | $7,875 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL OF ATLANTA | $6,825 |
| ANCHORAGE WALDORF SCHOOL | $6,300 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- CFCENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY6× · 2020–2025 · $152k · revenue +65%
- SISUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +60%
- TITARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TWThe Washington-Waldorf School Incone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -23%
- AFAssociation for Waldorf Education in San Diegograduatedone grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue +26%
- WEWALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nursery through eighth grade education to children of the Princeton area. We lead our students towards high accomplishment without fitting them into standardized norms.
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…
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…
To educate the whole human being in a healthy and balanced manner.
Bright water waldorf school's mission is to cultivate creative minds, capable hands, and compassionate hearts.
To provide education to children following a waldorf curriculum.
Nurturing a healthy, sustanable future of whole, aware, authentic people, curriculums are based on a childs stages of development that presents subject matter and new skills enhancing the natural rhythm of growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River Valley Waldorf School and the most unlike its peers is Tara Institute of the Performing Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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 CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WALDORF TEACHER TRAINING EUGENE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES WALDORF INSTITUTEINC ↗
- Who funds AURORA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Washington-Waldorf School Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Waldorf School ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds MALAMALAMA WALDORF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK WALDORF SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
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 · The Michael Foundation Inc · Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11 · Association of Waldorf Schools of North America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Schools of North America 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.
- Upper Valley Waldorf School — 5% 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.