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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,875
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,500
Organizations funded a year
14 to 23
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Waldorf Schools of North America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationEmploymentOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$225k32%
FY202418$209k11%
FY202323$204k52%
FY202219$218k37%
FY202114$194k14%
FY202022$198kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$108kEmployment$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Waldorf Schools of North America by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for Anthroposophy$152,25062%
Sunbridge Institute Inc$129,15063%
Tara Institute of the Performing Arts$69,30061%
The Waldorf Institute of Southern California$56,70045%
Waldorf Teacher Training Eugene$46,200615%
Chicago Waldorf School$38,85020%
Camellia Waldorf School$34,12541%
The Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc$32,38450%
River Valley Waldorf School$26,25031%
Marin Waldorf School Association Inc$24,67540%
Minnesota Waldorf School$23,94021%
Great Lakes Waldorf Instituteinc$22,57534%
Aurora Waldorf School$21,10531%
The Washington-Waldorf School Inc$21,00010%
Berkshire Waldorf School Inc$21,00020%
Santa Cruz Waldorf School Inc$19,34130%
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego$18,9001n/a
Waldorf School of Mendocino County$17,85021%
Hawthorne Valley Association Inc$17,85020%
Waldorf Education Association$16,80011%
Cincinnati Waldorf School$15,75030%
Pleasant Ridge School Inc$12,60030%
Malamalama Waldorf School Inc$10,50011%
The Waldorf Educational Association of Nc Inc$10,50010%
Live Oak Waldorf School Corporation$9,45010%
Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs$7,35011%
The Bay School$7,24511%
The Waldorf School of Atlanta$6,82510%
Upper Valley Waldorf School$5,25010%
Westside Waldorf School$4,20010%
Susquehanna Waldorf School$3,67510%
Pasadena Waldorf School$3,15010%
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America$3,15010%
The Rudolf Steiner School Association of Ann Arbor$3,15010%
The Waldorf School of Pittsburgh$2,10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($333k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waldorf Schools of North America supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Anthroposophy: $152,250 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSunbridge Institute Inc: $129,150 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTara Institute of the Performing Arts: $69,300 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Waldorf Institute of Southern California: $56,700 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetWaldorf Teacher Training Eugene: $46,200 over 6y, 15% of budgetChicago Waldorf School: $38,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCamellia Waldorf School: $34,125 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc: $32,384 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRiver Valley Waldorf School: $26,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMarin Waldorf School Association Inc: $24,675 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Waldorf School: $23,940 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGreat Lakes Waldorf Instituteinc: $22,575 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAurora Waldorf School: $21,105 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Washington-Waldorf School Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBerkshire Waldorf School Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Cruz Waldorf School Inc: $19,341 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWaldorf School of Mendocino County: $17,850 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHawthorne Valley Association Inc: $17,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaldorf Education Association: $16,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCincinnati Waldorf School: $15,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPleasant Ridge School Inc: $12,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMalamalama Waldorf School Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Waldorf Educational Association of Nc Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLive Oak Waldorf School Corporation: $9,450 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWaldorf School of Saratoga Springs: $7,350 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Bay School: $7,245 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Waldorf School of Atlanta: $6,825 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUpper Valley Waldorf School: $5,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestside Waldorf School: $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSusquehanna Waldorf School: $3,675 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPasadena Waldorf School: $3,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Waldorf Schools of North America: $3,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rudolf Steiner School Association of Ann Arbor: $3,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Waldorf School of Pittsburgh: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA34.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Waldorf Schools of North America

How much does Waldorf Schools of North America give?
Waldorf Schools of North America reported 25 grants totaling $224,543 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Waldorf Schools of North America fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Arts & Culture (9%), Employment (1%).
Who are Waldorf Schools of North America's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for Anthroposophy ($152k), Sunbridge Institute Inc ($129k), Tara Institute of the Performing Arts ($69k).
Does Waldorf Schools of North America fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Waldorf Schools of North America accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Waldorf Schools of North America?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, The Michael Foundation Inc, Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11.
Where is Waldorf Schools of North America based?
Waldorf Schools of North America is based in PA.

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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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