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.

Waldorf Schools of North America

Waldorf Schools of North America at a glance

· 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.

$225k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$32k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $106k
$10k–50k7 grants · $119k

$7,875

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MALAMALAMA WALDORF SCHOOL	$10,500
GREAT LAKES WALDORF INSTITUTE	$10,500
HONOLULU WALDORF SCHOOL	$10,500
TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS	$8,400
SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL	$8,400
HOUSATONIC WALDORF SCHOOL	$7,875
DETROIT WALDORF SCHOOL	$7,875
AURORA WALDORF SCHOOL	$7,875
WALDORF SCHOOL ASS OF THE DE RIVER VALLE	$7,875
WALDORF SCHOOL OF ATLANTA	$6,825
GREEN MEADOW WALDORF SCHOOL	$6,300

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 29 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+26%

Still filing today

66%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

CF
CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY
6× · 2020–2025 · $152k · revenue +65%
SI
SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +17%
TI
TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +42%

Funded once

TW
The Washington-Waldorf School Inc
one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -23%
AF
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diegograduated
one grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue +26%
WE
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +29%

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.

04Its field

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.

Waldorf School Assoc of Seattle

The seattle waldorf school mission is: daily we strive to inspire learning, courage, and joy in the developing human being.

Education

The Madison Waldorf School Ltd

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.

Education

The Waldorf School of Orange County

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.

—

Whidbey Island Waldorf School

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.

—

Waldorf School Association of the Princeton Area

Nursery through eighth grade education to children of the Princeton area. We lead our students towards high accomplishment without fitting them into standardized norms.

Education

Ashwood Waldorf School

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…

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Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

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

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…

Education

Rudolf Steiner School Inc

To educate the whole human being in a healthy and balanced manner.

Education

Bright Water Waldorf School

Bright water waldorf school's mission is to cultivate creative minds, capable hands, and compassionate hearts.

Education

Tacoma Waldorf School

To provide education to children following a waldorf curriculum.

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The Waldorf School of Dupage

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River Valley Waldorf School; 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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 53 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

26/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$628,236Other$532,657Arts & Culture$69,300Employment$17,850

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Waldorf Schools of North America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waldorf Schools of North America. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home