Michigan · Nonprofit
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,995 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($181,412). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Anthroposophical Society in America does
Mission
The Anthroposophical Society in America is an association of people seeking to nurture the life of the soul and to explore what it means to be truly human, based on spiritual science arising out of the work of rudolf steiner. We serve the public through our own actions, the initiatives of its members, and the activities of the school for spiritual science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The society provides educational services in the form of lectures, study intensives, webinars, and conferences. Some of the 2025 activity included the annual conference, annual general meeting, an in-person festival event, plus 1 international conference reception, 2 different weeks-long online study intensives, 2 different webinars, live speakers, small group intensives, 3 online festival events over the course of the year, and 1 nationwide study group meeting monthly. We also provide support for many such study groups, nationwide.
$754,637 spentof which $149,600 as grants$133,745 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $754,637.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $2.8M (+138%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $24k → $68k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Anthroposophical Society in America). These are real filings, and they are not money ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 64% · 2020 69% · 2021 47% · 2022 52% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
83% of ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $109k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA?
- ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,995 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($181,412). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $383,995 in grants to ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $181,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing