California · Nonprofit
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,671 to it, the largest being IGRB FOUNDATION ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego does
Mission
To awaken each student's capacity for love of learning, for independent thinking, and for heartfelt service to the world. Make waldorf education available to all children in the san diego area through active engagement with families of all ethnic, spiritual, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
K12 education. Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade. The aim of the education is to inspire lifelong learning in each student and enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. Founded in germany in the early 20th century, waldorf education is an independent and inclusive form of education based on the insights and teaching of renowned anthroposophist, artist,and scientist, rudolf steiner. Evolving from a profound understanding of the human spirit and human development,waldorf education is regionally adaptive and has grown to include hundreds of schools worldwide. An average of 280 students were enrolled at the waldorf school of san diego for the 2022/2023 school year.
$5,882,296 spentof which $1,849,319 as grants$5,908,007 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,882,296.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $5.5M (−10%).
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 14% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $184k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego’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
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 61% · 2022 29% · 2023 68% — 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
75% of Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,412 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego?
- Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,671 to it, the largest being IGRB FOUNDATION ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $528,671 in grants to Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego?
- IGRB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association for Waldorf Education in San Diego find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing