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ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA

ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,215 to it, the largest being WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 ($640,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.0M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$888k
Grants received
$883k
Net assets
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($531k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.9M) Expenses 102 ($1.9M) Net assets 94 ($501k)2019 Revenue 105 ($2.0M) Expenses 91 ($1.7M) Net assets 138 ($731k)2020 Revenue 97 ($1.8M) Expenses 86 ($1.6M) Net assets 171 ($905k)2021 Revenue 122 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 238 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 138 ($2.6M) Expenses 131 ($2.5M) Net assets 254 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 132 ($2.5M) Expenses 143 ($2.7M) Net assets 205 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 155 ($2.9M) Expenses 140 ($2.7M) Net assets 248 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 161 ($3.0M) Expenses 182 ($3.4M) Net assets 166 ($883k)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (182)Net assets (166)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
17
$25k
18
$232k
19
$186k
20
$352k
21
$86k
22
$256k
23
$234k
24
$433k
25
1.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $205k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH 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

ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

26% 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 OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA.

72%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 98% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 85%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

40% of ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.

OH
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
21
22
23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
77%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA?
ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,215 to it, the largest being WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 ($640,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $888,215 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA?
WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 is the largest funder on record, with $640,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing