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Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,592 to it, the largest being WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 ($206,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$780k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$419k
Net assets
$320k
7/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training does

Mission

The Center was founded in 2001 for the purpose of strengthening the presence and effectiveness of waldorf education through the provisioning of well-trained teachers

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Center offers a Waldorf Teacher Training Certificate Program during the academic year; a Summer Arts Festival featuring courses in the arts and Waldorf pedagogy in the summer; and Community Enrichment Classes, Workshops, and Lectures throughout the year.

    $539,648 spent$555,770 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $539,648.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($467k) Expenses 100 ($399k) Net assets 100 ($332k)2018 Revenue 111 ($518k) Expenses 112 ($448k) Net assets 121 ($401k)2019 Revenue 137 ($637k) Expenses 148 ($591k) Net assets 135 ($447k)2020 Revenue 114 ($531k) Expenses 136 ($542k) Net assets 132 ($436k)2021 Revenue 85 ($395k) Expenses 124 ($497k) Net assets 116 ($386k)2022 Revenue 144 ($671k) Expenses 188 ($752k) Net assets 91 ($301k)2023 Revenue 139 ($649k) Expenses 179 ($712k) Net assets 72 ($240k)2024 Revenue 151 ($704k) Expenses 183 ($729k) Net assets 61 ($203k)2025 Revenue 167 ($780k) Expenses 165 ($660k) Net assets 97 ($320k)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (165)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

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 $447k to $321k (−28%).

$362k
$436k
$460k
$492k
$447k
$321k
$253k
$312k
$393k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

24% of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
’17
$70k
’18
$46k
’19
−$11k
’20
−$102k
’21
−$81k
’22
−$63k
’23
−$25k
’24
$120k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

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Listed8811107614128
Joined·+1+4+0+0+0+9+1+0
No longer listed·11131134
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $53k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training’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

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training.

49%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 80% · 2020 41% · 2021 54% · 2022 46% · 2023 62% — 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

50% of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

PA
CA
CO

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training?
Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $418,592 to it, the largest being WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 ($206,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $418,592 in grants to Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training?
WALDORF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 0049-05-11 is the largest funder on record, with $206,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing