California · Nonprofit
CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL
CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,245 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $367k
- Net assets
- $954k
What Camellia Waldorf School does
Mission
Camellia Waldorf School educates by honoring childhood, appreciating the individuality of each student, and instilling a sense of moral and ethical responibility while building capacities and encouraging clear and creative thinking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The 2024-2025 school year was filled with vibrant community engagement and generous support for our school. We began with a strong Annual Fund Drive in the fall, and were energized by a $5,000 participation challenge from a longtime friend of the school. Families encouraged one another, grandparents joined in, and several households secured employer-matching gifts. Right before winter break, we reached 100% participation and raised over $64,000, providing vital support for our classrooms, faculty, and festival life. Last fall also brought meaningful grant support. Camellia received an $8,000 grant from the Waldorf Schools Fund to enhance the outdoor classroom area near the lower grades with a new shade structure, wooden tables, and planters. We were also awarded a $50,000 grant from the WoodNext Foundation to support our Tuition Assistance Program, helping us maintain a socioeconomically diverse and inclusive school community. In the spring, we gathered for our annual dinner auction and only fundraising event of the year. The event welcomed more than 150 guests and raised just under $70,000, including $28,000 for our annual Fund-a-Need project, which completed our campus exterior…
$1,950,315 spent$2,445,530 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,950,315.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $2.9M (+15%).
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 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL’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. 0 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $150k → $68k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL’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
CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 81% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL: 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 CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL?
- CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,245 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $367,245 in grants to CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMELLIA WALDORF SCHOOL 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 7 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