Vermont · Nonprofit
ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC
ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $514,503 to it, the largest being JOSEPH P DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $515k
- Net assets
- $929k
What Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc does
Mission
Educational institution that serves children from early childhood through eighth grade. We deliver proven educational programs, guiding each student along a path that allows the child to grow into young adulthood with inner confidence, a love of learning, and the dynamic thinking required to promote social renewal. We seek to awaken and educate the whole child by equally engaging the mind, enlivening the imagination, and strengthening the will, in harmony with the natural stages of child development. This is accomplished by: integrating the arts into all aspects of the curriculum - foreign language, humanities, math and sciences creating an environment of safety and acceptance that seeks to recognize the special gifts of each child cultivating a living relationship between the land, our children, and the community where the joys and traditions of play, work, festivals and song unfold.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A.founded in 2004, orchard valley is an independent waldorf school in central vermont, serving children aged three months through eighth grade. Orchard valley waldorf school is a vibrant and diverse learning community dedicated to nurturing our students' intellectual, social, and creative potential. Our school strives to offer a holistic education that aligns with the principles of waldorf education. It emphasizes the importance of fostering imagination, creativity, and a grounding connection to the natural world by engaging the children's heads, hands, and hearts in all their lessons and play. Orchard valley serves students on two campuses. In montpelier, at the child's garden campus, sweet clover nursery uses a combined waldorf and pickler methodology to serve children aged 3 months-3 years. Even at this young age, sweet clover emphasizes bodily autonomy and independence as children play inside their beautiful, cozy classrooms and outdoor spaces. Grace farm, our 55-acre campus in east montpelier, houses programs for ages 3.5 years through the 8th grade using waldorf teaching methods. All students are taught in a screen-free environment, and the curriculum heavily integrates our…
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$1,539,617 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,539,617.
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 2018 to 2019, from $901k to $2.0M (+127%).
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: 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $35k → $121k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC’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
ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% 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
52% 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 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 77% · 2021 92% · 2022 63% · 2023 41% — 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 ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$632k
- Grants$130k
- CC Stabilization ARPA - Grants$77k
- CC Stabilization$60k
- CCFAP Expansion Readiness$48k
- CCDF CRRSA$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC?
- ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $514,503 to it, the largest being JOSEPH P DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $514,503 in grants to ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC?
- JOSEPH P DONAHUE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 11 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