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THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS
THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,712 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What The Association for Waldorf Education in Davis does
Mission
Through a well-rounded and artistically-imbued curriculum, the davis waldorf school builds a strong academic, social, emotional, and physical foundation to cultivate each student's capacity for independent thinking, compassionate feeling, and responsible action, following the indications for the developmental phases of childhood and curriculum from rudolf steiner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Davis waldorf school offers well-rounded, vigorous academic programs, services and events that prepare students for the real world. With a creative and artistic approach to learning, students develop a wide range of skills and aptitude through main lesson and subject classes including early childhood eurythmy, handwork, strings, music, spanish, gardening, math, woodworking, and games.for the fy25 school year we started a robotics program run by parent volunteers and included instruction from steve harvey, the founder of the davis youth robotics program where our children were part of the competition and won. We brought back our soccer program in the spring. We had a robust seasonal elective program including circus arts, cooking, french, micropublishing, acting, woodworking, and embroidery.approximately 211.8 fte students attended davis waldorf school from preschool through 8th grade in the 2024-2025 school year.
$3,161,159 spentof which $216,615 as grants$3,003,329 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,161,159.
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.
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 $3.2M to $3.6M (+12%).
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 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Holly Nichols
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $75k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS’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
THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 60% · 2022 85% · 2023 66% — 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
93% of THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k 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.
Organizations like THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS?
- THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,712 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $240,712 in grants to THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ASSOCIATION FOR WALDORF EDUCATION IN DAVIS 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