Michigan · Nonprofit
THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR
THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,413 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($885,050). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What The Rudolf Steiner School Association of Ann Arbor does
Mission
The school's main objective is to provide a complete waldorf education for children, preschool through twelfth grade. In addition, before-care, after-care and summer day camps are provided.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General instruction - a contemporary, classical prek-12 education. Early childhood develops social and organizational skills for lifelong learning. Gr 1-8 engages students in discovery through curriculum that seamlessly integrates academics and fine arts with teachers who spend eight full years with their class. Gr 9-12 develop moral, intellectual and aesthetic capacity through focused inquiry in seminar-style classes taught by specialists. The school offers students the opportunity to experience a foreign culture directly through exchange programs with other waldorf schools abroad. Our school values its international population and strives to both educate and learn from our diverse student population, blending cultures educationally, socially, and artistically into our program.
$6,733,486 spentof which $2,271,805 as grants$6,868,195 earned by the program99% of program spendingAuxiliary programs - include a parent/child program for toddlers and parents, facility rentals, and grades 5-12 athletic programming. As a member of the michigan hs athletic assoc., almost 50% of hs students participate in at least one sport. Students in grades 5-8 participate in competitive seasonal sports. The school belongs to the mid-michigan independent athletic assoc. And is in league with six private and parochial schools. A non-competitive skill-based sports club is also offered to all grade 5-6 students.
$93,886 spent$197,531 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,827,372.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.6M to $10M (+33%).
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 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $64k → $177k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR’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 RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
97% 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 RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 68% · 2019 61% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 84% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
97% of THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR?
- THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,413 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($885,050). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,447,413 in grants to THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $885,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ANN ARBOR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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