Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,773 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($509,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $561k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What The Waldorf School of Philadelphia does
Mission
The Waldorf School of Philadelphia is a vibrant learning community where education, based on a deep understanding of the developing child, integrates the intellectual with the artistic, the practical with the beautiful - fostering the ability to engage fully in the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Waldorf School of Philadelphia is an urban, organic learning environment in the heart of germantown, based on rudolf steiners philosophy of education, for nursery through eighth grade. The school includes early childhood, lower school, and middle school programs and integrates special subjects. The school also provides student support services, learning support, and counselling support, after school care, study groups with family involvement, and seasonal family activities.
$3,810,183 spent$3,873,621 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,810,183.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+22%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $118k → $94k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA’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 WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $561k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: 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 THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,773 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($509,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $560,773 in grants to THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $509,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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