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The Washington-Waldorf School Inc

The Washington-Waldorf School Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,473,139 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($2,060,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$10M
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$4.5M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
12/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Against its field

The Washington-Waldorf School Inc's revenue grew 18% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($8.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.7M) Net assets 100 ($7.8M)2020 Revenue 94 ($8.2M) Expenses 102 ($7.9M) Net assets 104 ($8.2M)2021 Revenue 96 ($8.4M) Expenses 94 ($7.2M) Net assets 120 ($9.3M)2022 Revenue 152 ($13M) Expenses 105 ($8.1M) Net assets 186 ($15M)2023 Revenue 113 ($9.9M) Expenses 121 ($9.4M) Net assets 193 ($15M)2024 Revenue 113 ($9.9M) Expenses 130 ($10.0M) Net assets 193 ($15M)2025 Revenue 118 ($10M) Expenses 145 ($11M) Net assets 175 ($14M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (118)Expenses (145)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of The Washington-Waldorf School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
19
$327k
20
$1.2M
21
$5.3M
22
$546k
23
$100k
24
$876k
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $318k → $2.9M.

12 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)88% 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 Washington-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

The Washington-Waldorf School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 Washington-Waldorf School Inc.

46%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 58% · 2021 66% · 2022 52% · 2023 69%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

71% of The Washington-Waldorf School Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

88% of The Washington-Waldorf School Inc'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 $526k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states.

ME
NY
PA
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like The Washington-Waldorf School Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Washington-Waldorf School Inc: 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 Washington-Waldorf School Inc?
The Washington-Waldorf School Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,473,139 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($2,060,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Washington-Waldorf School Inc have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,473,139 in grants to The Washington-Waldorf School Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Washington-Waldorf School Inc?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Washington-Waldorf School Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing