Arizona · Nonprofit
TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,409,157 to it, the largest being ARIZONA WALDORF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ($2,280,549). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Tucson Waldorf Education Association does
Mission
Tucson waldorf school is a community dedicated to joy in learning. We believe in engaging each child through meaningful experiences, attuned to the unique stages of childhood. Tucson waldorf school serves children from 6-weeks old through 8th grade with an education that promotes joy in learning and scholarly engagement through art, music, practical work, gardening, life skills, and main lessons for core subjects. Graduates approach life with purpose, intention, and commitment to social responsibility, confident of their place in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided education consisting of art, music, languages, drama, reading,math, writing, history, gardening, handwork, to preschool andkindergarten through 8th grade children through the following three programs:quail's nest program - supported a parent-child community from birth through age 3 which provided education to parents, enabled healthy socialization and play for children, built lasting connections for a parent community, and created strong rhythms empowering families both in the classroom and at home to provide a healthy supportive environment for their growing toddlers.
$2,023,498 spent$2,812,912 earned by the program100% of program spendingEarly childhood program - engaged preschool and kindergarten-age children using time-tested and developmentally attuned educational methods, supported social and emotional learning, and provided sensory rich and creative indoor and outdoor environments, where students received plenty of playtime resulting in a strong foundation for academic learning in the grade school program.
Grades 1-8 program - delivered an experiential academic curriculum in a developmentally attuned and time-tested method which strengthened the student's will, curiosity, and love for learning by engaging the student through storytelling grounded in many cultural traditions, as well as history, music, movement and art. All this was done while deepening the concept and material,integrating physical and academic learning, and developing the student's desire and capacity to continue learning after grade school and beyond.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,023,498.
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 $5.0M to $6.5M (+30%).
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 22% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $337k → $151.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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
TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
96% 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 TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
96% of TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tws Michael LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 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 TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,409,157 to it, the largest being ARIZONA WALDORF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ($2,280,549). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,409,157 in grants to TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- ARIZONA WALDORF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,280,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUCSON WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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