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WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA
WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,630). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $669k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Waldorf Early Childhood Assn of North America does
Mission
The mission of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (and of the International Association for Steiner / Waldorf Early Childhood Education, of which it is a member) is to nurture a new cultural impulse for the work with the young child from pre-birth to age seven, based on an understanding of the healthy development of the child in body, soul and spirit, and on a commitment to protect and nurture childhood as the foundation for a truly human culture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Some of the activities of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association in recent years include the following:Research into the needs of children from birth to three, including networking with child care providers and the development of a national center for child care, parenting, and birth-to-three workParticipation in international forums for the development of Waldorf early childhood education, including conferences in England, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and GermanyDevelopment of training programs for early childhood educators and child care providersPublication of a newsletter, Gateways, which appears twice each yearProfessional development retreats for faculty of early childhood teacher training programs and conferences for early childhood educatorsPublication and distribution of study materials for early childhood educators and parentsHosting an international conference for Waldorf early childhood educators from around the worldCollaborating with sister organizations such as the Association for Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and the International Association for Steiner / Waldorf Early Childhood Education (IASWECE).Advice, mentoring and consulting visits to new…
$618,197 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $618,197.
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 2019 to 2020, from $169k to $252k (+49%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Louise De Forest
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $8k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA’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
WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 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
86% of WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA?
- WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,080 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,630). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $64,080 in grants to WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALDORF EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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