Oregon · Nonprofit
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,414 to it, the largest being BEE PAYNE-STEWART FOUNDATION ($26,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $788k
What Waldorf Education Association does
Mission
Our mission is to educate the whole child for the future, equally engaging body, mind and spirit. Our teachers foster a love of learning by enlivening the imagination, strengthening the creative will, deepening understanding, and awakening a sense of community. We strive to help all children develop their unique physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual capacities. This enables each individual to responsibly enter in freedom into an ever- changing local and global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our academic program integrates the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our dedicated and loving teachers provide a solid foundation for lifelong learning by joyfully immersing children in arts, music, math language, movement and play; serving students in preschool through grade eight. Pre k = 28 grade k = 27 grade 1 = 19 grade 2 = 10 grade 3 = 10 grade 4 = 12 grade 5 = 16 grade 6 = 12 grade 7 = 7 grade 8 = 0 total = 141
$1,666,612 spent$2,052,039 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,666,612.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+18%).
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 41% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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. 5 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
James Holzgraf
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $17k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 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
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 61% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
43% of WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Against its field
WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 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 WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,414 to it, the largest being BEE PAYNE-STEWART FOUNDATION ($26,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $82,414 in grants to WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- BEE PAYNE-STEWART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALDORF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 9 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