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WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS

WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,148 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ($49,990). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
$1.3M
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs does

Mission

The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs values the healthy development of the whole individual in mind, body, and spirit. Through a focus on academics, music, art, and movement, our bountiful curriculum - based on established and evolving waldorf principles - inspires creative thought, discourse, human connections, and experiential learning. We graduate global citizens who have initiative, social responsibility, and enthusiasm for life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide a non-sectarian education for children from pre-school age through grade eight.

    $1,236,558 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,236,558.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($737k)2018 Revenue 97 ($2.4M) Expenses 104 ($2.5M) Net assets 91 ($672k)2019 Revenue 92 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.4M) Net assets 70 ($514k)2020 Revenue 64 ($1.6M) Expenses 82 ($1.9M) Net assets 21 ($153k)2021 Revenue 63 ($1.5M) Expenses 60 ($1.4M) Net assets 39 ($290k)2022 Revenue 65 ($1.6M) Expenses 65 ($1.5M) Net assets 50 ($368k)2023 Revenue 57 ($1.4M) Expenses 72 ($1.7M) Net assets 10 ($76k)2024 Revenue 122 ($3.0M) Expenses 76 ($1.8M) Net assets 173 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 72 ($1.8M) Expenses 75 ($1.8M) Net assets 178 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (75)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $695k to $2.0M (+186%).

$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.2M
$881k
$1.2M
$918k
$695k
$2.0M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$98k
’17
−$76k
’18
−$124k
’19
−$351k
’20
$135k
’21
$80k
’22
−$294k
’23
$1.2M
’24
−$5k
’25
5.4
months of
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

Kiere Neulander

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed13121110111110811
Joined·+0+5+2+4+7+0+2+4
No longer listed·16337141
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $23k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS’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 SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS.

31%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 49% · 2021 98% · 2022 80% · 2023 65% — 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

13% of WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

81% of WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.

NY
PA
CT
CA
FL

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

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’19
’20
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
73%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS?
WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,148 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ($49,990). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $160,148 in grants to WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WALDORF SCHOOL OF SARATOGA SPRINGS 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 12 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