WALDHEIM CEMETERY CO.

What WALDHEIM CEMETERY CO. does

Waldheim Cemetery Co. is a private cemetery company operating in the Chicago metropolitan area, serving Jewish individuals and families seeking traditional Jewish burial services within the historically significant Jewish Waldheim cemetery complex. The company's service portfolio covers the full cemetery operations stack: interment and burial plot management, grave information lookups, record updates, pre-need planning documentation, monument and memorial services, and grounds care/grave decoration. It operates through two physical locations — a Cemetery Office at 1400 Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, IL (main administrative office) and a Memorial Office at 1700 S. Harlem Ave. in North Riverside, IL (handling monument and memorial inquiries). Visitation and office hours run Monday–Friday with Sunday visitation; the grounds are closed Saturdays in observance of Shabbat, reflecting the religious-cultural orientation of the user base.

The business operates on a traditional cemetery revenue model: one-time fees for burial plots and interment services, monument and memorial sales through the dedicated Memorial Office, and ancillary services including pre-need planning, grave decoration guidelines, and grounds care. The company distributes primarily through direct walk-in and office-visit engagement, supplemented by telephone/email contact and a company website (waldheimcemetery.com) that serves as the principal digital touchpoint for service information, pricing documents, and cemetery navigation maps. The technology stack is built on Cemetery Software by CemSites, a vertical SaaS platform purpose-built for cemetery operators; no proprietary technology, APIs, or integrations are disclosed.

The company is a single-operator private entity with no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no published headcount, and no management-team information publicly available. There are no records of mergers, acquisitions, leadership changes, regulatory actions, certifications, patents, or strategic partnerships in the provided source material. Customer acquisition relies on community referral and the historical significance of the Jewish Waldheim complex rather than on paid marketing or multi-channel campaigns.

Name

WALDHEIM CEMETERY CO.

Legal name

Waldheim Cemetery Co.

Website

https://waldheimcemetary.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Waldheim Cemetery Co. is a private Jewish cemetery operator in Forest Park, Illinois, serving families in the Chicago metropolitan area with burials, grave care, pre-need planning, and monument services through two offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cemetery Services

NAICS

Cemeteries and Crematories (812220), Cemeteries and Crematories (81222)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Cemetery services
• Burial plots
• Memorial monuments
• Pre-need planning
• Grave care

Headquarters

HQ city

Forest Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Cemetery and Burial Services: One-time fees for burial plots, interment services, and related cemetery operations. The company also offers memorial services through its Memorial Office.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Waldheim Cemetery Co. operates a Jewish cemetery in the Chicago metropolitan area, providing burial and interment services, grave information management, memorial/monument services, pre-need cemetery planning, and grounds care. The company runs a Cemetery Office in Forest Park, IL and a separate Memorial Office in North Riverside, IL, and maintains records, maps, and decoration guidelines for plot holders.

Product overview

Waldheim Cemetery Co. is a Jewish cemetery operator offering a unified set of cemetery management services. The company provides burials, cemetery maps with caretaker information, grave records management, pre-need planning, monument/memorial services, and grounds care. The service portfolio centers on cemetery operations including Burials/Maps for plot management and location services, Documents for Rules & Regulations, Price List, Pre-Need planning, and Grave Decorations, Memorials for monument services, and Care for grounds maintenance. The company operates two offices: a Cemetery Office at 1400 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, IL and a Memorial Office at 1700 S. Harlem Ave., North Riverside, IL.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Burials Cemetery burial services including interment plot management, burial scheduling, grave location lookup, and record update capabilities for Jewish families in the Chicago metropolitan area.
• Pre-Need Planning Pre-need cemetery planning documents and pricing information that allow individuals and families to arrange burial plots, services, and related cemetery needs in advance.
• Memorials Monument and memorial marker services for cemetery plot holders, coordinated through the dedicated Memorial Office in North Riverside, IL.
• Care Services Ongoing cemetery grounds maintenance and care services for the Waldheim Cemetery Co. plots and burial areas.
• Grave Decorations Regulated grave decoration services and seasonal decoration policies (winter and green decorations) for plot holders and visiting families.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• NorthStar Memorial Group: NorthStar Memorial Group owns and manages cemeteries, funeral homes, and cremation centers. Comparable as a multi-site cemetery/funeral operator with overlapping product mix (plots, interment, memorials), relevant for sector valuation and consolidation benchmarks.
• Carriage Services: Carriage Services is a publicly-traded provider of funeral and cemetery services across the U.S., with cemetery operations tied to both burial and memorial/merchandise sales. Comparable for capital-allocation and cemetery-operating benchmarks analogous to Waldheim's integrated burial-and-memorial model.
• Foundation Partners Group: Private-equity-backed death care operator running cemeteries and funeral homes nationwide. Comparable as a multi-site cemetery consolidator and as a potential acquirer of a regional Jewish cemetery asset like Waldheim.
• Everstory Partners: Everstory Partners operates one of the largest portfolios of funeral homes and cemeteries in the U.S., with significant cemetery-focused operations. Comparable as a PE-backed scale operator in the same cemetery-operations niche where Waldheim competes and that could consolidate regional Jewish cemeteries.
• Service Corporation International (SCI/Dignity Memorial): SCI is the largest publicly-traded funeral, cemetery, and cremation operator in North America. Comparable as a broad incumbent in death care that owns and manages cemetery properties including Jewish-affiliated cemeteries; relevant for scaling, pricing, and operating benchmarks relevant to Waldheim's single-site model.

Regional players

• Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum: Historic, large-scale not-for-profit cemetery in Cincinnati with burial, memorial, and grounds-care services. Comparable as a similarly historic, heritage-positioned cemetery operator facing analogous trends (cremation shift, pre-need, grounds care) but in a different geography.
• Forest Home Cemetery & Forest Lawn Memorial Park: Major historic Chicago-area cemeteries serving multi-faith families. Comparable as a regional heritage cemetery operator competing for the same Chicago metro end-customer base; useful for understanding local competitive dynamics and Jewish-vs-general market split.

Direct peers

• StoneMor Partners: StoneMor owns and operates cemeteries and funeral homes across the U.S., with cemetery operations as its core business. Directly comparable as a cemetery operator with plot-and-interment revenue model, multi-state footprint, and similar reliance on pre-need sales; benchmarks Waldheim's pricing and operating economics against an industry pure-play.

Others

• CemSites: CemSites provides cemetery-specific website and software solutions. Comparable as the technology vendor whose platform Waldheim uses; relevant as an ecosystem enabler/adjacent technology partner in the cemetery-services stack.

Emerging players

• B'nai Israel Cemetery / Local Jewish Funeral Directors: Chicago-area Jewish funeral home and burial coordination services (e.g., Shalom Memorial, Piser, Weinstein & Piser). Comparable as Jewish-specific death-care providers in the same metro, often coordinating directly with Jewish cemeteries like Waldheim.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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