California · Nonprofit
Ginungagap Foundation
Ginungagap Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,263,738 to it, the largest being Skywords Family Foundation Inc co Cynthia Rowland ($5,531,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Ginungagap Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Novo Foundationshared funders
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio match
- Tan Teo Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Ginungagap Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $700k → $1.0M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Ginungagap Foundation’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
Ginungagap Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Ginungagap Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $733k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Novo Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tan Teo Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luis Von Ahn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Natural Pathways Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BESS Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betsy Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aggarwal & Gupta Family Foundation INCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ankitara Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dana Sila Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Ginungagap Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Rudolf Steiner Foundation · exempt
- Filigreen Farms LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ginungagap Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Ginungagap Foundation?
- Ginungagap Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,263,738 to it, the largest being Skywords Family Foundation Inc co Cynthia Rowland ($5,531,066). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ginungagap Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,263,738 in grants to Ginungagap Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ginungagap Foundation?
- Skywords Family Foundation Inc co Cynthia Rowland is the largest funder on record, with $5,531,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ginungagap Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing