California · Nonprofit
Hofvarpnir Studios
Hofvarpnir Studios (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,493,540 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($1,443,540). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $572k
What Hofvarpnir Studios does
Mission
Hofvarpnir Studios believes artificial intelligence is a transformative technology in the 21st century that should be aligned with human preferences and behave as expected. As neural networks become more complex, studying them requires significant computational resources. The organization's mission is to bridge the gap between AI safety academics and high performance computing by providing the infrastructure they need to address challenges in developing safe AI systems. The organization is partnering with safety labs to build GPU clusters for large natural language models like GPT-3 and reinforcement learning workloads. The organization is also providing a smaller cluster for independent AI safety researchers. Overall, the organization's goal is to support and enable AI safety research through providing specialized computing infrastructure.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the reporting period, the organization continued to support academic AI safety research labs such as the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) and Steinhardt Lab at UC Brkeley. Its expenditures were predominantly colocation and maintenance costs of the server hardware and related components purchased in the prior year to construct a compute cluster, which is utilized by the aforementioned AI safety research labs and dozens of independent researchers. The compute cluster empowered researchers who would otherwise not have the resources necessary to investigate complex neural networks that require substantial compute resources and publish works that advance the field of AI safety.
$471,317 spent$54,716 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $471,317.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $959k (−30%).
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.
100% of Hofvarpnir Studios’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Shauna Kravec
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Hofvarpnir Studios’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
Hofvarpnir Studios leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
“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 Hofvarpnir Studios's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Hofvarpnir Studios's revenue fell 95% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hofvarpnir Studios: 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 Hofvarpnir Studios?
- Hofvarpnir Studios (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,493,540 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($1,443,540). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hofvarpnir Studios have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,493,540 in grants to Hofvarpnir Studios.
- Who is the largest funder of Hofvarpnir Studios?
- GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,443,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hofvarpnir Studios 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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