Oregon · Nonprofit
THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION
THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,507 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($187,543). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $963k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $620k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Gangaji Foundation does
Mission
The Gangaji Foundation serves the truth of universal consciousness, and the potential for the individual and collective recognition of peace inherent in the core of all being. It is the purpose of The Gangaji Foundation to forthrightly and respectfully present the teaching and transmission of gangaji, through the grace of sri ramana maharshi and sri h.w.l. Poonja.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
WEB-BASED PROGRAMS: The online event and community subscription program, With Gangaji, served well over 800 participants each month with meetings using Zoom calls, recordings, a community forum, and interactive content. Online Meetings and Retreats with Gangaji continued to be popular in 2024, and were attended by participants from all over the world. The Foundation produced three online Small Group Retreats that were attended by 135 participants. Two online Public Meetings were offered for an optional donation and nearly 1000 people enrolled.Streaming video and audio downloads of event recordings were made available to event attendees through the Gangaji Foundation website.The website received approximately 70,000 users from 150 countries in 2024. Articles and excerpts from Gangaji's talks are available for free on the website. Audio and video clips of satsang teachings continue to be made available free of charge.
$227,334 spent31% of program spendingIn-person Events & BookstoreIn 2024, the Foundation produced five non-residential retreats that were attended by 404 people. Books and recordings were available for sale to retreat attendees.
$192,573 spent26% of program spendingGangaji Media: Downloads of the podcast programs, Being Yourself, A Conversation with Gangaji, and Epiphany are free to all accross multiple podcast platforms. In 2024, over 164,000 episodes were downloaded. Staff and volunteers continued digitizing the historic analog recording library to make Gangajis older teaching material available to new audiences.
$165,357 spent22% of program spendingPrison Program: The Prison Program offers a course by mail and a correspondence program to incarcerated individuals, and also provides books, audios and videos by request, free-of-charge to prisoners across the country. In 2024 approximately 740 prisoners were served by the course.
$116,168 spent16% of program spendingScholarship Program:The Gangaji Foundation scholarship program serves those who have a deep calling to be with Gangaji, but do not have the financial means to attend a retreat or weekend with Gangaji. In 2024, 28 people attended retreats with Gangaji with support from scholarships. There were 74 participants awarded scholarships for a one-year membership to the With Gangaji on-line subscription program.
$39,715 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $741,147.
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 2018 to 2019, from $999k to $1.8M (+80%).
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 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
A Varner
Chair/teacher
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $35k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 THE GANGAJI 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
THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 77% · 2020 74% · 2021 43% · 2022 64% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
73% of THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION'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 $167k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k 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.
Against its field
THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION?
- THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,507 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($187,543). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $619,507 in grants to THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $187,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION 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.
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 11 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