Funding search · EIN 131628151 · New York, NY

Carnegie Corporation of New York

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

2,368
grants reported
$631.4M
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$200,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Civic education and voter engagement infrastructure in US schools and communities
  • Higher education and research capacity building in Africa
  • International peace and security: nonproliferation, China, Middle East, Russia
  • K-12 school design, science curriculum (OpenSciEd), and teacher practice
  • Immigrant integration: ESL, legal services, naturalization, library programming
  • Journalism and public media on education and democracy

Typical grant

Median grant is $200,000 with the middle half between roughly $100,000 and $300,000. The million-dollar-plus checks go to donor collaboratives (Neo Philanthropy's Four Freedoms and State Infrastructure Funds), national civic education platforms, and flagship African fellowship programs; the $500,000 range covers university-based research centers and single-institution fellowship programs. Giving repeats heavily, with recipients like Middlebury, Columbia, Harvard, and African Population and Health Research Center appearing multiple times, though many awards are explicitly labeled "as a final grant," so multi-year support has a designed endpoint.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • core support
  • as a final grant
  • project support
  • early-career
  • civic education
  • doctoral and postdoctoral

Positioning adjacent work

  • Frame research as core support for an existing center or fellowship pipeline, not a one-off study.
  • If Africa-facing, tie to doctoral and early-career academic pipeline building at named partner universities.
  • Ask $500,000 to $900,000 for a university center; reserve seven figures for national coalitions.
  • Connect to civic education or deliberative democracy skills for young people, their most crowded 2024 theme.

Worth knowing: Money concentrates hard in DC and New York, with African institutions (Nairobi, Kampala, Cape Town, Accra, Johannesburg) the main exception. This is relationship-driven, invitation-shaped giving to institutions Carnegie has funded for years, including its own affiliated Carnegie entities, so a cold approach without a program officer connection is unlikely to land.

31 grants matching “congressional · $8.1M

  • $510,000

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program

  • $390,000

    Partnership for a Secure America · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers

  • $270,000

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Congressional Fiscal Security Leadership Initiative

  • $190,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Congressional Foresight Initiative

  • $185,000

    University of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2024

    For one-time funding for a project on congressional nuclear policy preferences as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "Understanding the Politics of Nuclear Weapons"

  • $178,000

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Congressional Fiscal Security Leadership Initiative

  • $166,700

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    For a congressional education project on international security

  • $165,000

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2024

    For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers

  • $690,000

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program

  • $275,000

    Partnership for a Secure America · Washington, DC · 2023

    For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers

  • $260,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

    For the Congressional Foresight Initiative

  • $243,000

    University of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2023

    For one-time funding for a project on congressional nuclear policy preferences as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "Understanding the Politics of Nuclear Weapons"

  • $230,000

    Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2023

    For congressional education on armed conflicts, fragile states, and humanitarian crises

  • $85,000

    Nonproliferation Policy Education Center · Arlington, VA · 2023

    For a project educating congressional staff on nuclear weapons-relevant issues

  • $500

    David Wasserman · Evanston, IL · 2023

    As a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for the project, "Road Map to the Middle Ground: Restoring Competitiveness in Congressional Elections"

  • $600,000

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program

  • $485,000

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers

  • $375,000

    Partnership for a Secure America · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers

  • $272,000

    Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Congressional Fiscal Security Leadership Initiative

  • $233,300

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022

    For a congressional education project on international security

  • $140,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Congressional Foresight Initiative

  • $137,000

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers

  • $115,000

    Nonproliferation Policy Education Center · Arlington, VA · 2022

    For a project educating congressional staff on nuclear weapons-relevant issues

  • $90,000

    Congressional Progressive Caucus Center · Washington, DC · 2022

    As one-time funding for a project analyzing connections between military spending and funding domestic priorities as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "The Domestic-International Connection."

  • $600,000

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program

  • $313,000

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2021

    For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers

  • $220,000

    Partnership for a Secure America · Washington, DC · 2021

    For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers

  • $200,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2021

    For a congressional education project on international security

  • $190,000

    Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2021

    For the Congressional Foresight Initiative

  • $140,000

    Library of Congress · Washington, DC · 2021

    As a final grant to the Library of Congress Congressional Foreign Policy Program: Senior Foreign Policy Scholars in U.S.-Russia Relations and U.S.-China Relations

  • $110,000

    Congressional Progressive Caucus Center · Washington, DC · 2021

    As one-time funding for a project analyzing connections between military spending and funding domestic priorities as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "The Domestic-International Connection."

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Neo Philanthropy13 grants · $16.7M
  • National Center for Civic Innovation9 grants · $11.6M
  • Columbia University33 grants · $10.6M
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College36 grants · $9.5M
  • New Venture Fund26 grants · $8.6M
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York14 grants · $8.5M
  • Social Science Research Council4 grants · $7.9M
  • Institute of International Education9 grants · $7.3M
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars20 grants · $7.0M
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace21 grants · $6.4M

Giving over time

$161.4M
2021
$147.6M
2022
$148.9M
2023
$173.5M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,368 grants.

  • $3.2M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2021

    For core support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level

  • $3.0M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

    For core support of Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level

  • $3.0M

    National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2022

    For core support for OpenSciEd

  • $3.0M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    For core support of Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level

  • $3.0M

    National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2021

    For a project to increase adoption of OpenSciEd middle school curricula and to continue development of high school science curricula

  • $2.9M

    New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2022

    As a challenge grant for core support of the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities

  • $2.3M

    National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2023

    For core support of OpenSciEd

  • $2.2M

    Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program

  • $2.2M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

    For core support of Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level

  • $2.2M

    Miami Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023

    For core support of Press Forward, a national journalism initiative aimed at improving local news coverage

  • $2.1M

    Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2021

    For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program

  • $2.1M

    New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2023

    As a challenge grant for core support of the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities

  • $2.0M

    International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2024

    As a one-time only grant in support of humanitarian assistance in Sudan

  • $2.0M

    National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024

    As a final core support grant to OpenSciEd

  • $2.0M

    Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program

  • $1.8M

    University of Ghana · 2023

    As a final grant for support of doctoral and early-career fellowships with expansion to four partner universities in Ghana and the region (Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa) - Phase 4)

  • $1.8M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

    For core support of the State Infrastructure Fund, a donor collaborative focused on nonpartisan voter engagement and voting rights

  • $1.8M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    For core support of the State Infrastructure Fund, a donor collaborative focused on nonpartisan voter engagement

  • $1.6M

    Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program

  • $1.6M

    Common Sense Media · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    For project support for digital citizenship resources, library pilot, and annual summit sponsorship

  • $1.5M

    US Chamber of Commerce Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    For project support to expand the National Civics Bee Competition

  • $1.5M

    Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2021

    For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

  • $1.4M

    Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (Ruforum) · 2023

    For doctoral and postdoctoral support focused on women and agriculture

  • $1.4M

    Newschools Venture Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

    As a one-time grant for project support of the priorities enumerated in the FY2024-2026 strategic plan

  • $1.4M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    For core support of the Trust for Civic Life

  • $1.3M

    Transcend · Hastings On Hudson, NY · 2022

    For projects toward Leadership in Equitable Systems

  • $1.3M

    Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2023

    For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

  • $1.3M

    Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2022

    For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

  • $1.3M

    Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2021

    For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

  • $1.3M

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2021

    For a project to continue the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership to support OpenSciEd state and district leadership teams

  • $1.3M

    University of Cape Town · 2023

    For Developing Emerging Academic Leaders (DEAL) and the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA)

  • $1.3M

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

    For core support of the State Infrastructure Fund, a donor collaborative focused on nonpartisan voter engagement

  • $1.3M

    Newschools Venture Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022

    For support of the Innovative Schools, Learning Solutions, Diverse Leaders, and Racial Equity investment areas

  • $1.2M

    New Profit · Boston, MA · 2021

    For incubating and building capacity of organizations to inform policy and practice

  • $1.2M

    Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024

    For support for the expansion of Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City

  • $1.2M

    Institute of International Education · New York, NY · 2024

    For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

  • $1.2M

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Next Einstein Initiative (Rw · 2023

    For an African research chair program in data science and its applications

  • $1.2M

    The Institute for Citizens & Scholars · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    For a project to support the Civic Spring Fellowship to address a significant civic participation opportunity gap nationwide

  • $1.2M

    Carnegie Corporation of New York · New York, NY · 2024

    For the dissemination of the Corporation's work

  • $1.2M

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Next Einstein Initiative Foun · 2021

    As a one-time grant for an African diaspora research chair program in data science

  • $1.2M

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    For support of an initiative to reinvigorate civic education in America

  • $1.2M

    Newschools Venture Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

    As a one-time grant for project support of the priorities enumerated in the FY2024-2026 strategic plan

  • $1.2M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

    For core support of the Trust for Civic Life

  • $1.2M

    Charter Fund · Denver, CO · 2024

    For one time support of Fund IV and Fund V

  • $1.2M

    National Education Opportunity Network · New York, NY · 2024

    For support to expand National Education Equity Lab's model to serve an additional 26,000 additional high school students over three years

  • $1.2M

    The American Exchange Project · Chestnut, MA · 2024

    For general support

  • $1.2M

    Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For core support of the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group

  • $1.2M

    Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    For core support of BuildUS, a collaborative fund aimed at ensuring federal funds are invested in local communities

  • $1.2M

    Immigrant Legal Resource Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For core support of the New Americans Campaign

  • $1.2M

    Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2021

    For new school development, innovation, and capacity-building through Fund IV

  • $1.2M

    Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2021

    For support of the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group

  • $1.1M

    Arab Council for the Social Sciences · 2021

    For a project on knowledge, publics and crisis in the Arab region

  • $1.1M

    University of Cape Town · 2021

    For Developing Emerging Academic Leaders (DEAL) and the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA)

  • $1.1M

    Bscs Science Learning · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023

    As a final general support grant

  • $1.1M

    Heritage and Arts Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023

    For support of the inaugural Utah community service fellowship program

  • $1.1M

    Wested · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For a project to continue into Year 3 of the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership

  • $1.1M

    New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2024

    For project support of College Access and Civic Engagement Programs for Teens with an emphasis on Immigrant Youth and English as a Second Language (ESL) program for adult immigrants throughout New York City

  • $1.1M

    North American Arab Council for the Social Sciences · New York, NY · 2024

    For social science research, training, and networks.

  • $1.0M

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2021

    For core support to the Research Partnership for Professional Learning at New Venture Fund to conduct a multi-site study of the efficacy of curriculum-based professional learning

  • $1.0M

    Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching · Stanford, CA · 2022

    For support of the Advancing Social and Economic Opportunity through Education Initiative

  • $1.0M

    Carnegie Corporation of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    For the dissemination of the Corporation's work

  • $1.0M

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - Next Einstein Initiative (Rw · 2024

    For an African research chair program in data science and its applications

  • $1.0M

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

    For Columbia University's SIPA Institute of Global Politics, Carnegie Distinguished Fellows

  • $1.0M

    Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024

    For project support for an initiative on civic education in New York City Public Schools

  • $1.0M

    Sesame Workshop · New York, NY · 2024

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

    For core support of BuildUS, a collaborative fund aimed at ensuring federal funds are invested in local communities

  • $1.0M

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

    For Columbia University's SIPA Institute of Global Politics, Inaugural Carnegie Distinguished Fellows

  • $1.0M

    Immigrant Legal Resource Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    For core support of the New Americans Campaign

  • $1.0M

    Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2022

    For new school development, innovation, and capacity-building through Fund IV

  • $1.0M

    El Education · New York, NY · 2022

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2022

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    Leading Educators · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    Teaching Lab · Washington, DC · 2022

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    El Education · New York, NY · 2021

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2021

    For general support

  • $1.0M

    International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2021

    For emergency relief efforts toward Ukraine crisis

  • $1.0M

    Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2021

    For EdPrepLab and policy efforts to build a well-prepared, stable, and diverse K-12 educator workforce

  • $972,358

    Carnegie Corporation of New York · New York, NY · 2021

    For the dissemination of the Corporation's work

  • $950,000

    African Population and Health Research Center · 2024

    For core support to the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa

  • $940,000

    Greatschools · Oakland, CA · 2024

    For project support to integrate public library data onto their platform, allowing users to better understand the broader educational ecosystem within their community

  • $925,000

    King'S College London · 2024

    For core support to the African Leadership Centre

  • $925,000

    King'S College London · 2022

    For core support to the African Leadership Centre

  • $921,300

    King'S College London · 2021

    For core support to the African Leadership Centre

  • $910,260

    Associated Press · New York, NY · 2022

    For project support to expand education reporting through the AP Education Reporting Network

  • $900,000

    Cognia · Alpharetta, GA · 2024

    As a final grant to develop, pilot, and bring to market a set of interim science assessments aligned with OpenSciEd courses in high school biology and elementary grades 3-5

  • $900,000

    University of Ghana · 2024

    As a final grant for support of doctoral and early-career fellowships with expansion to four partner universities in Ghana and the region (Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa) - Phase 4)

  • $900,000

    University of Pretoria · 2024

    As a final grant for Future Africa's early-career leadership fellowship program to build transdisciplinary research skills

  • $900,000

    Nuclear Threat Initiative · Washington, DC · 2022

    For general support

  • $900,000

    Nuclear Threat Initiative · Washington, DC · 2021

    For general support

  • $900,000

    Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (Ruforum) · 2021

    For support of competitive early-career fellowships

  • $885,000

    University of Pretoria · 2021

    For Future Africa's early-career leadership fellowship program to build transdisciplinary research skills

  • $875,000

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    For core support of Opportunity Insights

  • $875,000

    Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    As a final grant for core support of the Heartland Fund, a funder collaborative working to strengthen civic engagement in rural communities

  • $875,000

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023

    As a final grant for a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to finalize the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework resources and conduct a research study on student outcomes and implementation of read all
  • $875,000

    Icivics · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    For core support for the CivXNow Coalition

  • $875,000

    International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2023

    For support of its reception center for migrants in New York City

  • $875,000

    Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    For core support of the Heartland Fund, a funder collaborative working to strengthen civic engagement in rural communities

  • $869,900

    University of the Witwatersrand · 2023

    For advancing university transformation through strengthening the early- and mid-career academic pipeline

  • $850,000

    Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2023

    For a project on nuclear command and control and artificial intelligence

  • $850,000

    Science for Africa Foundation · 2023

    For fellowships for early-career scholars in the social sciences and humanities

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