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12 funders with a record of paying for “carnegie”
Where the money went
Largest: $739,000 to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — for core support to the middle east program and the malcolm h. kerr carnegie middle east center
Largest: $5.0M to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to launch the center for shared prosperity at carnegie mellon university: (the "center"), a university-community partnership to address barriers to equality in pittsburgh
Largest: $125,000 to CARNEGIE INSTITUTECARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART — 58th carnegie international
Largest: $700,000 to CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — to build a new avian research facility to house an enhanced research program and expand public programming
Largest: $109,086 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to support the k-12 outreach efforts of carnegie mellon universitys learning sciences initiative
Largest: $1.5M to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains
Largest: $192,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — simons investigator in computer science
Largest: $500,000 to CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — to support ceip's research and initiative to elevate ukrainian policy-oriented and scholarly perspectives, and to build a network of ukraine-based experts
Largest: $1.0M to CARNEGIE FDN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING — for support of a network of school systems focused on moving beyond the carnegie unit
Largest: $1.8M to CARNEGIE LEARNING INC — research, learning & innovation opportunities
Largest: $120,000 to CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES INSTRUMENTATION PRO — carnegie-caltech brinson postdoctoral fellowship in observational astronomy
Largest: $100,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to support a nonpartisan policy translation fellowship at the center for informed democracy and social-cybersecurity at carnegie mellon university.
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →