Andrew Carnegie Foundation

• The Andrew Carnegie Foundation funds work in education, democracy and peace, with its National Program backing educational opportunities, election and legal immigration reforms, and people working across differences, and its International Program focused on preventing and managing conflict, mass migration and displacement, and the influence of non-state actors, so check your project sits within these themes before approaching it.
• Its geographic focus is nationally and internationally, with no specific place named as a priority.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants to organisations fall between $75,000 and $585,000, with a median of $200,000, so a modest request in that range is realistic; its largest grant, to Neo Philanthropy, reflects a long-standing annual regranting relationship rather than a typical size to ask for.
• The IRS filing gives no deadlines, and a letter of inquiry can be submitted through its grants portal, but nearly all funded organisations are identified and contacted by programme officers, with collaborative planning generally preceding an award, and a large share of its grant dollars each year goes to organisations it has already funded, so this looks like a relationship-led funder where unsolicited approaches may carry less weight.
• It does not fund construction, maintenance of facilities, endowments, program-related investments, individuals, or local or regional community service organisations, so these should not apply.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Neo Philanthropy · For core support of Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level
  $2,166,7002024 tax year
• Social Science Research Council · For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• International Rescue Committee · As a one-time only grant in support of humanitarian assistance in Sudan
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• National Center for Civic Innovation · As a final core support grant to OpenSciEd
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Neo Philanthropy · For core support of the State Infrastructure Fund, a donor collaborative focused on nonpartisan voter engagement and voting rights
  $1,750,0002024 tax year
• Common Sense Media · For project support for digital citizenship resources, library pilot, and annual summit sponsorship
  $1,550,0002024 tax year
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation · For project support to expand the National Civics Bee Competition
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• Bard College · For support for the expansion of Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City
  $1,200,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.