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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.9MScience & Tech$30k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONROE CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORTATION$100,000
NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE$100,000
PORTAGE SCHOOL OF LEADERS$100,000
CANON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
ALDINE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
SPRINGFILED EMPOWERMENT ZONE$100,000
CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECH$100,000
EDNOVATE$100,000
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUC$100,000
SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
CSC OF EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY$100,000
ROANOKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
BUILDING 21$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCHOOLS THAT LEAD INC: $6k → 10%CALIFORNIA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 12%BUILDING 21: $100k → 22%SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100k → 7%WEST ED: $444k → 10%HIGH TECH HIGH: $5k → 11%EDNOVATE: $100k → 14%NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUC: $100k → 17%AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECH: $100k → 16%ALDINE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 16%GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100k → 11%PIPER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 16%LIBERTY 53 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 8%CROSSTOWN HIGH: $100k → 17%MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 9%NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE: $100k → 15%CANON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 17%CSC OF EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY: $100k → 5%CONCORD COMMUNITY SCHOOOL CORPOR: $100k → 13%PORTAGE SCHOOL OF LEADERS: $100k → 13%MONROE CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORTATION: $100k → 15%PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOLS: $100k → 16%AKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100k → 13%NORTHERN CASS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST: $100k → 12%ROANOKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100k → 8%COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF HENRICO COU: $100k → 9%JAMIES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 29%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
KS
TN
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTED: $444,345 · OtherWESTEDGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherPIPER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherCSC OF EASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherLIBERTY 53 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherCONCORD COMMUNITY SCHOOOL CORPOR: $100,000 · OtherMOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherCANON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherAldine Independent School District: $100,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUC: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherAKRON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherMONROE CENTRAL SCHOOL CORPORTATION: $100,000 · OtherNORTHERN CASS PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST: $100,000 · OtherPORTAGE SCHOOL OF LEADERS: $100,000 · OtherROANOKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100,000 · OtherNORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE: $100,000 · OtherCOUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF HENRICO COU: $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECH: $100,000 · Other+3 more: $45,000 · OtherSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · EducationSUMMIT PUBLIC SC…BUILDING 21: $100,000 · EducationBUILDING 21SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD EMPO…EDNOVATE INC: $100,000 · EducationEDNOVATE INC+2 more: $11,000 · Education
Other$2,489,345Education$411,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING 21: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEDNOVATE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH TECH HIGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING 21 ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds EDNOVATE INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLS THAT LEAD ↗
  • Who funds HIGH TECH HIGH ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Schools FundGates FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
New Schools FundCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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