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CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC
CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,446,553 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,747,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Inc does
Mission
We empower ethics by identifying and addressing the most critical ethical issues of today and tomorrow. Founded by andrew carnegie over a century ago, carnegie council works to empower ethics across international relations and defend the moral principles of international cooperation, democracy, fidelity, and humanitarianism.the council's global ethics hub at 170 east 64th st in new york city is the only civic space with the sole purpose of empowering ethics in international affairs. It serves as a global gathering point for individuals, organizations, and institutions to convene in good faith to address humanity's most pressing challenges. Carnegie council for ethics in international affairs is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. Impact initiatives these are multi-year programs that identify a pressing ethical issue(s), convene leading experts, and produce agenda-setting resources to educate and activate key communities. Each impact initiative has an issue specific set of targeted goals and measured outcomes that it aims to achieve by the end of the initiative. 2. Next generation leadership carnegie council's program to invest in and engage with future leaders consists of the carnegie ethics fellows, the carnegie college program, and the carnegie global ethics hub in new york city.
$1,547,652 spentof which $15,566 as grants43% of program spendingEach year, our global ethics studio produces a multitude of free-to-access content, events, and educational resources reaching audiences across 200 countries. Highlights include: - values & interest podcast the "values & interests" podcast and event series takes a deep dive into the ethical tensions and tradeoffs at the heart of decision-making across geopolitics, tech, philosophy, and business.- carnegie roundtables with a focus on attendee participation, this series leverages the physical space of the council and its recognition as a destination for civic engagement to convene experts on ethics and international affairs. - president's desk in a series of events, articles, and newsletters, carnegie council president joel rosenthal aims to translate ethics, analyze democracy, and examine the increasingly interconnected world.
$1,221,164 spentof which $11,584 as grants34% of program spendingEthics & international affairs journal (eia) the journal is carnegie council's flagship publication. It is published quarterly with cambridge university press and is home to scholarship, research, and ethical discussion. Each year, eia articles receive over 250,000 downloads and are featured in syllabi across 30 countries.
$492,762 spentof which $23,216 as grants14% of program spendingThe carnegie ethics accelerator this accelerator program serves as an issue incubator to address and empower the application of ethical decision making to frontier issues in technology and public policy. The accelerator programs typically takes place over a short to medium project timeframe compared to the impact initiatives. The accelerator methodology can be applied to a range of emerging ethical issues and is designed to amplify an issue area, identify solutions, generate novel policy instruments and guiding principles, and catalyze action around the issue.
$370,219 spentof which $84,742 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,631,797.
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 2024 to 2025, from $36M to $58M (+61%).
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 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Anthony Faillace
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $340k → $663k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC’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
CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 76% · 2020 83% · 2021 58% · 2022 36% · 2023 79% — 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
38% of CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
72% of CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Carnegie Council Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC?
- CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,446,553 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,747,900). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $7,446,553 in grants to CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $2,747,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE COUNCIL FOR ETHICS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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