Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,847,531 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($19,309,700). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $131M
- Net assets
- $559M
What Carnegie Endowment for International Peace does
Mission
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance peace.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Middle east - the middle east program combines in-depth regional knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to provide deeply informed recommendations. With expertise in the gulf, north africa, iran, and israel/palestine, the program examines crosscutting themes of political, economic, and social change in both english and arabic. The program works together with the malcolm h. Kerr carnegie middle east centerbased in beirut and draws on regional experts to provide in-depth analysis of political, socioeconomic, and security issues in the middle east and north africa. The center delivers on-the-ground research of the region's challenges, examines long-term geopolitical trends, and proposes innovative policy options. As freedom of expression has become increasingly restricted in the wider middle east, the center also creates a space for people across the region to convene and share diverse perspectives.
$5,335,405 spent$539 earned by the program12% of program spendingRussia and eurasia - the russia and eurasia program continues carnegie's long tradition of independent research on major political, societal, and security trends in and u.s. Policy toward aregion that has been upended by russia's war against ukraine. Leaders regularly turn to our work for clear-eyed, relevant analyses on the region to inform their policy decisions. The program works together with the carnegie russia eurasia center based in berlin, which is home to the world's leading regional experts on russia and the wider region. The center's scholars and digital media platform,carnegie politika, deliver independent analysis and strategic insight that are unique among research institutions. That analysis focuses on major policy challenges across the entire region in the wake of russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine, including responding to vladimir putin's behavior and countering disinformation.
$4,297,144 spent$772,412 earned by the program10% of program spendingNuclear policy - the nuclear policy program aims to reduce the risk of nuclear war. The program's experts diagnose acute risks stemming from technical and geopolitical developments, generate pragmatic solutions, and use carnegie's global network to advance risk-reduction policies. The program's work covers deterrence, disarmament, arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy.
$4,000,451 spent$131,669 earned by the program9% of program spendingEurope
$3,952,193 spent$370,719 earned by the program9% of program spendingCommunications
$3,621,419 spent8% of program spendingAsia
$3,140,583 spent$606 earned by the program7% of program spendingSouth asia
$3,121,434 spent$522 earned by the program7% of program spendingDemocracy, conflict, and governance
$2,560,969 spent$1,163 earned by the program6% of program spendingAmerican statecraft
$2,447,159 spent5% of program spendingTechnology and international affairs
$2,362,864 spent5% of program spendingInformation technology
$2,192,319 spent5% of program spendingSustainability, climate, and geopolitics
$1,802,620 spent4% of program spendingAfrica
$1,391,243 spent3% of program spendingCarnegie california
$1,363,633 spent$405,118 earned by the program3% of program spendingAdministrative-president
$1,305,758 spent3% of program spendingThe visiting distinguished statesman pro
$701,370 spent2% of program spendingGlobal order and institutions
$645,993 spent1% of program spendingLibrary
$595,252 spent1% of program spendingConference center
$208,873 spent$1,595 earned by the program0% of program spendingBuilding
$0 spent$854,092 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 20 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,046,682.
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 2020 to 2021, from $401M to $535M (+33%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Ashley Tellis
Tata chair for strategic affairs
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $7.0M → $26M.
24 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Tavitian Foundation II Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE raised.
From the IRS filings of CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 funders by total. 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 ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 31% · 2019 33% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
49% of CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Energy$839k
- Department of Defense$677k
- Department of State$125k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace India · disregarded
- Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Gmbh · disregarded
- Carnegie Europe Foundation · disregarded
- Carnegie China Ltd · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE?
- CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,847,531 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($19,309,700). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $130,847,531 in grants to CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $19,309,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 114 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing