California · Nonprofit
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,532,507 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($17,433,052). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $162M
What Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching does
Programs
Future of learning we aim to catalyze a broad-scale shift to competency-based systems of secondary schooling. Projects within the future of learning include efforts to spur creation of more innovative and high-quality high school learning experiences that are not based on the credit hour; convening networks of educators from around the country to share learnings about how to create more engaging and relevant learning for students that has real-world value; engaging stakeholders in the field and communicating stories to advance our vision of what a competency-based high school experience could look like.
$7,098,356 spentInnovation and impact pursuing actionable research: we study the catalyzing forces in both high school and postsecondary that allow innovations to root, sustain and scale. The carnegie lab will anchor this knowledge-building work (in collaboration with several research partners) guided by two primary questions: 1)how and to what effect are partners developing the new architecture for high school learning? 2)what are the catalyzing forces (e.g., policy, tools, demand) that help to root, sustain and scale transformation? In this body of work, the foundation is also partnering closely with education testing service (ets) to research, develop, and test the next generation of skills assessments - one that is based on competency and is both useful for the student and has meaning to postsecondary schools and employers.
$3,798,187 spentImprovement the foundation has historically advocated for the high- quality use of improvement science to address the nations most important educational equity challenges. In fy25, the foundation moved to wind down this line of work. For example, the main activity in this budget category was the carnegie summit on improvement in education. In 2025, the foundation organized its last summit and handed it to a new organization to steward the event going forward. The projects continuing in this budget category are those that aim to design and build online courses and self-service resources to allow more people to access improvement principles, tools, and methods.
$2,937,582 spentPostsecondary innovation our main aim is to spur the postsecondary sector to become a more powerful engine of economic opportunity, to focus more decidedly on student outcomes, and to drive institutional improvement in ways that increase access to higher education for low-income students and improve results sector-wide. Projects within postsecondary innovation include efforts with strategic research partners to identify innovators that demonstrate notable acceleration of economic mobility. We share findings with a broad range of stakeholders, focusing on leaders of ihes and institutions and individuals that influence state and federal policy.
$1,759,798 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
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 $126M to $150M (+20%).
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
Diane Tavenner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $5.9M → $11M.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING’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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 34% · 2019 90% · 2020 36% · 2021 62% · 2022 68% · 2023 35% — 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
47% of CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.
- National Science Foundation$625k
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 FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING?
- CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,532,507 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($17,433,052). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $60,532,507 in grants to CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING?
- XQ INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $17,433,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 21 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