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CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,833,899 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($12,528,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116M
- Funders on record
- 197
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $628M
What Carnegie Institute does
Mission
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions:the Carnegie Institute comprises four diverse, dynamic museums including the carnegie museum of art (cmoa), the carnegie museum of natural history (cmnh), the carnegie science center (csc), and the andy warhol museum (awm). Throughout 2024, each museum offered a rich and diverse roster of exhibitions and programs. See schedule o for highlights of each museum's exhibit initiatives.the Carnegie Institute offers memberships at a reduced rate or for free to various groups in the community, including family access memberships, teen memberships, and organizational outreach memberships (the last of these for clients of public-serving non-profit organizations).the andy warhol museumthe andy warhol museum (awm) is the most comprehensive single artist museum in the world, illuminating the art, life, and times of one of the most influential american artists of the 20th century. The museum explores the world through the lens of warhol's life and work, mounting innovative original exhibitions and thought-provoking traveling exhibitions, presenting genre-based performances, and showcasing up and coming acts, including young artists from pittsburgh, warhol's hometown. In may 2024,…
$47,091,779 spent$22,569,312 earned by the program70% of program spendingEducation:each of the four museums has dedicated professionals focused on providing rich educational experience to its visitors as well as local schools and other off-site partners.see schedule o for highlights of each museum's education initiatives.the andy warhol museumthe warhol creative, the pop district's boutique production studio, provided workforce opportunities for the community, with more than 200 local and national clients, and produced its first feature documentary, which tells the 10 year story of the lgbtq+ youth prom. Additionally, 600 participants completed workforce develoment programs through the warhol academy, including 60 paid fellows in digital content creation and filmmaking/post-production and 200 paid high school-aged program participants. The pop district also acquired a license by the commonwealth of pennsylvania's department of education to grant free diplomas for profssional seeking post-secondary training in digital marketing, averaging more than 40 graduates.the carnegie science center - csc (renamed the daniel g. And carole l. Kamin center in september 2025)carnegie science center inspires curiosity and connects science and technology to everyday…
$20,182,191 spent$2,123,463 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,273,970.
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 $541M to $649M (+20%).
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 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 14% · 2023 17% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CARNEGIE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Steven Knapp
President/chief executive officer
Board chair
Geovette E Washington
Trustee: chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 95 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $11M.
20 of 197 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $10M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Pittsburgh Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CARNEGIE INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of CARNEGIE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 197 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 INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 23% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of CARNEGIE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
91% of CARNEGIE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 54 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 54 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding CARNEGIE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.2M on record — $9.0M federal, $130k state.
- National Science Foundation$2.6M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.8M
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$985k
- Department of the Interior$378k
- MA$95k
- VT$35k
- OK$428
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 INSTITUTE
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 Pennsylvania
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
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Carnegie Institute Trust · disregarded
- Ci4 Ventures LLC · disregarded
- John Berdan Memorial Trust · exempt
- The Dietrich Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE?
- CARNEGIE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 197 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,833,899 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($12,528,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 197 organizations giving $62,833,899 in grants to CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, 138 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE INSTITUTE?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,528,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 197 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