Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,278,764 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($12,528,000). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funders
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio match
- Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Managerportfolio match
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.
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 (55% 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
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 191 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 191 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 21% 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 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; 71% 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
95% 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 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 191 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Managerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dmr Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allegheny Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · funds 137 organizations near you
- Posner Foundation of Pittsburghshared fundersPA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocalPA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 123 organizations near you
- Fisa Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 122 organizations near you
- Jefferson Regional Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 145 organizations near you
- McElhattan Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Opportunity Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · funds 223 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE?
- CARNEGIE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,278,764 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($12,528,000). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $60,278,764 in grants to CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, 135 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.
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 191funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing