Georgia · Nonprofit
THE CARTER CENTER INC
THE CARTER CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 600 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,470,867 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($121,232,425). 383 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $162M
- Funders on record
- 600
- Grants received
- $255M
- Net assets
- $1.2B
What The Carter Center Inc does
Mission
Mission description the carter center is guided by the principles of our founders, jimmy and rosalynn carter. Founded, in partnership with emory university, on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering, the center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health. 1) the center believes that people can improve their own lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources. 2) the center emphasizes action and measurable results in the lives of the people it seeks to help. 3) the center values the courage to break new ground, fill vacuums, and address the most difficult problems in the most difficult situations. 4) the center recognizes that solving difficult problems requires careful analysis, relentless persistence, and the recognition that failure is an acceptable risk. 5) the center is nonpartisan and it seeks to work collaboratively with other organizations from the highest levels of government to local communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Carter Center Health Programs fight six preventable diseases - Guinea Worm, River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, Schistosomiasis, Trachoma, and Malaria - by using education and simple, low-cost methods. The Center also strives to improve access to mental health care. These efforts have brought to resource limited countries better disease surveillance and health care delivery systems, many established as part of the center's historic campaign to eradicate guinea worm disease. Because communities are often burdened by several diseases, the center is pioneering new public health approaches to efficiently and effectively impact general populations.
$84,356,299 spentof which $4,156,471 as grants69% of program spendingThe Carter Center Peace Programs strengthen freedom and democracy in nations worldwide, securing for the people the political and civil rights that are the foundation of just and peaceful societies. The Center has become a pioneer in election observation, monitoring more than 100 national elections to help ensure that the results reflect the will of the people. Beyond elections, the Center seeks to deepen democracy by nurturing full citizen participation in public policy-making and by helping to establish government institutions that bolster the rule of law, fair administration of justice, access to information, and government transparency. A culture of respect for human rights is crucial to permanent peace. The Center supports the efforts of human rights activists at the grass roots, while also working to advance national and international human rights laws that uphold the dignity and worth of each individual. When democracy backslides or formal democracy fails, the Carter Center offers conflict resolution expertise and has furthered avenues for peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
$30,690,859 spentof which $3,118,971 as grants25% of program spendingThe Carter Center receives broad-based support which is beneficial to all programs and is categorized as cross-program. Expenses aid the achievement of the other program service goals and are considered additions to program service expense.
$7,443,677 spentof which $105,000 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,490,835.
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 $946M to $1.3B (+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 19% · 2018 23% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of THE CARTER CENTER 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. 0 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
Paige Alexander
CEO
Board chair
Jason Carter
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 167 funders to 257 funders, grant income rose $25M → $33M.
51 of 600 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $30M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Tansy Charitable Foundation); $5.5M from 28 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CARTER CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CARTER CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 600 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
THE CARTER CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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 61% · 2018 50% · 2019 56% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — 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 THE CARTER CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE CARTER CENTER INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
THE CARTER CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 98 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE CARTER CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.9M on record.
- Agency for International Development$31.5M
- Department of State$6.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$656k
- General Services Administration$240k
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 THE CARTER CENTER 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 1 related entity
- The Carter Center Collaborative Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC?
- THE CARTER CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 600 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,470,867 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($121,232,425). 383 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CARTER CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 600 organizations giving $255,470,867 in grants to THE CARTER CENTER INC, 383 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CARTER CENTER INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $121,232,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CARTER CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 600 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