Carnegie Corporation of New York Board Approves 57 Grants Totaling $38,485,000
At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on December 11, 2025, Carnegie Corporation of New York’s board of trustees approved 57 grants totaling $38,485,000. Brief descriptions of each board-approved grant are provided below.
Dec 16, 2025
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
The Africa Center (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $900,000 for a project to establish culture and heritage protection as strategic peacebuilding tools through a Peace and Memory Lab initiative in Sudan
Atlantic Council of the United States (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $385,000 for a project assessing the capabilities to reduce further nuclear escalation after first nuclear use as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
Brown University (Providence, RI)
36-month grant of $900,000 for a project to strengthen biological threat reduction capabilities across Africa
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $500,000 for core support of the Nuclear Policy Program
Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $325,000 for a project on understanding public attitudes of nuclear proliferation among U.S. allies
Council on Strategic Risks (Washington, D.C.)
12-month grant of $350,000 for a project to strengthen the Outer Space Treaty and deter nuclear weaponization of space as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project to provide training in strategic force analysis
George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $450,000 for the Project on Media and National Security
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $320,000 for the Scoville Peace Fellowship
Inkstick Media (Frederick, MD)
24-month grant of $450,000 for Things that Go Boom
Institute for Security and Technology (Oakland, CA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator to bridge the knowledge gap between nuclear policy and artificial intelligence
Institute of International Education (New York, NY)
18-month grant of $1,300,000 for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Inter Mediate (London, United Kingdom)
24-month grant of $400,000 for a project on strengthening crisis channels and arms control pathways across critical nuclear dyads as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for a feasibility study on the verification of nuclear weapons in orbit under the Outer Space Treaty as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $350,000 for U.S.-Russia Track II dialogues on strategic stability
National Security Archive Fund (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $350,000 for a study on nuclear targeting, civilian casualties, and the laws of war
New America (Washington, D.C.)
12-month grant of $400,000 for a project to explore options to reduce escalation after first nuclear use as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
Outrider Foundation (Madison, WI)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project training journalists in nuclear weapons issues
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $600,000 for core support of Managing the Atom
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
24-month grant of $800,000 for core support of the Program on Science and Global Security
Public Radio Exchange (Cambridge, MA)
24-month grant of $400,000 for core support to The World
The Reckoning Project (Falls Church, VA)
24-month grant of $475,000 for a project on developing scalable documentation and archiving models for conflict-affected African communities
ReThink Media (San Francisco, CA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for a project to improve the communications capacity of the U.S. non-governmental sector engaged with nuclear issues
Search for Common Ground (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $450,000 for a project to develop social digital twin simulations for nuclear risk reduction as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
St. Antony’s College (Oxford, United Kingdom)
36-month grant of $1,125,000 for the University Consortium
University of Global Health Equity (Burera, Rwanda)
24-month grant of $850,000 for support for the Consortium of Medical Schools in Africa
University of Pretoria (Hatfield, South Africa)
36-month grant of $650,000 for a project on transforming peacekeeping and peacebuilding knowledge through direct engagement with multiple African publics
University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison, WI)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project to develop an integrated, open-access model that simulates the full spectrum of the consequences of nuclear conflict as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
U.S. Pugwash (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $500,000 for general support
Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (London, United Kingdom)
24-month grant of $300,000 for a project providing open-source estimates of the Chinese nuclear program as part of a request for proposals for the consortium to reduce nuclear dangers
WNET (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $450,000 for GZero World with Ian Bremmer
NATIONAL PROGRAM
The Association for Rural & Small Libraries (Seattle, WA)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for project support to strengthen broadband access and digital literacy in rural communities by providing direct support to Carnegie rural libraries
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
18-month grant of $1,000,000 for project support for the pilot and launch of the Second Transcript
Build UP (Birmingham, AL)
24-month grant of $600,000 for project support to expand to Selma, Alabama, and Brownsville, Texas
Center for Tech and Civic Life (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for general support
Children’s Aid (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $1,250,000 to provide college and career support to New York City youth through community centers
College Unbound (Providence, RI)
18-month grant of $350,000 for project support for the expansion of public service pathways and degree completion opportunities for adult learners
Internationals Network for Public Schools (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $1,125,000 for general support
Mediators Foundation (Boulder, CO)
24-month grant of $500,000 for core support of AllSides Education’s media and news literacy in schools initiative
Modern States Education Alliance (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $900,000 for project support to expand the Freshman Year for Free program
National Association for Media Literacy Education (Albany, NY)
24-month grant of $600,000 for project support to build the foundation for scalable, cross-curricular integration of media literacy
National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO)
24-month grant of $250,000 for support of a project on immigration policies in state legislatures
NEO Philanthropy (New York, NY)
12-month grant of $2,000,000 for support of Four Freedoms Fund’s nonpartisan civic engagement work
NEO Philanthropy (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for core support of the Voting Rights Working Group
News Literacy Project (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $1,200,000 for general support
Nonprofit VOTE (Waltham, MA)
36-month grant of $400,000 for support of National Voter Registration Day
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
12-month grant of $250,000 for project support to the Applied Social Media Lab to implement the Frankly platform in youth dialogue projects
Public Private Strategies Institute (Washington, D.C.)
24-month grant of $250,000 for support of a project mobilizing small businesses for legal immigration pathways
Teachers College, Columbia University (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $300,000 for project support of participatory budgeting simulations
Theirworld USA (New York, NY)
18-month grant of $400,000 for project support of Theirworld’s peace, security, and education task team of Global Youth Ambassadors
Vot-ER (Boston, MA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for general support
Welcoming America (Decatur, GA)
24-month grant of $500,000 for support of a project to reshape the narrative about immigrants in new destination states
YMCA of the U.S.A. (Chicago, IL)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 for project support of the Youth and Government program
CROSS PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (New York, NY)
24-month grant of $2,000,000 for project support to advance civic engagement and democracy education through hands-on, experiential learning opportunities
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
American Academy in Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
36-month grant of $330,000 in support of the American Academy in Berlin fellows program
National Theatre in America (New York, NY)
36-month grant of $600,000 in support of the expansion of the National Theatre Collection in the U.S. program
Rodel Institute (Phoenix, AZ)
24-month grant of $1,000,000 in support of the Rodel congressional fellowship program