ICYMI: After 115 years, the Carnegie Corporation of New York is a foundation after all

In case you missed it: the Carnegie Corporation of New York is–and always has been–a foundation. And just in case this wasn’t obvious to, well… everyone, that 115-year-old, anachronistic, if slightly confusing, but all the same charming name has now been plowed under like so much sod, ready for spring planting. The foundation has rebranded as the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. On becoming Carnegie president in 2022, Louise Richardson was, from the get-go, at great pains to explain that the storied foundation, with a century-old pedigree and very long list of philanthropic accomplishments, to say nothing of its $5 billion endowment and $220 million in annual giving, was/is/always will be a foundation. And just in case awarding up to 30% of its annual grants internationally didn’t make things sufficiently clear relative to its areas of interest, the “New York” has also been dropped from the name. Because.