Columbia University's Carnegie Corp. of NY Foundation's Connection Revisited

In October 2023, Tel Aviv University [TAU]-affiliated Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs [SIPA] Professor and Co-Director of Columbia's Institute of Global Politics [IGP], Hillary Clinton, expressed support for the IDF's post-Oct. 7, 2023 military attacks on people in Gaza and the then-Biden White House and then-Tony Blinken-led U.S. State Department's policy of shipping more weapons to the IDF, between October, 2023 and Jan. 20, 2025; despite the evidence that emerged as early as mid-October 2023 that large numbers of Palestinian non-combatant civilians were being killed or wounded in Gaza by the U.S. government-backed Israeli war machine.

Yet, as a press release posted on the website of the Carnegie Corp. of NY foundation on Sept. 11, 2025 indicated, among the 94 grants, totaling over $63 million, authorized by the Carnegie Corp. of NY's board of trustees at its September 2025 meeting was a "charitable" grant of $1 million to TAU-affiliated Columbia University "for core support of the Institute of Global Politics" that Columbia SIPA Professor Hillary Clinton co-directs.

In addition, as the Carnegie Corp. of NY foundation's Form 990 financial filing for 2023 indicates, prior to giving this September 2025 "charitable" grant to Columbia U. of $1 million "for core support of" Columbia Professor Clinton's IGP, between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, the same foundation had previously given another $1 million "charitable" grant to Columbia's SIPA for the "Carnegie Distinguished Fellows" program of Columbia Professor Clinton's IGP; as well as a $500,000 "charitable" grant to Bill and Hillary Clinton's Clinton Foundation "toward the expansion" of its "student presidential leaders series," during this same Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024 historical period.

And, according to data posted on the Carnegie Corp. of NY foundation website, between 2023 and December 17, 2025, Columbia University/Teachers College of Columbia U. (one of the largest institutional owners of real estate in Manhattan) received 15 "charitable" grants, totaling $8.5 million, from the Carnegie Corp. of NY foundation.

One reason the U.S. power elite's Carnegie Corp. of NY "philanthropic" foundation--whose assets exceeded $4.5 billion, whose net investment income exceeded $181 million and whose excess of revenue over expenses and "charitable" grant disbursements was over $90.3 million in 2024--may be so eager to shift the money it obtains from its investments (in things like hedge funds and corporations doing business with Israeli institutions or providing weapons to the IDF or for U.S. war machine use in a possible military attack on Venezuela, etc.) into "charitable" grants to institutions like TAU-affiliated Columbia U., might be because Carnegie Corp. of NY's board of trustees includes trustees who, not surprisingly, are also affiliated with Columbia University.

Carnegie Corp. of NY Trustee Jean-Marie Gue'henno, for example, is a Columbia University SIPA professor (like Hillary Clinton) and apparently heads Columbia SIPA's "Kent Global Leadership Program." And besides being both a Carnegie Corp. of NY trustee and a Columbia SIPA professor in recent years, Gue'henno is also both the "French Institute for Higher Defense Studies Scientific Council" Chair and a former president of a commission which produced a "French White Paper for Defense and National Security;" as well as being a former UN Undersecretary General (who occupied that UN position during the same period when another current Carnegie Corp. of NY trustee--former U.S. Sec. of Defense and U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin III--was then leading the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, after the GOP's Bush II-Cheney administration ordered U.S. troops to attack Iraq in 2003).

And Carnegie Corp. of NY Trustee Maria Elena Lagomasino--besides being a former JP Morgan Private Bank Chair and CEO, who has been sitting on both the Coca-Cola Company and the Walt Disney Company corporate boards in recent years--is also a member of the Columbia University Law School's Millstein Center's Advisory Board.

In addition, the executive director of the Columbia University Earth Institute's "Women, Peace and Security Program," Leymah Gbowee, also sits on the Carnegie Corp. of NY board of trustees--whose current board of trustees chair, Janet L. Robinson, is a retired president, CEO and board of directors member of the for-profit New York Times Company corporate media firm (which was also given two "charitable" grants, totaling $250,000, by the Carnegie Corp. of NY foundation between 2023 and 2025.)

According to its Form 990 financial filing for 2023, among the other "charitable" grants authorized by the Carnegie Corp. of NY's board of trustees, between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, were the following "charitable" grants:

1. A $260,000 grant to Mark L. Goldberg LLC "for support of Global Dispatches podcast";

2. A $200,000 grant to the Associated Press [AP] news agency (which was, previously, the recipient of a $1 million "charitable" grant from the Carnegie Corop. of NY in 2021);

3. Two grants, totaling $625,000, for future payments to the Teacher's College of Columbia University "for core support of The Hechinger Report";

4. A $750,000 grant to the "Student Leadership Network" of NYC "for core support of Student Leadership Network New York;"

5. A $500,000 grant to the Russell Sage Foundation;

6. Four grants, totaling over $4.4 million, to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors;

7. A $200,000 grant to Columbia University "for support of an oral history project on Carnegie Corp.";

8. A $41,069 grant to Columbia University "for support of Carnegie Corp. of NY archive:;

9. An $825,000 grant to Columbia University for its "Center for Public Research and Leadership research `study'";

10. A $500,000 grant to the University of California-Berkeley;

11. A $750,000 grant to the Civic News Co. "for core support of Chalkbeat";

12. Two grants, totaling $600,000, to the WGBH Foundation;"

13. A $335,000 grant to San Francisco, California-based "Talking Points";

14. A $199,000 grant to the San Francisco, California-based Think Media;

15. A $500,000 grant to the Oakland, California-based New Public;

16. A $2,138,000 grant to the Oakland, California-based New Schools Venture Fund; and

17. Two grants, totaling $1,160,000, to the Council on Foreign Relations.

And among the additional other "charitable" grant authorized by the Carnegie Corp. of NY board of trustees on Sept. 11, 2025 were the following grants:

1. A $500,000 grant to the University of California-Berkeley;

2. Two grants, totaling $1 million, to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers;

3. A $750,000 grant to the WGBH Educational Fund;

4. A $1 million grant to the Council on Foreign Relations;

5. Two grants, totaling $1,210,000, to the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS];

6. A $500,000 grant to the National Endowment for Democracy [NED] "for support of the Journal of Democracy"; and

7. A $20,000 grant to the Beverly Hills, California-based "Israel-American Academic Exchange" group, purportedly "for support of two conferences on countering polarization through academic collaboration."

Between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, incidentally, the "non-profit" Carnegie Corp. of NY's then-president, Louise Richardson, was paid a total annual compensation of over $1.1 million and the foundation's then-chief investment officer was paid an annual total compensation of over $1.2 million, according to its Form 990 financial filing for 2023.