The 2025 award recipients were announced on March 24, 2025. The Carnegie family of institutions will award the medals during a formal ceremony hosted in Edinburgh on May 7, 2025, marking the third time it is held in the U.K. since its inception in 2001. The ceremony will be will be hosted by the three U.K.-based Carnegie institutions: Carnegie UK, The Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

The 2025 medalists are Carol Colburn Grigor CBE; Barbara and Amos Hostetter; and Joseph and Jeanette Neubauer.

The 2025 Catalyst Award is presented to the British charity Comic Relief.

The list of all past recipients can be found here.

Inaugurated on December 10, 2001, by representatives from 22 of the institutions that Andrew Carnegie founded throughout the world, the medal was established at the centennial observance of the start of Mr. Carnegie’s official career as a philanthropist and is awarded every two years.

The goal of the medal is to inspire a culture of giving by celebrating innovative philanthropists and by informing the conversation about the field. The medalists are helping to make the world smarter, cleaner, healthier, and more equitable. By honoring their efforts, we seek to encourage others to join them in making the world a better place for all.

The medalists are individuals who share Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropic ideals of doing “real and permanent good in this world,” and are selected based on their roles as catalysts for good, seeking to create a world of positive change. To date, more than 65 philanthropists have been honored with the medal.

The criteria for selection are threefold: medalists must have a vision of philanthropy that reflects the ideals and breadth of Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy; the work of the philanthropist must have a sustainable track record; and the medalists must have made a significant impact on a particular field, nation, or group of people, either nationally or internationally.

The selection process consists of nominations from the leadership of the Carnegie family of 22 institutions founded by Andrew Carnegie. The selection committee is comprised of four members of the steering committee that organized the inaugural medal—Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and the Carnegie Trusts for the Universities of Scotland—along with two additional Carnegie institutions, which rotate onto the committee at each award cycle. William Thomson, great-grandson of Andrew Carnegie and former chair of Carnegie UK, is honorary chair of the selection committee.

Each recipient is presented with a bronze medal and a portrait bust of Andrew Carnegie —an original work of art cast in bronze and created exclusively for the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.

The Carnegie Catalyst Award was created in memory of the late Vartan Gregorian, past president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and cofounder of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. The Catalyst Award honors a nonprofit organization that has been exceptionally effective in catalyzing people’s inherent desire to help one another—an ideal embodied through Gregorian’s life and work.

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