Funding search · EIN 131879954 · New York, NY

The Andrew W Mellon Foundation

$1.59B
in grants paid: 2,231
grants: 1,249
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$8.6M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To support the administration and annual institutional renewals for the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship program
$7.0M
City of Richmond · Richmond, VA · 2024
To support the planning, development, and initial operations of a cultural space located at the shockoe bottom train shed that memorializes and commemorates the history of slavery in richmond
$5.6M
The International Association of Blacks in Dance · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a regranting program to artists and companies driving the future of black dance
$5.0M
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the american archive of public broadcasting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use
$5.0M
Freedom Reads · Hamden, CT · 2024
To provide major renewed support to freedom reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity
$4.3M
Montpelier Foundation · Montpelier Station, VA · 2024
To support the creation of a memorial to the individuals who were enslaved at montpelier
$4.0M
Monument Lab · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support the expansion of the re:generation program, field building, narrative change work, and general operations
$4.0M
Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to south central
$3.5M
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the african american cultural heritage action funds grantmaking, programs, marketing, expanded technical assistance for prospective grantees, and three signature preservation projects
$3.5M
Fidelity Charitable · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Matching gift
$3.5M
Hunter College · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for the center for puerto rican studies rooted & relational initiative
$3.4M
The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the chicago monuments project and citywide community-initiated commemorative initiatives and installations
$3.0M
University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To continue support for visualizing abolition
$3.0M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development and initial work of the new office of human dignity
$2.9M
California State University at Fresno · Fresno, CA · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$2.9M
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for the writing freedom fellowship
$2.9M
Museum Am Rothenbaum · 2024
To support digital benins next phase, and an open source repository of software and tools accessible to other digital heritage projects
$2.7M
Bureau of Indian Affairs · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the establishment of an oral history project as part of the federal indian boarding school initiative
$2.5M
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for a research and training program for advanced graduate students
$2.5M
Miami Valley Public Media · Yellow Springs, OH · 2024
To support the preservation of historical audio collections held by campus radio stations at historically black colleges and universities
$2.5M
Old Dominion University · Norfolk, VA · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$2.5M
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the latinx theater initiative
$2.5M
Alliance for California Traditional Arts · Fresno, CA · 2024
To support organizational capacity and a national fellowship for traditional artists
$2.5M
City University of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support the further development of black, race, and ethnic studies across the cuny system
$2.5M
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support a regranting program for the digitization of materials
$2.5M
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support a national grantmaking competition for digitization of materials that deepen public understanding of people and communities that have been historically underrepresented
$2.3M
Texas a&M University · College Station, TX · 2024
To support an initiative that centers interdisciplinary humanistic scholarship
$2.3M
Kinfolk Tech Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To continue support for the kinfolk ar monuments app and digital archive
$2.3M
Web Du Bois Museum Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support historic preservation and conservation work at the w.e.b. Du bois centre in accra, ghana as well as organizational development and capacity building
$2.2M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for the national theater project
$2.2M
Invisible Histories Project · Birmingham, AL · 2024
To support general operations
$2.1M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for the national dance project
$2.0M
University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
To support the uc sentencing project, a collaboration between ucsd, ucla, and members of the california coalition of women prisoners
$2.0M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support the maniobra music cohort
$2.0M
Social Impact Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To continue support for organizational capacity, a preservation toolkit, and a regranting program of a sponsored project
$2.0M
National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a regranting program and organizational capacity
$2.0M
The Zeitz Mocaa Foundation · 2024
To support general operations
$2.0M
City University of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the city university of new york
$2.0M
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
To support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond
$2.0M
Baryshnikov Arts Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support strategic planning and execution of the bloodlines interwoven festival
$2.0M
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
To support a partnership that connects academic instruction through masters-level coursework with on-the-job work
$2.0M
The Historymakers · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
$2.0M
University of Missouri at Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$2.0M
University of Missouri at Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support historical and preservation projects as well as public programming across the kansas city region
$1.9M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To support the creation of a humanities-based environmental justice studies curriculum and associated projects
$1.8M
City College of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$1.8M
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To support the expansion of an archival information platform
$1.8M
Michigan Department of Natural Resources · Lansing, MI · 2024
To support michigan history center's gchi mshiiken deh minising/heart of great turtle island project
$1.8M
Alaska Native Heritage Center · Anchorage, AK · 2024
To support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks
$1.8M
US Biennial · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support a selection of monumental works at prospect.6
$1.8M
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support organizational capacity, training, and a regranting program for cultural heritage projects in sub-saharan africa
$1.7M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the movements against mass incarceration lab
$1.7M
Museum of West African Art Ltdgte · 2024
To support capacity, partnerships, and construction of artist studios and a residency guest house
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities phds
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To support an open competition addressing sustainable digital infrastructures and promoting justice and equity in digital scholarly practice
$1.6M
The Theater Offensive · Boston, MA · 2024
To support capital costs and programming at the boylston black box
$1.6M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities
$1.6M
Sylvester Manor Educational Farm · Shelter Island, NY · 2024
To support the historic manor house renovation and expanded history & heritage department programming and staffing
$1.6M
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To continue support for indigenous foodways education
$1.5M
Miami Dade College · Miami, FL · 2024
To support a final round of the humanities edge program, a partnership between miami dade college and florida international university
$1.5M
Flamboyan Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the continuation of the letras boricuas fellowship for writers from puerto rico and the diaspora
$1.5M
Cuyahoga Community College · Cleveland, OH · 2024
To support a final round of the cleveland humanities collaborative, that seeks to increase participation in humanities education & degree attainment across the humanities disciplines
$1.5M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support an initiative to stabilize and strengthen contemporary artists and artist-centered organizations across puerto rico
$1.5M
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2024
To support a final round of the humanities edge program, a partnership between miami dade college and florida international university
$1.5M
Central Indiana Community Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
To support henderson developments preservation of the historic colored knights of pythias building and related planning, feasibility, and community engagement
$1.5M
City of Bisbee · Bisbee, AZ · 2024
To support the naco heritage alliance with the rehabilitation and enhancement of historic buildings, new public programming, and artist and scholar residencies at camp naco
$1.5M
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue to support and strengthen the rising presidents fellowship, which develops cohorts of community college leaders with the skills needed to transform their institutions and impact the field
$1.5M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To establish endowments at the national museum of african american history and culture in support of the museum's directorship and curatorial research centers
$1.5M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships
$1.5M
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support transformative leadership
$1.5M
Forge Project Association · Ancram, NY · 2024
To support organizational capacity and a lending collection of indigenous works
$1.5M
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue support for the social impact initiative
$1.5M
The City of Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2024
To support the implementation of the pack square plaza vision plan and commemorative projects
$1.5M
University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2024
To support a humanities-centered internship program
$1.5M
Fund for Public Housing · New York, NY · 2024
To support a nycha arts liaison, artists-in-residence salaries and benefits, stipends for participating nycha residents, and materials and fabrication fees for the space activations
$1.5M
San Francisco Arts Commission · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the pulse check: accountability and activation of future sf monuments initiative
$1.5M
Swiss Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for a coalition effort of mid-sized arts organizations in new york city
$1.5M
The Community College of Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support humanities for today
$1.5M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To continue support for a digital futures collaborative network
$1.5M
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2024
To support a final round of the cleveland humanities collaborative, that seeks to increase participation in humanities education & degree attainment across the humanities disciplines
$1.4M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships
$1.4M
Forecast Public Artworks · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
To support training, technical assistance, production, and documentation of new monuments in rural midwest communities
$1.3M
University of Massachusetts at Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2024
To support the slavery north initiative
$1.3M
Metropolitan State University · St Paul, MN · 2024
To support a state-led, cross-institutional project to offer statewide college in prison opportunities in minnesota
$1.3M
University of South Carolina Upstate · Spartanburg, SC · 2024
To support internships for humanities majors
$1.3M
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To support collective projects focused on scholarly and artistic research
$1.3M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the expansion of the global emerging scholars fellowship program
$1.3M
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024
To support internships for humanities majors
$1.3M
State University of New York at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024
To support a community-engaged study of healthcare in the united states that centers historically marginalized voices
$1.3M
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2024
To continue to support curricular development and public humanities work in premodern humanities fields
$1.3M
Whose Knowledge · San Diego, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$1.3M
The Art and Advocacy Society · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the center for art and advocacy
$1.3M
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2024
To support the graterford archive
$1.3M
The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the obama presidential center museums plans for art programming
$1.3M
Mitchelville Preservation Project · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2024
To support the development of a plaza, classroom/lab, exhibits, and infrastructure at historic mitchelville freedom park
$1.3M
Wiki Education Foundation · Chico, CA · 2024
To support the wikipedia student program's knowledge equity initiative
$1.2M
Friends of Joe W Brown Memorial Park & Louisiana Nature Center · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To continue support for a large-scale sculpture in new orleans east
$1.2M
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To continue support for the puerto rico arts initiative
$1.2M
Forest Forward · Dallas, TX · 2024
To support renovation of the forest theaters historical lobby and the hiring of a theater executive director
$1.2M
Detroit Sound Conservancy · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support educational programming, improvements in archival infrastructure, and the renovation of the blue bird inn

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.