Funding search · EIN 131879954 · New York, NY

The Andrew W Mellon Foundation

Name: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

2,231
grants reported: $1.59B
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $500,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

capacity development community research humanities studies building planning

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Monuments, memorials, and commemoration of slavery and Black history
Humanities curricula, internships, and fellowships at broad-access universities
Archives, digitization, and preservation of underrepresented collections
Performing arts organizations and regranting to artists of color
Higher education in prison and abolition-focused research
Indigenous, Latinx, and Puerto Rican cultural heritage and language work

Typical grant

Median grant is $500,000, with the middle half falling between $250,000 and $750,000. Multi-million awards go to national infrastructure and regranting intermediaries (American Council of Learned Societies, Council on Library and Information Resources, New England Foundation for the Arts) and to large commemoration projects like the Richmond Shockoe Bottom train shed at $7 million. Renewal is common and explicit: descriptions repeatedly say "to continue support for" and "a final round of," so first grants are best understood as the opening of a multi-year relationship.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“TO CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR”
“INTERNSHIP PROGRAMMING FOR HUMANITIES STUDENTS”
“ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY”
“A REGRANTING PROGRAM”
“HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED”
“COMMEMORATIVE”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie adjacent work to monuments, memory, and commemoration; that theme absorbs the largest single checks.
Ask $500,000 to $1.5 million for a campus humanities project; internship and curriculum grants cluster there.
Name the collection or community by name and show public access, not just scholarly output.
Include organizational capacity and staff lines; they fund infrastructure and salaries, not only programming.

Worth knowing: New York holds 567 of 2,231 grants and a handful of intermediaries (ACLS, CLIR, NEFA) take repeated seven-figure awards, so much money moves through trusted regranters rather than direct one-off gifts. Recent giving leans heavily toward racial-justice commemoration, prison education, and Indigenous heritage, and toward regional public universities and community colleges rather than only elite research institutions.

167 grants matching “archived” · $99.7M

$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
$2.3M
Kinfolk Tech Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To continue support for the kinfolk ar monuments app and digital archive
$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
$1.8M
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To support the expansion of an archival information platform
$1.3M
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2024
To support the graterford archive
$1.2M
Detroit Sound Conservancy · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support educational programming, improvements in archival infrastructure, and the renovation of the blue bird inn
$1.1M
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the further development of the black teacher archive portal
$1.0M
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries and Museums · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
To support repatriation of native american cultural objects
$850,000
University of Wyoming · Laramie, WY · 2024
To support a living public archive of wyoming stories
$850,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$850,000
Brandywine Workshop and Archives · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support general operations
$783,000
Fundacin Luis Muoz Marn · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support the puerto rico architectural heritage archive
$752,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
To support archival maintenance, research, operations and website development for a sponsored project
$750,000
Rhizome Communications · New York, NY · 2024
To support an overhaul of a publicly accessible archive of digital art
$750,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
To support the development of latinx archives
$750,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$750,000
Dominican University · River Forest, IL · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$710,000
Heart of Los Angeles Youth · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of indigenous immigrant communities in the westlake area of los angeles, california
$710,000
East Carolina University · Greenville, NC · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$650,000
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2024
To support the implementation of an online archive for a sponsored project
$600,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2024
To support planning for the community archives collaborative
$600,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$600,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2024
To support okwui okpokwasili and peter born of sweat variant with continued archival work and planning for a multi-year operations and production structure
$600,000
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support capacity towards archiving and digitizing the museums collection and history
$600,000
Anyone Can Fly Foundation · Englewood, NJ · 2024
To support strategic planning, capacity building, archival management, and the development of educational and public programs
$590,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$550,000
The Rebuild Foundation Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the st. Laurence arts & industry construction, archive and collections management, and programming at the stony island arts bank
$505,000
Queens College · Flushing, NY · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$501,000
Blank Forms · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support emerging and historically significant artists' archival and estate projects by hiring legal, editorial, and archival consultancy and to bolster long-term organizational capacity
$500,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To support the puerto rico archival collaboration
$500,000
Eastern Shoshone Tribe · Fort Washakie, WY · 2024
To support staffing, land acquisition, and planning and design for a new cultural center and archives
$500,000
Alonzo King Lines Ballet · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support archiving and legacy planning
$500,000
Bronzeville Trail Task Force · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support landscape and archival research, and interpretation of the bronzeville trail for public engagement
$500,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To support archives development, preservation, training, and community engagement centered on the black experience in the global diaspora
$500,000
Lincoln University · Lincoln, PA · 2024
To support faculty hiring, student engagement, and archival preservation efforts in select fields
$500,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2024
To support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the hooks brothers photography studio archives
$500,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for research, dissemination, and archiving of work on hemispheric blackness and hemispheric migration through the hemispheric institute
$500,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the establishment of a digital archive at mills college
$500,000
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
To support archival engagement
$500,000
Wilfandel Club · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support stewardship planning and architectural consultants, historic archives and interpretative learning, capacity building for improvement sites, and accessibility
$500,000
University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To support the creation of two archives
$450,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To continue support for the archival collection at the david c. Driskell center for the visual arts and culture of african americans and the african diaspora
$405,000
McGill University · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$380,000
The Outwords Archive · Glendale, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$375,000
Voices Underground · Kennett Square, PA · 2024
To support archive creation and research personnel, expanded public programming, and cultural landscape planning and design
$350,000
Toshiko Takaezu Foundation · Jersey City, NJ · 2024
To support salaries, legal consultancy, and increased access to archives
$345,000
Simon Fraser University · 2024
To support the preservation and production of materials through the indigenous kinship archive
$325,000
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support a new artist residency studio, education and welcome center, exhibits, and a permanent archive for paul ruckers donated collection
$303,334
The June L Mazer Lesbian Archives · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$300,000
Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support training and services for the preservation of community audiovisual collections in the mid-atlantic region
$300,000
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support archiving workshops and research of a sponsored project
$289,000
Artists in Residence · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support digital archival network of a sponsored project
$280,000
The University of British Columbia · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$250,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support a national convening on ethics and practices related to carceral archives
$250,000
La Pocha Nostra Inter-Cultural Performance & Community Arts Projects · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support archive inventory and care
$250,000
Faulkner Morgan Archive · Lexington, KY · 2024
To support general operations
$250,000
South Asian American Digital Archive · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support new business model development through change-capital funding
$250,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2024
To support the growth of the archive, its capacity for consultative support to other community archives, and its long-term sustainability
$244,800
Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa · Kalaupapa, HI · 2024
To support the creation of a digital archive honoring the lives and histories of the people of kalaupapa
$210,000
Fiji Theater Company · New York, NY · 2024
To support the planning for a legacy archive and succession
$200,000
Yestermorrow · Waitsfield, VT · 2024
To support organizational capacity and development, cultural and educational programming on traditional building methods and cultural practices, and a public archive of spatialized stories from din community members
$200,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To continue to support general operations for the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive
$175,000
Jacob'S Pillow Dance Festival · Becket, MA · 2024
To continue support for a dance archiving initiative for a sponsored project
$150,000
Women Photographers International Archive · Miami, FL · 2024
To support organizational capacity
$150,000
Makerere University · 2024
To support scholarly research and training in epistemological and practical approaches to the study of archives
$150,000
River Pierce Foundation · San Ygnacio, TX · 2024
To support legacy and archive planning for artist michael tracy
$150,000
Yale Typ Archival Study Cohort of 1966 · Stone Mountain, GA · 2024
To support the production of an in-depth study of the yale transition year program of 1966-1967
$150,000
Gaylesbianbisexualtransgender Historicalsociety · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support relocation planning for the physical archive, upgrades to its digital collection infrastructure, and planning for a rebranding project
$144,000
University of Oxford · 2024
To support a research project on archiving algorithms and the social data related to them
$125,000
Kundiman · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support planning, expansion, and use of the organization's current and future archives
$120,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
To support the transition of the social networks and archival context project to a membership-based program
$115,000
Achieva · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To support archival expansion initiative of a sponsored project
$100,000
Webber Family Preservation Project · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
To support research and archive development, an interactive mapping project, and infrastructure improvements at the webber ranch cemetery
$100,000
History Project · Boston, MA · 2024
To support capacity building and sustainability planning for a community-based archive, founded in 1980, focused on lgbtq communities in new england
$100,000
Witness · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the development and distribution of archiving guidance
$95,000
Association To Preserve the Eatonville Community · Eatonville, FL · 2024
To preserve and rehouse the eatonville community archive collections
$75,000
Callaloo Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the preservation of the callaloo archives
$60,000
Entre Film Center · Harlingen, TX · 2024
To support artistic programs and a regional archive
$60,000
Toni Morrison Society · Avondale Estates, GA · 2024
To support the organization of archival materials and planning for a digital archive
$50,000
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support archival development and storytelling of a sponsored project
$30,000
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support planning for the future of small press traffic's archives
$13,500
The National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support planning for the future of the organization's archives
$5.5M
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the american archive of public brd.casting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use
$3.5M
Thomas Jefferson Foundation · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
To support the expansion of the getting word project and the development of the digital archive of slavery to freedom at monticello
$1.4M
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
To support the establishment of the just above midtown archives at the museum of modern art
$1.3M
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2023
To support the graterford archive
$1.2M
College of Wooster · Wooster, OH · 2023
To support the development of a web archives network model, focused initially on black collecting organizations
$1.0M
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
To support the advancement of indigenous data sovereignty through community-based participatory archival partnerships with tribal communities in arizona
$1.0M
Heart of Los Angeles Youth · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of indigenous immigrant communities in the westlake area of los angeles, california
$945,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
To support okwui okpokwasili and peter born of sweat variant with continued archival work and planning for a multi-year operations and production structure
$900,000
University of Guam · Mangilao, GU · 2023
To support a new center to house chamoru studies research and archives, serve as a connection between the community and the academy, and provide pathways for local community college and bachelor's students to pursue hig… read allTo support a new center to house chamoru studies research and archives, serve as a connection between the community and the academy, and provide pathways for local community college and bachelor's students to pursue higher degrees in chamoru studies less
$850,000
Brandywine Workshop and Archives · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support general operations
$817,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support an integrative, interdisciplinary, and reparative approach to analyzing the role that data, computation, and archives play in black life
$750,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support a final phase of community webs, a cohort-based professional training program in web archiving for public libraries
$750,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
To support the development of latinx archives
$675,000
National Chavez Center · Keene, CA · 2023
To support the implementation of a comprehensive plan for collecting, preserving, archiving, and making accessible primary source materials documenting the life and work of cesar chavez
$650,000
Robert W Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support an enhancement of institutional digital infrastructure that would expand the library's preservation of, and access to, african american studies archival content and scholarly resources
$600,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
To support the preservation, conservation, research and cataloging of the james van der zee archive
$525,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in los angeles westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its d… read allTo support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in los angeles westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its diverse immigrant communities less
$500,000
The Young Men'S and Young Women'S Hebrew Association · New York, NY · 2023
To support efforts to increase access to and use of 92ny's unterberg poetry center's archive of literary recordings and planning for their long-term preservation
$500,000
Alonzo King Lines Ballet · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support archiving and legacy planning
$500,000
Amistad Research Center · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To continue support for artist archival research residencies, in collaboration with the rivers institute for contemporary art & thought
$500,000
Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center · San Diego, CA · 2023
To support the chicano park archives
$500,000
Kronos Performing Arts Association · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To continue support of the kronos quartet legacy archive project
$500,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2023
To support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the hooks brothers photography studio archives
$500,000
Movers & Shakers Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support the development of the kinfolk ar monuments app and archive, and related public programming
$500,000
Prince Hall Legacy of Alabama · Birmingham, AL · 2023
To support the organization of archival materials and creation of oral histories about the colored masonic temple in birmingham, alabama
$500,000
Purchase College State University of New York · Purchase, NY · 2023
To support archives and collection with emphasis on african art, convenings, as well as continuing knowledge infrastructure
$500,000
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To support an ever-growing, interactive digital archive and remapping of ohti akwi oyte placenames in minnesota, north and south dakota, and beyond
$350,000
Shift Design · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support sustainability planning and further capacity building for archiving social media content
$345,000
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2023
To support raw material companys curatorial practice, artistic education, knowledge production, archiving of theory and criticism, and growth of artistic and intellectual creativity in africa
$310,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2023
To support planning for the future of the community archives collaborative
$300,000
Makerere University · 2023
To support scholarly research and training in epistemological and practical approaches to the study of archives
$300,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2023
To support the growth of the archive, its capacity for consultative support to other community archives, and its long-term sustainability
$300,000
Fundacin Luis Muoz Marn · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support the puerto rico architectural heritage archive
$280,000
South Asian American Digital Archive · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support new business model development through change-capital funding
$250,000
Faulkner Morgan Archive · Lexington, KY · 2023
To support general operations
$250,000
Afro Charities · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support construction and operating costs for the afro archives
$250,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives at the bancroft library related to 20th-century women poets and the presses that published them
$250,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To support the development of a sustainable model for processing large, complex, born-digital literary archives
$250,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support an exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with creating a shared virtual reading room for literary archives
$200,000
Gerberhart Library and Archives · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support general operations
$200,000
Cave Canem Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archives
$200,000
Fiji Theater Company · New York, NY · 2023
To support the planning for a legacy archive and succession
$200,000
Council of State Archivists · Boston, MA · 2023
To support a planning effort to advance the stewardship and use of data related to state and territorial archives
$150,000
South Asian American Digital Archive · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development of a comprehensive business and sustai… read allTo support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development of a comprehensive business and sustainability plan less
$150,000
The National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archives
$150,000
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support planning for the future of small press traffic's archives
$150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
To support the loudreaders trade schools programs in the caribbean including fellowships, workshops, public lectures, and a digital archive
$150,000
Shift Design · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support an architecting sustainable futures follow-up convening or asf@5 for community-based archives in 2023
$150,000
Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support planning for an archive of interviews that document the history of the association of community organizations for reform now
$150,000
Bowie State University · Bowie, MD · 2023
To support community fellow participants; stipends for faculty; the creation of a digital archive, art exhibit, and podcast; and subgrants to three community organizations for historic preservation projects
$150,000
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University · Tallahassee, FL · 2023
To support a planning effort to increase public access to collections held by the meek-eaton black archives, research center, and museum
$150,000
Lambda Literary Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archive through assessment of lambda's holdings and the potential ways it may support the existing network of queer literary archives
$98,000
Society of American Archivists Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support a pilot for archival training that centers indigenous needs and perspectives
$50,000
La Historia Historical Society · El Monte, CA · 2023
To support the hiring of the organization's first full-time community archives manager
$5.5M
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the american archive of public broadcasting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use
$3.0M
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To support organizational archives
$1.4M
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
To support the preservation, conservation, research and cataloging of the james van der zee archive
$1.4M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To support an integrative, interdisciplinary, and reparative approach to analyzing the role that data, computation, and archives play in black life
$1.3M
College of Wooster · Wooster, OH · 2022
To support the development of a web archives network model, focused initially on black collecting organizations
$1.0M
James Madison University · Harrisonburg, VA · 2022
To support access and discoverability for the furious flower poetry center's audiovisual, sound, and digital image archives
$950,000
Danceusa · Washington, DC · 2022
To provide a final round of support for field services and archiving and preservation
$850,000
Digital Public Library of America · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the development of new models for advancing racial justice in the archival field
$750,000
Cave Canem Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support its current leadership transition, strengthen board governance, archival support, and ensure its annual retreat is free for fellows
$700,000
Fundacion Luis Munoz Marin · San Juan, PR · 2022
To support the puerto rico architectural heritage archive
$675,000
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support a new artist residency studio, education and welcome center, exhibits, and a permanent archive for paul rucker's donated collection
$500,000
State University of New York at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support the development of a community-driven archive and resource collection for indigenous research, teaching, and learning
$500,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2022
To support capacity, collections and archive work, and strategic planning
$375,000
Voices Underground · Kennett Square, PA · 2022
To support archive creation and research personnel, expanded public programming, and cultural landscape planning and design
$350,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To support the creation of an archive that documents spatial racism in oakland, as well as salaries and stipends for university and community personnel
$300,000
Invisible Histories Project of Alabama · Birmingham, AL · 2022
To continue support for the development of a network of archives that document the lived experiences of lgbtq people in the rural south
$300,000
Fiji Theater Company · New York, NY · 2022
To support the planning for a legacy archive and succession
$300,000
Yestermorrow · Waitsfield, VT · 2022
To support organizational capacity and development, cultural and educational programming on traditional building methods and cultural practices, and a public archive of spatialized stories from dine community members
$250,000
Assoc of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
To support a fund for repatriation and collections care
$250,000
The History Project · Boston, MA · 2022
To support capacity building and sustainability planning for a community-based archive, founded in 1980, focused on lgbtq communities in new england
$250,000
University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
To support the curation and stewardship of audiovisual poetry archives at the archive for new poetry and the development of a toolkit to help contemporary poets and writers preserve their born-digital materials
$250,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
To support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to 20th-century poet-activists of color and a digital publishing and poet-in-residence project that draws on these collections
$200,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To support general operations at the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive
$200,000
Libraries Without Borders · New York, NY · 2022
To support planning for a community archive project in loiza, puerto rico
$150,000
Manilatown Heritage Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support sustainability planning for the community-based archive
$150,000
King Baudouin Foundation US · New York, NY · 2022
To support a planning process for creating an online archive for contemporary and (c&)
$150,000
New York Live Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support a website and digital archives planning project for okwui okpokwasili and peter born
$125,000
Sixty Inches From Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support the blackivists in community-based archives work centered on black lives in chicago
$123,000
Association of Moving Image Archivists · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the development of a strategic plan for the future work and sustainability of the community archiving workshop organization
$86,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2022
To support a convening of the community archives collaborative
$40,000
Maine State Museum · Augusta, ME · 2022
To support improvements (such as data visualizations) in a digital archive documenting the history of indigenous people in the northeastern united states

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tides Center5 grants · $92.0M
American Council of Learned Societies15 grants · $44.4M
Wgbh Educational Foundation3 grants · $16.0M
National Park Foundation4 grants · $15.9M
The Studio Museum in Harlem3 grants · $13.5M
Fractured Atlas12 grants · $12.6M
Council On Library and Information Resources8 grants · $12.5M
Freedom Reads3 grants · $12.3M
City of Richmond2 grants · $11.0M
Smithsonian Institution11 grants · $10.8M

Giving over time

$505.7M

2022

$524.7M

2023

$555.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,231 grants.

$90.0M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support creatives rebuild new york
$10.0M
The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2022
To support construction of the museum's new building
$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
$8.5M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2023
To support the administration and annual institutional renewals for the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship program
$7.5M
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
To support the second phase of the chrysalis project including the development of an entity and technology product to radically re-imagine and upgrade support structures for individual artists in the united states
$7.5M
The Regents of the University of California · Oakland, CA · 2022
To support expansion of the university of california's presidential postdoctoral fellowship program by sharpening its focus on the humanities at six hsi uc campuses designated as hispanic-serving institutions
$7.3M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2022
To support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship: amherst, barnard, bowdoin, brooklyn, bryn mawr, carleton, connecticut, dartmouth, grinnell, haverford, hu… read allTo support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship: amherst, barnard, bowdoin, brooklyn, bryn mawr, carleton, connecticut, dartmouth, grinnell, haverford, hunter, macalester, oberlin, pomona, queens, smith, swarthmore, wellesley, whittier, and williams colleges; brown, columbia, cornell, duke, emory, harvard, howard, northwestern, princeton, rice, stanford, wesleyan, and yale universities; the universities of california at berkeley, at los angeles, and at riverside; the universities of cape town, chicago, new mexico, pennsylvania, puerto rico at rio piedras, southern california, texas at austin, the western cape, and the witwatersrand; the california institute of technology; california state university foundation; city college of new york; united negro college fund, inc.; and washington university in st. Louis less
$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
$6.7M
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To continue and expand support for humanities postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence
$6.7M
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To continue and expand support for humanities postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence
$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
$5.5M
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the american archive of public brd.casting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use
$5.5M
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
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
$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
American Council On Education · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the development of a social and economic mobility index to be incorporated into the carnegie classifications
$5.0M
Freedom Reads · Hamden, CT · 2023
To provide major renewed support to freedom reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity
$5.0M
Jazz Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2023
To support a lifetime achievement award program for jazz artists aged 62 years and older
$5.0M
Barnard College · New York, NY · 2022
To support the extension and elevation of caribbean-focused digital humanities scholarship, training, and infrastructure across caribbean and us universities for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates
$4.9M
Simon Fraser University · 2022
To support an expansive interdisciplinary approach to critical data studies to address issues such as misinformation, disinformation, and data literacy
$4.7M
University of Kansas · Lawrence, KS · 2022
To support the in zhuje waxobe project
$4.4M
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To continue support for the mellon mays graduate initiatives program
$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
Monument Lab · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the expansion of the re:generation program, field building, narrative change work, and general operations
$4.0M
City of Richmond · Richmond, VA · 2022
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
$4.0M
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the african american cultural heritage action fund's grantmaking, programs, marketing, expanded technical assistance for prospective grantees, and three signature preservation projects
$4.0M
Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to south central
$3.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities phds
$3.7M
Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2022
To support an expansion of college-in-prison programs for men and women, planning for a master's degree program, and an endowed chair dedicated to the bard prison initiative
$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
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Washington, DC · 2023
To support staff capacity, programs for presidential sites in virginia, a national regranting program, and a convening for the new descendant stewardship & leadership initiative
$3.5M
Thomas Jefferson Foundation · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
To support the expansion of the getting word project and the development of the digital archive of slavery to freedom at monticello
$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
$3.4M
The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the chicago monuments project and citywide community-initiated commemorative initiatives and installations
$3.3M
The Theater Offensive · Boston, MA · 2022
To support capital costs and programming at the boylston black box
$3.2M
Fidelity Charitable · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Matching gift
$3.2M
City College of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support internship programming for humanities students
$3.0M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development and initial work of the new office of human dignity
$3.0M
University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To continue support for visualizing abolition
$3.0M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support an initiative to stabilize and strengthen contemporary artists and artist-centered organizations across puerto rico
$3.0M
Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support a memorial to the victims of the 1871 chinese massacre in los angeles
$3.0M
Mass Design Group Ltd · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the expansion of the public memory and memorials lab
$3.0M
Pride Live · Long Island City, NY · 2023
To support the creation of the stonewall national monument visitor center and core staffing
$3.0M
University of Missouri at Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2023
To support internship programming for humanities students
$3.0M
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To support organizational archives
$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
$2.8M
American Library Association · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support efforts to shore up the association's digital infrastructure and to advance intellectual freedom and access to information, diversity fellowship programming, and a covid-19 relief regranting program
$2.8M
American Library Association · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support efforts to shore up the association's digital infrastructure and to advance intellectual freedom and access to information, diversity fellowship programming, and a covid-19 relief regranting program
$2.8M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2022
To support a dissertation writing fellowship to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities
$2.7M
Fidelity Charitable · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Matching gift
$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
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 national grantmaking competition for digitization of materials that deepen public understanding of people and communities that have been historically underrepresented
$2.5M
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support a regranting program for the digitization of materials
$2.5M
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the latinx theater initiative
$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
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for a research and training program for advanced graduate students
$2.5M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support the maniobra music cohort
$2.5M
City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
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 · 2023
To support a national grantmaking competition for digitization of materials that deepen public understanding of people and communities that have been historically underrepresented
$2.5M
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the latinx theater initiative
$2.5M
Miami Valley Public Media · Yellow Springs, OH · 2023
To support the preservation of historical audio collections held by campus radio stations at historically black colleges and universities
$2.5M
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2023
To support the indigenization of curricular, support, and community engagement efforts
$2.5M
Old Dominion University · Norfolk, VA · 2023
To support internship programming for humanities students
$2.5M
Alliance for California Traditional Arts · Fresno, CA · 2022
To support organizational capacity and a national fellowship for traditional artists
$2.5M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the fiona community response fund
$2.5M
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022
To support relocation of the haffenreffer museum of anthropology from bristol to providence, rhode island
$2.5M
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022
To support the indigenization of curricular, support, and community engagement efforts
$2.5M
University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
To support a final renewal for the cross-border community stations program of innovative community engagement in san diego and tijuana
$2.5M
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
To establish a latinx studies research and training program for advanced graduate students and a network of 16 public research intensive hispanic serving institutions
$2.4M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support building a program of study in native american and indigenous studies
$2.4M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To support a digital futures collaborative network
$2.3M
Texas a&M University · College Station, TX · 2024
To support an initiative that centers interdisciplinary humanistic scholarship
$2.3M
Trust for the National Mall · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the temporary commemoration pilot program
$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
$2.3M
Emmett Till Interpretive Center · Sumner, MS · 2023
To support museum interpretation and planning, community engagement, memorial design, and the centers organizational capacity
$2.3M
Freedom Reads · New Haven, CT · 2022
To support freedom reads
$2.2M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for the national theater project
$2.2M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2023
To continue support for the national theater project
$2.2M
Invisible Histories Project · Birmingham, AL · 2024
To support general operations
$2.2M
Sylvester Manor Educational Farm · Shelter Island, NY · 2023
To support the historic manor house renovation and expanded history & heritage department programming and staffing
$2.1M
Motown Historical Museum · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support construction and renovation costs for the museum community annex
$2.1M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for the national dance project
$2.1M
New England Foundation for the Arts · Boston, MA · 2022
To continue support for the national dance project
$2.1M
California State University at Fresno · Fresno, CA · 2023
To support internship programming for humanities students
$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
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
Baryshnikov Arts Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support strategic planning and execution of the bloodlines interwoven festival
$2.0M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support the maniobra music cohort
$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
National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a regranting program and organizational capacity
$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

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