Funding search · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · grants

The Andrew W Mellon Foundation: all 2,231 grants

Largest first · $1.59B across 2022–2024 · back to the overview

$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