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
- $500,000
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator · Miami, FL · 2024
To support general operations
- $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
Era Footwork Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Frances Perkins Center · Newcastle, ME · 2024
To support historic preservation and cultural landscape assessments, and curatorial and development staff
- $500,000
Franklin & Marshall College · Lancaster, PA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Friends of Little Saigon · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support staffing capacity, language courses, annual events and art exhibits, artist stipends, and a public realm placekeeping project
- $500,000
Giiwedinong Museum and Cultural Center of the North · Park Rapids, MN · 2024
To support enhanced organizational capacity, public programs, planning, and construction costs
- $500,000
Grambling State University · Grambling, LA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2024
To continue support for race matters, a reported series broadcast on pbs newshour
- $500,000
Gustavus Adolphus College · St Peter, MN · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Historic Bethel Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund · Birmingham, AL · 2024
To support interpretation planning, construction costs, public programming, and organizational capacity
- $500,000
Hobart and William Smith Colleges · Geneva, NY · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2024
To support the archivo de respuestas emergencias de puerto rico (arepr)
- $500,000
Indiespace · Astoria, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Jacksonville Public Library · Jacksonville, FL · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab at jacksonville public library
- $500,000
James Weldon Johnson Literary Foundation · Great Barrington, MA · 2024
To support the research, restoration, and preservation planning of a historic site
- $500,000
John Michael Kohler Arts Center · Sheboygan, WI · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Juniata College · Huntingdon, PA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Kuaina Ulu Auamo · Kneohe, HI · 2024
To support place-based environmental heritage initiatives and network convenings, and organizational development
- $500,000
Lawrence University · Appleton, WI · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Libraries Without Borders · New York, NY · 2024
To support the puerto rico library directory and network project
- $500,000
Libraries Without Borders · New York, NY · 2024
To support loza vive
- $500,000
Lincoln University · Lincoln, PA · 2024
To support faculty hiring, student engagement, and archival preservation efforts in select fields
- $500,000
Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight los angeles diverse historic places
- $500,000
Los Angeles Public Library · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab at los angeles public library
- $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
Middle Georgia Regional Library · Macon, GA · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $500,000
Montana State University · Bozeman, MT · 2024
To support research, fellowships, and community education projects in the buffalo nations biocultural region
- $500,000
Montclair State University · Montclair, NJ · 2024
To support the creation of a center for native american and indigenous studies
- $500,000
Morningside University · Sioux City, IA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Mount Tamalpais College · San Quentin, CA · 2024
To continue to support higher education in prison and reentry programs
- $500,000
Museo De Arte Contemporneo De Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support organizational and programmatic capacity
- $500,000
National Gallery of Zimbabwe · 2024
To support infrastructure and leadership
- $500,000
National Museum of Mexican Art · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
New Art Publications · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To continue support for bomb magazines oral history project
- $500,000
New Native Theatre · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
To support capacity building and artistic programs
- $500,000
New York Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2024
To support transformative leadership within the american theater
- $500,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the center for collaborative indigenous research with communities and lands
- $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
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To continue to support prison education and reentry programs
- $500,000
New-York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024
To support the development of an exhibition
- $500,000
Nonprofit Finance Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To support a program that would assist a cohort of community-driven audiovisual preservation organizations with developing adaptable and sustainable business models
- $500,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the establishment of a digital archive at mills college
- $500,000
Pew Research Center · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the people & voices initiative
- $500,000
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To support the vision of the new artistic director
- $500,000
Poets House · New York, NY · 2024
To support the preservation, organization, and curation of special collections holdings and expand access to them
- $500,000
Prophet World Beat Productions · San Diego, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Queens Museum of Art · Queens, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To support the puerto rico archival collaboration
- $500,000
Samuels Library · Front Royal, VA · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $500,000
San Diego State University · San Diego, CA · 2024
To support the valuing incarcerated scholars through academia program
- $500,000
San Francisco Jazz Organization · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To continue support for artist residencies and commissions
- $500,000
Soho Repertory Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support of the growth and evolution of project number one, a job creation program for artists
- $500,000
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville · Edwardsville, IL · 2024
To support the expansion of a general education pathway
- $500,000
Spartanburg County Public Libraries · Spartanburg, SC · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $500,000
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To continue to support general operations for the spelman college museum of fine art
- $500,000
State University of New York at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
State University of New York College at Geneseo · Geneseo, NY · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
Stichting Ateliers 89 Academia De Bellas Artes Aruba · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Sweet Water Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support place-based partnerships, community-driven projects, and research
- $500,000
The Collective the Cltv · Memphis, TN · 2024
To support organizational development, capacity building, and planning and design work for the adaptive reuse of orange mount tower
- $500,000
The College of New Jersey · Ewing, NJ · 2024
To support the development of teaching resources about citizenship, belonging, migration, and race
- $500,000
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for expanded research, a community center, and public programming of a sponsored project
- $500,000
The House Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support of the meredith monk lineage project
- $500,000
The Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
The International Association of Blacks in Dance · Washington, DC · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
The Marc Sanders Foundation · Hillsborough, NJ · 2024
To support fellowships in race and social justice as part of the philosophy in media initiative
- $500,000
The Miami Center for Racial Justice · Palmetto Bay, FL · 2024
To support an expansion of the teach the truth tours and a statewide lecture series of african-american and civil rights history
- $500,000
The National Black Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2024
To support capacity building for a leading black theater during a period of significant institutional change
- $500,000
The New School · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for scholarship and public engagement at the vera list center for art and politics
- $500,000
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
To support archival engagement
- $500,000
Threewalls · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Tri314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To continue support of capacity building and artistic expansion
- $500,000
Trinity College · Hartford, CT · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
True Colors Theatre Company · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support capacity growth and sustainability
- $500,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support a joint graduate program in africana studies and art history/studio art
- $500,000
Ubw · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To support the encoding of writing systems for endangered languages
- $500,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To support educational initiatives and a digital access hub
- $500,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a global comparative study of race and disciplinary racialization
- $500,000
University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To support the creation of two archives
- $500,000
University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To support experiential learning opportunities that connect classroom curricula with hands-on training, including service learning, undergraduate research, and paid internships for all humanities majors
- $500,000
University of Montana · Missoula, MT · 2024
To support integrating indigenous-centered epistemologies and native american humanities knowledge across campus and into montanas required state indian education for all postsecondary course
- $500,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support conservation, photography, and a scholarly catalog
- $500,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
University of Portland · Portland, OR · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey · Cayey, PR · 2024
To support the archivo documental y legado antonio martorell
- $500,000
University of Tulsa · Tulsa, OK · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
- $500,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
To continue to support general operations for the burke museum of natural history and culture
- $500,000
Urban Librarians Unite · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
To support cultural asset mapping, community partnerships, public engagement, and programming
- $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
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support general operations
- $500,000
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company · Washington, DC · 2024
To support transformative leadership and capacity building
- $500,000
Abraham in Motion · New York, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $500,000
Alonzo King Lines Ballet · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support archiving and legacy planning
- $500,000
Ameelio · New Haven, CT · 2023
To provide general operating support
- $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
Apano Communities United Fund · Portland, OR · 2023
To support organizational capacity, visioning and planning, and community engagement to develop a public monument in portlands jade district

