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
Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the king boston embrace ideas festival in 2022 and 2023
$500,000
Boston Modern Orchestra Project · Malden, MA · 2022
To support five recordings of operas by black composers on black historical topics
$500,000
California State University Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To continue to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students
$500,000
Central New Mexico Community College · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
To continue support for the transfer of humanities students at central new mexico community college and university of new mexico branch campuses to the university of new mexico main campus
$500,000
Chicago Opera Theater · Chicago, IL · 2022
To continue support for the vanguard emerging opera composer residency program
$500,000
Civic Nation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support underresourced institutions, specifically community colleges and hbcus, in participating in the all in campus democracy challenge through a communities of practice model
$500,000
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support a multi-year residency pilot focused on research-based practices by black california artists
$500,000
De Ette Holden Cummer Museum Foundation · Jacksonville, FL · 2022
To support capacity building and strategic planning
$500,000
Denniston Hill Corp · Glen Wild, NY · 2022
To support capacity through its first staff hires at denniston hill with plans to develop a durable, shared leadership model
$500,000
Denyce Graves Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To support organizational capacity, vocal artist development, and public performances focused on highlighting the work of trailblazing musicians of color
$500,000
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support publicly-engaged research, curricular development, and public programming to bring the literary and broader humanities imagination to bear on urgent issues of social justice in the west philadelphia community
$500,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
To support the social practice lab and artistic research initiative fellows
$500,000
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support staffing capacity toward succession planning
$500,000
En Foco · Bronx, NY · 2022
To support capacity, collections and archive work, and strategic planning
$500,000
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2022
To continue support for ongoing community exchange and collaborative conservation with indigenous partners, and to develop and disseminate guidelines for respectfully working with native communities to other museums and… read allTo continue support for ongoing community exchange and collaborative conservation with indigenous partners, and to develop and disseminate guidelines for respectfully working with native communities to other museums and cultural centers less
$500,000
Filantropia Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2022
To support hurricane fiona response in puerto rico
$500,000
Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network · Tacoma, WA · 2022
To provide general operating support
$500,000
Headlands Center for the Arts · Sausalito, CA · 2022
To support general operations
$500,000
Indiana Universitypurdue University Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
To support residencies for diverse scholars and creators engaged in constructing humanistic narratives
$500,000
International African American Museum · Charleston, SC · 2022
To support the organization's inaugural traveling exhibition, "follow the north star,its grounding film, "seeking"
$500,000
Kundiman · Bronx, NY · 2022
To support capacity building to grow its staff including development and communications teams
$500,000
Library Freedom · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support general operations
$500,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support the leadership of president and chief executive officer, henry timms
$500,000
Macalester College · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To support a native and indigenous studies initiative
$500,000
Mid Atlantic Arts · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To provide a final round of support for usartists international
$500,000
Midwest Art Conservation Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support collaborative conservation efforts and training opportunities in partnership with communities
$500,000
Morgan State University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To support the creation of a national collective of black, queer faculty committed to cultivating the intellectual and artistic pursuits of the next generation of black, queer scholar-activists
$500,000
Mount Tamalpais College · San Quentin, CA · 2022
To continue to support prison education and reentry
$500,000
Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support latinx and caribbean art initiatives
$500,000
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego · La Jolla San Diego, CA · 2022
To support a curatorial position with specialization in latinx art as part of advancing latinx art in museums
$500,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
To support internships and training of a diverse group of students in the field of conservation
$500,000
National Performance Network · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To support theatre programs, organizational capacity, and space improvements at the andre cailloux center for performing arts & cultural justice
$500,000
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the cultural heritage stewardship initiative for historically black colleges and universities
$500,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for the implementation of graduate curriculum in time-based media art conservation at the conservation center of the institute of fine arts
$500,000
Next City · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support equitable cities fellowships for bipoc journalists, next city vanguard conferences in virginia and texas, and related place-focused programs and media
$500,000
Non-Profit Connection · Richmond, VA · 2022
To support untold rva's organizational development, public programs, exhibits, and campaigns
$500,000
Northwest Indian College · Bellingham, WA · 2022
To support the development of new curricular and pedagogical models and the creation of a new major and minor in indigenous studies
$500,000
Nxthvn · New Haven, CT · 2022
To support increased staffing capacity, a co-leadership transition, and programmatic needs
$500,000
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland, CA · 2022
To continue support for the knowledge management infrastructure initiative's implementation
$500,000
Ofbyfor All · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
To support new leadership and continue support for the change network
$500,000
Peconic Land Trust · Southhampton, NY · 2022
To support capacity building for niamuck land trust
$500,000
Reed College · Portland, OR · 2022
To support a project to develop environmental humanities curriculum, courses, and scholarship centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination
$500,000
San Antonio Area Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2022
To support organizational capacity at the mexican american history of civil rights institute, an archivist, and the development of an exhibition master plan
$500,000
San Francisco State University · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support intersectional summer workshops, mentorship opportunities, and a durable network for emerging disability studies scholar-activists
$500,000
Sky High Farm · Pine Plains, NY · 2022
To support capacity building while the organization is working to develop a revenue stream to sustain its work
$500,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2022
To continue support for smu dataarts
$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
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To support a project to examine the impact of race and racism on the identities, histories, and lived experiences of black, arab, and muslim people living in the city of syracuse specifically and its implications on us … read allTo support a project to examine the impact of race and racism on the identities, histories, and lived experiences of black, arab, and muslim people living in the city of syracuse specifically and its implications on us racial politics less
$500,000
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To provide general operating support
$500,000
The Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2022
To provide general operating support
$500,000
The Luis a Ferre Foundation · Ponce, PR · 2022
To continue support for conservation capacity at the museo de arte de ponce
$500,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
To support a cohort of early-career creative producers
$500,000
The University of Texas at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2022
To continue support for an undergraduate research program for underrepresented and other students studying the humanities and selected social sciences
$500,000
Threewalls · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support the in-session artist fellowship program
$500,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support the maria fund
$500,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To support general operations at the newcomb art museum
$500,000
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To continue support for students and community partners in the heritage studies and public history graduate program with a particular focus on recruiting diverse students to heritage studies and public history
$500,000
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
To continue support for the center for environmental arts and humanities
$500,000
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
To continue support for growth and outreach in the multidisciplinary pacific islander studies program
$500,000
US Nat'L Comm Internat'L Council Monuments & Sites · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the development of a toolkit to inform decisions about the display, interpretation, removal, or relocation of monuments associated with oppression
$500,000
US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership · San Diego, CA · 2022
To support capacity and programs for ni en more
$500,000
Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation · Monterey Park, CA · 2022
To support general operations
$500,000
Visual Arts Research & Resource Center Relating · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for organizational capacity and general operations
$500,000
Wake Forest University · Winstonsalem, NC · 2022
To support collaboration between the university's programs in african american studies and environment and sustainability in the development of a new humanistic science and technology studies curriculum that centers env… read allTo support collaboration between the university's programs in african american studies and environment and sustainability in the development of a new humanistic science and technology studies curriculum that centers environmental and epistemic justice and examines the role of race in shaping environmental narratives and policy less
$500,000
Wesleyan University · Middletown, CT · 2022
To continue support for the center for prison education
$500,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
To support no existe un mundo poshuracan: puerto rican art in the wake of hurricane maria
$500,000
Whittier College · Whittier, CA · 2022
To support an investigation of the historical evolution of an intersectional "brown" identity in the united states
$500,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
To support sustainability planning for a national software preservation program
$497,000
St Catherine University · St Paul, MN · 2022
To support a project to develop an interdisciplinary, intersectional curriculum that promotes anti-racism
$495,000
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Svcs · Dearborn, MI · 2022
To support the creation of a new commemorative public artwork by sara ouhaddou at elizabeth berger plaza highlighting the work of early arab writers and poets who settled in new york city
$495,000
Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support a project to embed the study of race, racialization, and resistance in the undergraduate curriculum
$492,000
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
To support a project on civic engagement, citizenship, and voting rights
$490,000
City College of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
$490,000
Arts Council of Greater New Haven · New Haven, CT · 2023
To support an expanded new haven artists corps program, including administrative support, stipends for artists and facilitators, and place-focused projects and programs
$487,000
The George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2022
To support public-facing projects focused on disability justice that will provide marginalized populations with the empowering capacities of storytelling
$486,000
The Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support planning for freedom to grow
$485,000
University of Richmond · Richmond, VA · 2022
To support development and outreach activities for extending the distant viewing toolkit, open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture
$480,000
Salem State University · Salem, MA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
$480,000
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
To support the creation of pathways to campus learning for formerly incarcerated students and a women, gender, and sexuality studies degree program at the ohio reformatory for women
$477,000
The Classical Theatre of Harlem · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support of playwright betty shamieh's residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
$476,000
Pace University · New York, NY · 2024
To support an initiative focused on environmental justice issues in island contexts
$475,000
River Pierce Foundation · San Ygnacio, TX · 2024
To support staffing and development, humanities programming, and research and preservation planning for historic sites in san ygnacio
$475,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2023
To support the design of new networked services for expanding legal access to in-copyright digitized books and ebooks that other library systems could adopt
$475,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the development of a new model for museum practice at the national museum of african art
$473,000
Women'S Project and Productions · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support of playwright cori thomas' residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
$462,000
Susquehanna University · Selinsgrove, PA · 2024
To support a call for concepts research project
$460,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support a sponsored project's community-led research and interpretation
$455,000
The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant Histo · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support the preservation of the historic hunterfly rd. Houses and continued community-based and artist residency programs at the weeksville heritage center and surrounding neighborhood
$451,000
Nanticoke Indian Association · Milsboro, DE · 2024
To support a full-time curator position, expanded public programming, and business planning
$450,000
Bearded Ladies Cabaret · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support personnel, board development, and programming
$450,000
Boffo · New York, NY · 2024
To support general operations
$450,000
Chicago Public Art Group · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the preservation of an important labor movement mural
$450,000
Denniston Hill Corp · Glen Wild, NY · 2024
To continue support for capacity and to develop a durable, shared leadership model
$450,000
Flanner House of Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
To support cleos too kitchen and public exhibition space, honoraria for regional and national food heritage leaders, and associated food heritage programming
$450,000
Henry Street Settlement · New York, NY · 2024
To support la residencia
$450,000
Portland Center Stage · Portland, OR · 2024
To support transformative leadership within the american theater
$450,000
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2024
To support staffing capacity toward succession planning
$450,000
The Municipal Art Society of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support the hiring of community experts and consultants, research, public programming, and expanded organizational capacity
$450,000
The Queens Borough Public Library · Jamaica, NY · 2024
To support the queens memory project and queens name explorer
$450,000
The W E B Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy · Great Barrington, MA · 2024
To support completion of the current phase of restoration of the clinton church building, leadership and staffing of the center, and programming support for the interpretive center and w.e.b. Du bois forum