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

$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
$450,000
Asian University for Women Support Foundation · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To support a final round of funding for the development of humanities offerings for a refugee-serving institution
$450,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support community engagement and cultural mapping activities that capture and embed the histories of several los angeles communities in new park spaces along the los angeles river
$450,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2023
To support the marcus garvey park culture, creativity, & care initiative
$450,000
New Orleans African American Museum of Art Culture and History · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support general operations
$450,000
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX · 2023
To support the ultraviole(n)t exposures project, including salaries for staff and research assistants, fellowships, public programming, a digital humanities platform, and the construction of a traveling shade event and … read allTo support the ultraviole(n)t exposures project, including salaries for staff and research assistants, fellowships, public programming, a digital humanities platform, and the construction of a traveling shade event and exhibition space less
$450,000
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey · Cayey, PR · 2023
To support the instituto de investigaciones interdisciplinarias
$450,000
Wise Reagon Arts Llc · New York, NY · 2023
To support the development of a sustainable community engagement infrastructure modeled after the values embedded in toshi reagons latest opera, parable of the sower
$450,000
Actors Gang · Culver City, CA · 2022
To support the alumni advocacy project
$450,000
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2022
To support general operations
$450,000
Jackson State University · Jackson, MS · 2022
To support a two-part project for the margaret walker center's long-term sustainability, capacity for growth, and impact
$450,000
Justice Arts Coalition · Takoma Park, MD · 2022
To provide general operating support
$450,000
Sphinx Organization · Detroit, MI · 2022
To provide a final round of support for sphinxconnect
$450,000
The Map Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for a regranting program for the creation and development of contemporary performance work
$449,000
Troy University · Troy, AL · 2024
To support a project that deepens and broadens student and public understanding of alabama's cultural and historical identity
$448,000
Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To continue support for lauren halseys south central la hieroglyph architecture (sister dreamer)
$440,000
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2023
To support post-decision convenings and research on merit indicators
$436,000
Austrian National Library · 2022
To support the final phase of a long-term digitization and online publication project related to papyri from the early arab period
$435,797
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support the documentation of legislative challenges to academic freedom and the promotion of awareness about their effects
$435,000
City Parks Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support the nyc department of parks and recreations creation of a uniform policy for historic burial grounds
$430,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
To support samora pinderhughes and the healing project
$430,000
International Arts Relations · New York, NY · 2024
To support capacity building and sustainability
$429,000
School for Advanced Research · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
To support a final round of funding for a program of predoctoral and early-career scholarly fellowships in latinx studies
$426,000
Voice of the Experienced Vote · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support formerly incarcerated, radically empowered with development of research and resources that address the well being of formerly incarcerated people
$425,000
Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce · Beaufort, SC · 2024
To support a regranting program, educational workshops on preservation and conservation, annual gatherings, and preservation planning
$425,000
New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2024
To support the lenape center's organizational capacity and salaries for leadership team
$425,000
Northwest Film Forum · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support program development of a sponsored project
$425,000
Radical Reversal · Bloomfield, NJ · 2024
To support organizational and programmatic development
$425,000
African Futures Institute Lbg · 2023
To support capacity building, continued public events programming, new academic programs, and research activities
$425,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2023
To continue support for the penumbra center for racial healing
$425,000
Rennie Harris Puremovement · Sharon Hill, PA · 2022
To support rennie harris's company and curriculum, to broaden public understanding of hip-hop aesthetics and street dance culture
$425,000
The Philadelphia Dance Company · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support change capital through the foundation's comprehensive organizational health initiative
$423,000
Memoria Decolonial · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support organizational and programmatic development
$420,000
Indianapolis Recorder Charities · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
To support the hiring of an oral historian, a video producer, and essential staff for the newspapers oral history project
$413,000
Producer Hub · New York, NY · 2024
To support planning and development of new multidisciplinary performance forms of a sponsored project
$412,000
California State University Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support graduate student fellowships, a colloquium, and speaker series
$412,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To support marking time
$410,800
Maryland Art Place · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support capacity building for the last resort artist retreat, a program of charm city cultural cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees
$405,000
McGill University · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$400,000
Accin Latina · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$400,000
African American Cultural Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To support the pittsburgh international jazz festival
$400,000
American Association of Blacks in Higher Education · Washington, DC · 2024
To support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks
$400,000
Beth Morrison Projects · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the prototype: opera/theatre/now festival
$400,000
Bluffton Gullah Cultural Heritage Center · Bluffton, SC · 2024
To support expanded organizational capacity, cultural and heritage programming, and facility enhancements
$400,000
City University of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support essential services for city university of new york students
$400,000
Collective Focus Resource Hub · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support culinary exchange, food programming, and organizational planning
$400,000
Community Arts Stabilization Trust · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support testing new ideas in creative place making and belonging for artists
$400,000
Contra-Tiempo · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support capacity building and a new, shared leadership-structure
$400,000
Cultural Heritage Finance Alliance · New York, NY · 2024
To support planning and research for interpretation at oaxacan cultural heritage sites, and construction of an interpretive center
$400,000
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support general operations
$400,000
Fort Apache Heritage Foundation · Fort Apache, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
$400,000
Foundation Earth · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the onkyayun oheki project with a focus on capacity building as well as food and cultural heritage programs
$400,000
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks
$400,000
Ithaka Harbors · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for jstor access in prison
$400,000
Joslyn Art Museum · Omaha, NE · 2024
To continue support for native american art initiatives
$400,000
Kamoinge · Metuchen, NJ · 2024
To support the planning phase and preliminary work towards a project to document and digitize oral histories, institutional history, and photographs by collective members
$400,000
Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks
$400,000
Marian Cheek Jackson Center · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
To support general operations
$400,000
Mixed Blood Theatre Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To support leadership transition and a different approach to community service
$400,000
Museum of the Rockies · Bozeman, MT · 2024
To support staffing, exhibition development, and programming
$400,000
Not An Alternative · Vashon, WA · 2024
To support staffing, artist fees and honoraria, and production of an interactive website and multimedia content related to the expansion of the words are monuments initiative
$400,000
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support a new curatorial role
$400,000
Pioneer Winter Collective · Miami, FL · 2024
To support continued artistic expansion and exploration
$400,000
Rhode Island Historical Society · Providence, RI · 2024
To support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the city of providence department of art, culture + tourism
$400,000
The Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support an annual academic fellowship
$400,000
The Innocence Project · New York, NY · 2024
To support the stories of freedom collaboration with storycorps
$400,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a public exhibition, postdoctoral research fellowships, publications, programming, and community engagement
$400,000
Women in Dialogue · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support general operations
$400,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2024
To support a documentary by a sponsored project
$400,000
Womens Housing and Economic Development Corporation · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support completing the construction and theatrical fit-out of the bronx music hall
$400,000
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation · Winstonsalem, NC · 2024
To support the inclusive public art initiative
$400,000
Chicago Sinfonietta · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the activation of community partnerships
$400,000
Douglas Arts and Humanities Association · Douglas, AZ · 2023
To support artistic programs and transborder collaboration
$400,000
Gyopo · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support a collective of diasporic korean cultural producers and arts professionals
$400,000
Masa Center · Battle Creek, MI · 2023
To support organizational capacity, community-based xicano studies curriculum, learning garden, and fellowships
$400,000
The Industry Productions · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support visionary artists in their desire to combine a long-enduring art form and experimental technologies into contemporary narratives on behalf of a brd.ly diverse public
$400,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support chicago-based black dance companies and strengthen their financial and operational capacity, ensuring the long-term survival of their work
$400,000
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
To support sustainability planning for a digital humanities center focused on us latino studies
$400,000
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
To support collections research towards african art scholarship and repatriation work
$400,000
University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2023
To support research focusing on the use of racial property restrictions in iowa's metropolitan counties, their impacts, and their implications for racial equity today
$400,000
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2023
To support the completion of project activities related to the digital restoration and representation of the herculaneum papyri
$400,000
While We Are Still Here · New York, NY · 2023
To support capacity building and the development of humanities and cultural heritage programming that works to amplify and prevent the erasure of harlem's distinct history
$400,000
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation · Winstonsalem, NC · 2023
To support the inclusive public art initiative
$400,000
Ballet Hispanico of New York · New York, NY · 2022
To support the creation of the latinx dance institute
$400,000
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council · New York, NY · 2022
To support a final round of support for the extended life residency program
$400,000
Theatre Communications Group · New York, NY · 2022
To support the tcg books program
$400,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To continue support for research on the museum's african collections
$400,000
University of Texas at El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2022
To support curatorial and programming capacity
$399,300
Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2022
To support studies addressing the most significant voting rights cases on college campuses, and the production of open educational resources available for teachers of voting rights courses
$399,000
Wideman-Davis Dance of New York · Columbia, SC · 2024
To support the expansion of migratuse ataraxia through long-term, community-focused dance residencies in columbia, sc, montgomery, al, and harpersville, al
$395,000
Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation · Brunswick, GA · 2024
To support organizational capacity, preservation, and programming of a sponsored project
$394,000
Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support research, planning, and pilot production for lauren halsey's monument to south central
$391,217
Five Colleges Incorporated · Amherst, MA · 2022
To support the study of less commonly taught languages: $1,000,000 as permanent endowment, to be matched two-to-one within five years; and $775,000 in spendable funds within six years
$388,000
Theater Mu · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
To continue support of playwright saymoukda vongsay's residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
$385,000
Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support capacity building for digital infrastructure development and long-term sustainability
$383,000
Mosaic Theater Company of Dc · Washington, DC · 2023
To continue support of playwright psalmayene 24's residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
$382,481
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2023
To support the documentation of legislative challenges to academic freedom and the promotion of awareness about their effects
$380,000
The Outwords Archive · Glendale, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$379,000
Lookingglass Theatre Company · Chicago, IL · 2023
To continue support of playwright j. Nicole brooks' three-year residency through the national playwright residency program
$376,000
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To support community gatherings and culturally-responsive, trauma-informed care for participants in the road to healing oral history project