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
- $270,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023
To support the rikers public memory project
- $269,793
International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support iceensemble collaborations and mentorship of creators and artists
- $269,000
The Graduate Center of the City University of Ny · New York, NY · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for christopher loperena
- $268,000
The Art and Advocacy Society · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the right of return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the art and advocacy society
- $267,000
University of Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2024
To support a new directions fellowship
- $267,000
Rattlestick Productions · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support of playwright basil kreimendahl's residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
- $265,000
US Latinx Art Forum · Medford, MA · 2024
To support latinx artist fellowships as part of the us latinx art visibility fund
- $265,000
US Latinx Art Forum · Medford, MA · 2023
To support latinx artist fellowships as part of the us latinx art visibility fund
- $265,000
US Latinx Art Forum · Medford, MA · 2022
To support latinx artist fellowships as part of the us latinx art visibility fund
- $264,000
Vassar College · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for sofia ortiz-hinojosa
- $264,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for elizabeth thornberry
- $262,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for justene hill edwards
- $260,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the development of the radical librarianship institute and an accompanying community press
- $260,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
To support general operations at the arizona state museum
- $258,000
Connecticut College · New London, CT · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for karen gonzalez rice
- $256,000
Producer Hub · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for capacity building of a sponsored project
- $255,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for xochiquetzal marsilli-vargas
- $254,000
Tufts University · Medford, MA · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for kareem khubchandani
- $251,000
Florida Atlantic University · Boca Raton, FL · 2023
To support the development of curriculum and curricular materials centering voting rights history
- $250,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a pooled funding effort to sustain higher education
- $250,000
Califa Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the research institute for public libraries in its curriculum expansion for data skills training and in planning for long-term sustainability
- $250,000
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $250,000
Centro De Periodismo Investigativo · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support cpi's climate and disaster investigative unit and the diaspora expansion project
- $250,000
City of El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2024
To support the el paso museum of art
- $250,000
Code for Science & Society · Portland, OR · 2024
To support invest in open infrastructure in the further development of the catalog of open infrastructure services and to test models and strategies for sustaining open infrastructure
- $250,000
Faulkner Morgan Archive · Lexington, KY · 2024
To support general operations
- $250,000
Geauga County Public Library · Chardon, OH · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $250,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support the digitization of audiovisual recordings
- $250,000
International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for the ispa global fellowship program
- $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
Leeway Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support programs that model inclusive philanthropic practices and honor artists as the cultural lifeblood of communities
- $250,000
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support community engagement, planning, and design related to the development of the sleepy lagoon memorial
- $250,000
Milwaukee Art Museum · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
To support the final phase of knowledge management infrastructure at the museum
- $250,000
New Ulm Public Library · New Ulm, MN · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $250,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support organizational and programmatic development of a sponsored project
- $250,000
New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for a sponsored project's artist legacy project
- $250,000
Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography · Akron, OH · 2024
To renew support for the creative administrative research program
- $250,000
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support the us artist-to-artist coalition as part of artists at risk connection
- $250,000
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for organizational and programmatic capacity
- $250,000
Pueblo City-County Library District · Pueblo, CO · 2024
To support the activities of the memory lab
- $250,000
Riverside Art Museum · Riverside, CA · 2024
To continue support for general operations
- $250,000
Simmons University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the planning and launch of the center for information literacy
- $250,000
South Asian American Digital Archive · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support new business model development through change-capital funding
- $250,000
South Side Community Art Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support organizational capacity and planning for the preservation and renovation of the center
- $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
- $250,000
The African American Policy Forum · New York, NY · 2024
To support the critical race theory summer school
- $250,000
The Black School · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support the construction of the black schoolhouse building and to continue support for organizational capacity and community-focused artist programs
- $250,000
The Contemporary Arts Center · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
To support conservation, photography, and a scholarly catalog
- $250,000
The Forum for Urban Design · New York, NY · 2024
To support staffing for a new community-focused public space design network, local partner trainings, and subgrants to community partners for their respective projects
- $250,000
The Hetrick-Martin Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To support exhibits, artist stipends, research, and documentation of a sponsored project
- $250,000
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art · New York, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $250,000
The Minnesota Opera · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To continue support for the local artist ensemble and new works initiative
- $250,000
University of Puerto Rico at Ro Piedras · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support planning for the digital humanities hub
- $250,000
Unmanageable · Nashville, TN · 2024
To support capacity building and producing partnerships for artists
- $250,000
West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition · Delray Beach, FL · 2024
To support planning and design, historical and cultural narrative collection, resilient land use, and improvement of the built environment
- $250,000
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support work related to experimental music
- $250,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2024
To support the completion of a documentary by a sponsored project
- $250,000
Afro Charities · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support construction and operating costs for the afro archives
- $250,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the center for embodied pedagogy and action (cepa)
- $250,000
Aspire Higher Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
To support increased organizational capacity and programming for a neighborhood history project
- $250,000
Centro De Periodismo Investigativo · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support cpi's climate and disaster investigative unit and the diaspora expansion project
- $250,000
Comedores Sociales De Puerto Rico · Caguas, PR · 2023
To support general operations
- $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
- $250,000
Faulkner Morgan Archive · Lexington, KY · 2023
To support general operations
- $250,000
Haser · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support capacity building
- $250,000
Heritedge Connection · 2023
To support general operations
- $250,000
Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2023
To support the relaunch of the center for court innovations project reset brooklyn, an arts-based diversion program offering an innovative response to low-level arrests
- $250,000
Leeway Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support programs that model inclusive philanthropic practices and honor artists as the cultural lifeblood of communities
- $250,000
Makerere University · 2023
To support the establishment of a center for excellence in teaching in the humanities
- $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
Taller Comunidad La Goyco · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support general operations
- $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
University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for christopher fan
- $250,000
University of Ghana · 2023
To continue support for graduate student training in the humanities
- $250,000
University of Massachusetts at Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023
To support the establishment of a fellows program in decolonial global studies, and the development of a graduate certificate in the field
- $250,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
To support the american indian centers continued community partnerships, through a regranting program to the eight native nations who share geography with the state of north carolina, student internships, and capacity n… read allTo support the american indian centers continued community partnerships, through a regranting program to the eight native nations who share geography with the state of north carolina, student internships, and capacity needed for continued public programming less
- $250,000
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2023
To support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections
- $250,000
American Symphony Orchestra League · New York, NY · 2022
To provide a final round of support for the league's efforts to accelerate inclusiveness and equity in american orchestras
- $250,000
Arts Council of the African Studies Association · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support organizational capacity for scholarly exchanges, programming, and ongoing restitution efforts
- $250,000
Assoc of Independent Colleges of Art & Design · Providence, RI · 2022
To support strategic planning, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities
- $250,000
Assoc of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022
To support a fund for repatriation and collections care
- $250,000
Atlanta Historical Society · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support operations and capacity for the civic season
- $250,000
El Paso Museum of Art · El Paso, TX · 2022
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2022
To support the rikers public memory project
- $250,000
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2022
To support new business model development through change-capital funding
- $250,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support the implementation phase of projects giving agency to artists, technologists, and thinkers
- $250,000
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2022
To support the us artist-to-artist coalition as part of artists at risk connection
- $250,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2022
To support the planning and development for penumbra's center for racial healing
- $250,000
Riverside Art Museum · Riverside, CA · 2022
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
Signature Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2022
To support the activation of sigspace
- $250,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the 1898: the american imperium project
- $250,000
The Alliance of Hbcu Museums and Galleries · Marietta, GA · 2022
To support capacity building
- $250,000
The Carnegie Hall Corporation · New York, NY · 2022
To support the national youth orchestra 2
- $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
The Laundromat Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support anchoring in community and the create change artist development program
- $250,000
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art · New York, NY · 2022
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
Tufts University · Medford, MA · 2022
To support the inauguration of a new graduate certificate in anti-racist curatorial practice
- $250,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
To support general operations at the c.n. Gorman museum
- $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

