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

$250,000
University of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022
To support the curation and stewardship of poetry archives related to 20th-century poet-activists of color and a digital publishing and poet-in-residence project that draws on these collections
$250,000
University of Wisconsin at Madison · Madison, WI · 2022
To support the re:mancipation project, in collaboration with the curriculum department at the school of education, artist sanford biggers, and the mask consortium, inc.
$250,000
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center · New York, NY · 2022
To support the vartan and clare gregorian programming fund
$245,000
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project · Jacksonville, FL · 2024
To support community-led research efforts and discussion, planning, and engagement with the black atlantic's silenced and ignored histories
$244,800
Ka Ohana O Kalaupapa · Kalaupapa, HI · 2024
To support the creation of a digital archive honoring the lives and histories of the people of kalaupapa
$244,000
The Valentine Museum · Richmond, VA · 2023
To support the reimagining of the studio of sculptor edward valentine and the reinterpretation of the wickham house
$242,000
Crowded Fire Theater · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To continue support of playwright star finch's residency for an additional three years through the national playwright residency program
$240,000
Harmony Labs · New York, NY · 2024
To support research around public perceptions of and attitudes towards the humanities
$240,000
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
To support a final renewal for the museum research consortium, an object-based training program in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history
$239,000
Colby College · Waterville, ME · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for sarah duff
$233,333
University of Puerto Rico at Ro Piedras · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support faculty development in the afro-diasporic program
$233,333
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras · San Juan, PR · 2022
To support faculty development in the afro-diasporic program
$233,000
University of California at Merced · Merced, CA · 2024
To support a new directions fellowship
$231,808
Mississippi Heritage Trust · Jackson, MS · 2024
To support efforts to identify, document, and stabilize mississippi's freedom houses
$230,207
International Contemporary Ensemble Found · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support iceensemble collaborations and mentorship of creators and artists
$230,000
West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support reconstruction and preservation of the robeson houses of philadelphia and princeton, as well as increased organizational capacity for collaborative initiatives
$225,000
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "reimagining technologies of care: racial health equity and data justice"
$225,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
To support the #africanofilter donor collaborative as the initiative transitions into its next chapter as a thriving organization
$225,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "thinking food @ the intersections: justice and critical food studies"
$225,000
While We Are Still Here · New York, NY · 2024
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
$225,000
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "us and eu border externalization regimes: ethics, identities, and impacts"
$225,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "global indigenous studies in action: centering indigenous knowledges, promoting reciprocal approaches to community engagement, and examining opp… read allTo support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "global indigenous studies in action: centering indigenous knowledges, promoting reciprocal approaches to community engagement, and examining opportunities for coalition building" less
$225,000
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "creative placemaking, black restorative ecologies, and black spatial futures"
$225,000
Lawyers for the Creative Arts · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support general operations
$225,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative of cultures entitled "on decolonizing theatre"
$225,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "the afterlives of liberation: antiracist praxis for the twenty-first century"
$225,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "potentialities of justice: toward collective reparative futures"
$225,000
The Descendants Project · Vacherie, LA · 2023
To support the many waters site reconstruction, equipment, and the development of various descendant community and cultural heritage programs and services
$225,000
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "transpacific thought and the problem of asia"
$225,000
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "birthing the nation: gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries"
$225,000
Tulane University · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "the new green wave: reproductive justice in the gulf south and beyond"
$225,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "beyond othello the moor: seminar for interdisciplinary study of blackness and muslimness in the context of white supremacy"
$225,000
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "just policing: transnational perspectives on the definition and possibility of justice in law enforcement"
$225,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2022
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "imperiled bodies: slavery, colonialism, citizenship and the logics of gender-based violence"
$225,000
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "global slaveries, fugitivity, and the afterlives of unfreedom: interconnections in comparative dialogue"
$224,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "the data that divides us: recalibrating data methods for new knowledge frameworks across the humanities"
$223,000
University of Toronto · 2022
To support a sawyer seminar on the comparative study of cultures entitled "evasion: thinking the underside of surveillance"
$222,300
Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the artistic practice and sustainable organizational development of dancer and choreographer antoine hunter and urban jazz dance company
$222,000
Swarthmore College · Swarthmore, PA · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for olivia sabee
$221,000
Sozo Impact · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support the dream machine project as the first phase of the nonaverse, the nona hendryx legacy framework
$220,000
Grinnell College · Grinnell, IA · 2023
To support a new directions fellowship for elizabeth rodrigues
$218,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
To support the artistic practice and sustainable organizational development of dancer and choreographer krishna washburn and dark room ballet
$218,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
To support dancer, choreographer, and teacher ifasina clear in the planning and implementation of fat black disabled art church
$217,000
Velocity Dance Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support artist saira barbaric's research, investigation, and design of an accessible dance structure
$215,000
Keysmith Foundation · Round Rock, TX · 2024
To support the stabilization and operational capacity of the l.v. Hull legacy center and legacy consultancy for the artist's estate
$215,000
Indiana University · Bloomington, IN · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for alberto varon
$212,000
Henry Street Settlement · New York, NY · 2022
To support christopher nuyez's creative and administrative collaborators and organizational design
$210,000
Fiji Theater Company · New York, NY · 2024
To support the planning for a legacy archive and succession
$210,000
Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To continue support of pathways initiatives for musicians from communities underrepresented in concert music professions
$206,000
The University of British Columbia · 2024
To support a new directions fellowship
$205,000
Ps1 Contemporary Art Center · New York, NY · 2023
To support the daniel lind-ramos: el viejo griot una historia de todos nosotros exhibit
$204,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To support a new directions fellowship for raven garvey
$200,000
Apoyonline - Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas · Rockville, MD · 2024
To support general operations
$200,000
Colorado Asian Pacific United · Aurora, CO · 2024
To support organizational capacity
$200,000
Era Footwork Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
$200,000
Gyopo · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a collective of diasporic korean cultural producers and arts professionals
$200,000
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd · New York, NY · 2024
To support and facilitate a responsible leadership transition
$200,000
Kounkuey Design Initiative · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the development of an engagement guide and curriculum; a park history audit tool; and an assessment of selected los angeles parks
$200,000
Manilatown Heritage Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$200,000
Mexic-Arte Museum · Austin, TX · 2024
To continue support for general operations
$200,000
National Hispanic Cultural Center · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
To continue support for operations and programming for the art museum and visual arts program
$200,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support planning work of a sponsored project
$200,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the census equity initiative's efforts to ensure the census and american community survey fairly enumerate historically undercounted populations
$200,000
Nonprofit New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support general operations
$200,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support arts-based programs to address housing insecurity in boston
$200,000
Rennie Harris Puremovement · Sharon Hill, PA · 2024
To support rennie harris's company and curriculum, to broaden public understanding of hip-hop aesthetics and street dance culture
$200,000
Scholars at Risk · New York, NY · 2024
To support activities of the us chapters of the scholars at risk network
$200,000
Schwab Charitable · Orlando, FL · 2024
Matching gift
$200,000
Silk Road Project · Boston, MA · 2024
To support innovative artistic community, capacity building, and plans to develop the american silkroad
$200,000
Sustainable Economies Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support general operations
$200,000
The Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2024
To support the documentary film of a sponsored project
$200,000
The Map Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for map fund core grant and spa program
$200,000
The New School · New York, NY · 2024
To support phase ii improvements to safeguard the new school's orozco mural room
$200,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To continue to support general operations for the berkeley art museum and pacific film archive
$200,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To continue to support general operations for the gorman museum of native american art
$200,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To support a research incubator
$200,000
Victoria Theater Arts Center · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
To support the construction of victoria theater and its new community spaces and programs focused on the arts, cultural heritage, and social justice in st. Paul
$200,000
Virgin Islands Center for Architecture Crafts and Build Heritage · Christiansted St Cro, VI · 2024
To support strategic planning and design for community and cultural heritage spaces at the old barracks property in christiansted, st. Croix
$200,000
Yestermorrow · Waitsfield, VT · 2024
To support organizational capacity and development, cultural and educational programming on traditional building methods and cultural practices, and a public archive of spatialized stories from din community members
$200,000
Cave Canem Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archives
$200,000
Council of State Archivists · Boston, MA · 2023
To support a planning effort to advance the stewardship and use of data related to state and territorial archives
$200,000
Creative Capital Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support seed and finish line funding as well as professional development for asian, black, indigenous, and latinx creators utilizing the kickstarter platform
$200,000
Dance Iquail · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support artistic expansion and exploration for dance iquail!
$200,000
Fiji Theater Company · New York, NY · 2023
To support the planning for a legacy archive and succession
$200,000
Friends of Belmont Beach · Indianapolis, IN · 2023
To support friends of belmont beachs site research and historic interpretation, historic site designation, organizational planning, and board development
$200,000
Gerberhart Library and Archives · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support general operations
$200,000
Gullah Traveling Theater · Beaufort, SC · 2023
To support expanded staffing and organizational capacity, board development, and a long-term sustainability plan
$200,000
Journalism Funding Partners · Sacramento, CA · 2023
To support epicenter-nyc's planning for the creation of community hubs focused through arts, culture, and news, space feasibility studies, and organizational capacity
$200,000
Legal Services Corporation · Washington, DC · 2023
To continue support for the civil court data initiative
$200,000
New York Landmarks Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023
To support organizational capacity and development for united order of tents of brooklyn of the eastern district no. 3, project planning for the preservation of the site and related programming and interpretation
$200,000
Temple University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support demonstration projects to advance the argument that text and data mining of content constitute applications of fair use under the digital millennium copyright act
$200,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support public rights project
$200,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To support demonstration projects to advance the argument that text and data mining of content constitute applications of fair use under the digital millennium copyright act
$200,000
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2022
To support demonstration projects to advance the argument that text and data mining of content constitute applications of fair use under the digital millennium copyright act
$200,000
Graham Gund Gallery · Gambier, OH · 2022
To support general operations
$200,000
Libraries Without Borders · New York, NY · 2022
To support planning for a community archive project in loiza, puerto rico
$200,000
Mexic-Arte Museum · Austin, TX · 2022
To support curatorial capacity
$200,000
Music To Life · Wilder, VT · 2022
To support the activist musician accelerator program
$200,000
New Orleans African American Museum of Art · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To support capacity building and the acquisition of vulnerable collections
$200,000
The Institute of Contemporary Art · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the "loophole of retreat" symposium a an exhibition catalogue associated with the presentation of simone leigh's representation of the united states for the american pavilion at the venice biennale