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

$2.0M
The Historymakers · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
$2.0M
The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
To support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond
$2.0M
The Zeitz Mocaa Foundation · 2024
To support general operations
$2.0M
University of Missouri at Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support historical and preservation projects as well as public programming across the kansas city region
$2.0M
University of Missouri at Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$2.0M
Cave Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support general operations
$2.0M
City of Boston · Boston, MA · 2023
To support community and curatorial partnerships, new temporary commemorative installations, and related public programs
$2.0M
College of Charleston · Charleston, SC · 2023
To support the avery research center in african american history and culture in collection processing, digitization, and outreach and engagement activities
$2.0M
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation · Williamsburg, VA · 2023
To support the preservation, relocation and restoration of the williamsburg bray school and development of public programming
$2.0M
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2023
To support a regranting competition for audio and audiovisual preservation and an evaluation of the program to inform future strategy
$2.0M
Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Institute · Summit Argo, IL · 2023
To support the capital costs related to the exterior restoration of roberts temple, organizational capacity building, and design and fundraising costs needed to advance future phases of work
$2.0M
Fulton County Library System · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support the auburn ave. Research library on african american culture and history in collection processing, digitization, and community and outreach engagement activities
$2.0M
National Park Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support engagement with emmett tills story and sites in mississippi
$2.0M
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association · Ashland, OR · 2023
To continue support for organizational development and capacity building
$2.0M
Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support an initiative to increase the size of the universitys black studies faculty and establish a detroit center for black studies
$2.0M
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York · New York, NY · 2022
To provide a final round of support for the new york theater program
$2.0M
City of Bisbee · Bisbee, AZ · 2022
To support the naco heritage alliance with the rehabilitation and enhancement of historic buildings, new public programming, and artist and scholar residencies at camp naco
$2.0M
Council On Library and Information Resources · Alexandria, VA · 2022
To support a regranting competition for audio and audiovisual preservation and an evaluation of the program to inform future strategy
$2.0M
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2022
To support operations and staffing for the expanded legacy museum and the new legacy gallery
$2.0M
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · Powell, WY · 2022
To support the construction of the mineta-simpson institute
$2.0M
Laxart · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the monuments exhibition and public programming
$2.0M
San Francisco Public Library · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services
$2.0M
University of Toronto · 2022
To support the further development of an international research initiative developing new approaches to understanding the global history of the book
$2.0M
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University · Blacksburg, VA · 2022
To support a multi-year public history initiative that explores representations of appalachia's individuals, communities, and histories
$2.0M
Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support an initiative to increase the size of the university's black studies faculty and establish a detroit center for black studies
$2.0M
Institute for Citizens and Scholars · Princeton, NJ · 2022
To continue support for the career enhancement fellowship for junior faculty
$1.9M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To support the creation of a humanities-based environmental justice studies curriculum and associated projects
$1.9M
Foot Soldiers Park · Selma, AL · 2023
To support strategic planning, organizational capacity building, and the acquisition of land parcels for a planned commemorative park and educational center
$1.8M
City College of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support internship programming for humanities students
$1.8M
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To support the expansion of an archival information platform
$1.8M
Michigan Department of Natural Resources · Lansing, MI · 2024
To support michigan history center's gchi mshiiken deh minising/heart of great turtle island project
$1.8M
Michigan Department of Natural Resources · Lansing, MI · 2023
To support michigan history center's gchi mshiiken deh minising/heart of great turtle island project
$1.8M
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
To support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of freedom colonies
$1.8M
Victoria Theater Arts Center · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
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
$1.8M
Alaska Native Heritage Center · Anchorage, AK · 2024
To support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks
$1.8M
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support organizational capacity, training, and a regranting program for cultural heritage projects in sub-saharan africa
$1.8M
US Biennial · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support a selection of monumental works at prospect.6
$1.8M
The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2023
To support conservation and preservation of the collections
$1.8M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the creation of the irei names monument
$1.8M
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support organizational capacity, training, and a regranting program for cultural heritage projects in sub-saharan africa
$1.8M
The Studio Museum in Harlem · New York, NY · 2022
To support conservation and preservation of the collections
$1.8M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the creation of the irei names monument
$1.7M
Clemson University · Clemson, SC · 2023
To support the creation of an interactive black american heritage trail
$1.7M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the movements against mass incarceration lab
$1.7M
Museum of West African Art Ltdgte · 2024
To support capacity, partnerships, and construction of artist studios and a residency guest house
$1.7M
Fundacion Puertorriquena De Las Humanidades · San Juan, PR · 2022
To support hurricane fiona response in puerto rico
$1.7M
The Black School · New Orleans, LA · 2022
To support the construction of the black schoolhouse building and to continue support for organizational capacity and community-focused artist programs
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities phds
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities phds
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To support an open competition addressing sustainable digital infrastructures and promoting justice and equity in digital scholarly practice
$1.7M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2023
To support an open competition addressing sustainable digital infrastructures and promoting justice and equity in digital scholarly practice
$1.6M
The Theater Offensive · Boston, MA · 2024
To support capital costs and programming at the boylston black box
$1.6M
Counterpublic · St Louis, MO · 2022
To support artistic and public memory projects
$1.6M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities
$1.6M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities
$1.6M
Alliance of Artists Communities · Providence, RI · 2022
To support developing an artist-nominated fund, convenings and programming, research efforts, and increasing staff to grow capacity
$1.6M
Technische Universitt Dortmund · 2023
To continue support for scholars at risk at the academy in exile
$1.6M
Sylvester Manor Educational Farm · Shelter Island, NY · 2024
To support the historic manor house renovation and expanded history & heritage department programming and staffing
$1.6M
University of Maryland Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with morgan state university and the university of maryland at college park
$1.6M
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To continue support for indigenous foodways education
$1.5M
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships
$1.5M
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support transformative leadership
$1.5M
Central Indiana Community Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
To support henderson developments preservation of the historic colored knights of pythias building and related planning, feasibility, and community engagement
$1.5M
Centro De Economa Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support an initiative to stabilize and strengthen contemporary artists and artist-centered organizations across puerto rico
$1.5M
City of Bisbee · Bisbee, AZ · 2024
To support the naco heritage alliance with the rehabilitation and enhancement of historic buildings, new public programming, and artist and scholar residencies at camp naco
$1.5M
Cuyahoga Community College · Cleveland, OH · 2024
To support a final round of the cleveland humanities collaborative, that seeks to increase participation in humanities education & degree attainment across the humanities disciplines
$1.5M
Flamboyan Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the continuation of the letras boricuas fellowship for writers from puerto rico and the diaspora
$1.5M
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2024
To support a final round of the humanities edge program, a partnership between miami dade college and florida international university
$1.5M
Forge Project Association · Ancram, NY · 2024
To support organizational capacity and a lending collection of indigenous works
$1.5M
Fund for Public Housing · New York, NY · 2024
To support a nycha arts liaison, artists-in-residence salaries and benefits, stipends for participating nycha residents, and materials and fabrication fees for the space activations
$1.5M
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue support for the social impact initiative
$1.5M
Miami Dade College · Miami, FL · 2024
To support a final round of the humanities edge program, a partnership between miami dade college and florida international university
$1.5M
San Francisco Arts Commission · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the pulse check: accountability and activation of future sf monuments initiative
$1.5M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To establish endowments at the national museum of african american history and culture in support of the museum's directorship and curatorial research centers
$1.5M
Swiss Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for a coalition effort of mid-sized arts organizations in new york city
$1.5M
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue to support and strengthen the rising presidents fellowship, which develops cohorts of community college leaders with the skills needed to transform their institutions and impact the field
$1.5M
The City of Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2024
To support the implementation of the pack square plaza vision plan and commemorative projects
$1.5M
University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2024
To support a humanities-centered internship program
$1.5M
Alianza De Museos De Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support puerto rico afro
$1.5M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support for the justice-in-education initiative which provides educational opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons
$1.5M
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2023
To support muloma heritage center and diaspora kitchens site development; construction of teaching kitchens; and increased organizational capacity, including culinary and food scholar residencies to lead food programming
$1.5M
Fund for Public Housing · New York, NY · 2023
To support a nycha arts liaison, artists-in-residence salaries and benefits, stipends for participating nycha residents, and materials and fabrication fees for the space activations
$1.5M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023
To support a collaboration between howard and georgetown universities to establish a joint center in health humanities grounded in the community needs of washington, dc
$1.5M
Lyrasis · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To provide a final round of support for performing arts readiness
$1.5M
Montpelier Foundation · Montpelier Station, VA · 2023
To support the creation of a memorial to the individuals who were enslaved at montpelier
$1.5M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To support the sustainability of networked resources, developed by and for indigenous communities, for appropriate access to their cultural heritage materials, including data
$1.5M
San Francisco Arts Commission · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support the pulse check: accountability and activation of future sf monuments initiative
$1.5M
The Academy of American Poets · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support of the local poets laureate fellowship
$1.5M
The City of Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2023
To support the implementation of the pack square plaza vision plan and commemorative projects
$1.5M
Ameelio · New Haven, CT · 2022
To provide general operating support
$1.5M
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
To support curricular development, field diversification, academic mentorship, and public humanities work around race in premodern humanities fields (early modern, medieval, classics)
$1.5M
Flamboyan Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support hurricane fiona response in puerto rico
$1.5M
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications · Arlington, VA · 2022
To support development of the crime and punishment in america documentary series
$1.5M
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Fdn · North Adams, MA · 2022
To support the national expansion of artists at work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities
$1.5M
Salem State University · Salem, MA · 2022
To support the establishment of a national network of regional comprehensive universities that develop undergraduate-focused digital humanities with an emphasis on ethnic studies and community engagement
$1.5M
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To establish endowments at the national museum of african american history and culture in support of the museum's directorship and curatorial research centers
$1.5M
Social and Public Art Resource Center · Venice, CA · 2022
To support the preservation, activation, and expansion of "the great wall of los angeles", on of the country's largest monuments to interracial harmony through civic engagement and muralist training
$1.5M
The Community College of Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support humanities for today
$1.5M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To continue support for a digital futures collaborative network
$1.5M
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2024
To support a final round of the cleveland humanities collaborative, that seeks to increase participation in humanities education & degree attainment across the humanities disciplines