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
- $150,000
Arts Business Collaborative · Woodside, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $150,000
Association of Historians of American Art · Oviedo, FL · 2023
To support a managing editor position for panorama journal
- $150,000
Bailey'S Cafe · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support stoops' free public place-focused arts and culture programs in brooklyn
- $150,000
Baruch College · New York, NY · 2023
To support an expansion of baruch college's black and latino studies major
- $150,000
Blank Forms · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support amir elsaffar's exploratory work developing the maqm project
- $150,000
Bowie State University · Bowie, MD · 2023
To support community fellow participants; stipends for faculty; the creation of a digital archive, art exhibit, and podcast; and subgrants to three community organizations for historic preservation projects
- $150,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
To support prototyping of how systemic racism works: an interactive experience
- $150,000
Cave Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support an evaluation of cultural solidarity fund, a mutual aid emergency relief program for artists launched during the peak of the covid-19 pandemic
- $150,000
Center for Effective Public Policy · Kensington, MD · 2023
To support the justice scholar strategy network
- $150,000
Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support planning for an archive of interviews that document the history of the association of community organizations for reform now
- $150,000
City Lore · New York, NY · 2023
To support a collection of oral histories of artists and others participating in the comprehensive and employment training act of 1973
- $150,000
Composers Now · New York, NY · 2023
To support organizational and programmatic expansion
- $150,000
Educopia Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support the development of a model for the long-term preservation and documentation of the wintergreen women writers' collective
- $150,000
Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade Committee · New Haven, CT · 2023
To support the freddy fixer parade through community events with artists and culture bearers, regrants for performers in the parade, and development support
- $150,000
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University · Tallahassee, FL · 2023
To support a planning effort to increase public access to collections held by the meek-eaton black archives, research center, and museum
- $150,000
Foundation for Independent Artists · New York, NY · 2023
To support a convening in harare to launch nora chipaumire's new artist community and residency space, nhererahub
- $150,000
Hooulu Lhui · Hilo, HI · 2023
To support k-a-kanaka's hoomakaukau hina project and the development of a master plan which will launch a two-year training program that elevates the preparation, knowledge and consumption of traditional hawaiian foods
- $150,000
Indiespace · Astoria, NY · 2023
To support adc consulting, llc with a research project to better understand the role of arts service organizations
- $150,000
Institute for Education Research and Scholarships · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support expanded archaeological and historical research as well as public programming for the christiansborg archaeological heritage project
- $150,000
Lambda Literary Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archive through assessment of lambda's holdings and the potential ways it may support the existing network of queer literary archives
- $150,000
Latino Cultural Arts Center · Denver, CO · 2023
To support the mexican cultural arts alliance
- $150,000
Miami-Dade North Arts & Humanities Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023
To support master planning and related public programming for the miami museum of contemporary art of the african diaspora
- $150,000
Morgan State University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support staffing at plantation park heights urban farm, a summer course, leadership training on food heritage and other programming
- $150,000
Music To Life · Wilder, VT · 2023
To support the activist musician accelerator program
- $150,000
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies · Washington, DC · 2023
To support two cultural policy fellows to support interagency partnerships
- $150,000
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts Ny · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support analyses of new york city neighborhood networks and the development of asset and power mapping tools
- $150,000
Norfolk State University · Norfolk, VA · 2023
To support a project to track and catalog the records of enslaved individuals sold from virginia to new orleans in the nineteenth century
- $150,000
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $150,000
Rennie Harris Puremovement · Sharon Hill, PA · 2023
To support legacy planning for rennie harris
- $150,000
Rgisc · Laredo, TX · 2023
To support general operations
- $150,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To support black feminism in the public sphere
- $150,000
Sacred Liberation · El Paso, TX · 2023
To support general operations
- $150,000
Shift Design · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support an architecting sustainable futures follow-up convening or asf@5 for community-based archives in 2023
- $150,000
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support planning for the future of small press traffic's archives
- $150,000
South Asian American Digital Archive · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development of a comprehensive business and sustai… read allTo support the creation of a narrative walking tour and interactive digital map; archival and historical research; oral history interviews with local residents; and the development of a comprehensive business and sustainability plan less
- $150,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2023
To support the production of a symposium and essay volume featuring scholars who engage with literature on memorialization and consider how memory informs the histories of the south and west
- $150,000
Summaeverythang Community Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support artist directed action and practice in south central los angeles
- $150,000
The Asian American Education Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support work with artists to develop storytelling methodology and curricula
- $150,000
The Miami Center for Racial Justice · Palmetto Bay, FL · 2023
To support general operations
- $150,000
The Misty Copeland Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support be bold's teaching artist fees and curriculum development
- $150,000
The National Black Theatre Workshop · New York, NY · 2023
To support a remount of the gathering: a sonic ring shout at the kennedy center
- $150,000
The National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support planning for the future of the organization's archives
- $150,000
The Nature of Cities · New York, NY · 2023
To support research and planning stages for the iao design lab & garden, a food heritage and culture project
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
To support the loudreaders trade schools programs in the caribbean including fellowships, workshops, public lectures, and a digital archive
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
To support the 2024 edition of the under the radar festival
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
To support consultants, dancers, necessary permits, public events, and capacity building for dance is life
- $150,000
The William Paterson University of New Jersey · Wayne, NJ · 2023
To support the inter-campus celebration of artist and educator ben jones
- $150,000
University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To support an interconnected sequence of collective projects among academics, artists, and activists focused on the critique of and counter-imaginary to contemporary authoritarianism
- $150,000
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2023
To support a planning process for an artists and scholars program
- $150,000
University of Ghana · 2023
To support and enhance doctoral training in the humanities
- $150,000
University of Ghana · 2023
To support the establishment of a center for teaching and learning for the humanities
- $150,000
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2023
To continue to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at research universities
- $150,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To support the academic leadership institute
- $150,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support a planning process that involves community engagement and arts programming for the henry o. Tanner house
- $150,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the social impact of the arts study in new york city
- $150,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
To support making music, a documentary about awadagin pratt
- $150,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support the obsidian theatre festival
- $150,000
American Council of Learned Societies · New York, NY · 2022
To conclude support for a program of research fellowships for community college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
- $150,000
Asian Arts Initiative · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To continue support for community and artist-informed programming
- $150,000
Baldwin for the Arts · Brewster, NY · 2022
To support capacity for artist-founded residency serving the creative global majority
- $150,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2022
To support development of a document that highlights existing examples and future visions of the humanities center as a space for experiment and innovation
- $150,000
Chapel & York Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To support planning for little amal's us tour and local activity in the borderlands
- $150,000
Culture Push · New York, NY · 2022
To support community engagement residencies and the creation of artwork for what does purple sound like
- $150,000
God'S Love We Deliver · New York, NY · 2022
To support general operations
- $150,000
Governors Island Corporation · New York, NY · 2022
To support the american manifest, a public art installation by charles gaines
- $150,000
Indiana Universitypurdue University Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
To support development of a set of recommendations that offers meaningful strategies for decolonizing the university and promotes indigenous sovereignty on campus
- $150,000
King Baudouin Foundation US · New York, NY · 2022
To support a planning process for creating an online archive for contemporary and (c&)
- $150,000
Knox College · Galesburg, IL · 2022
To support development of guidelines for sustainable practices of care in the academy for faculty, staff, and administrators across multiple institution types
- $150,000
Leeway Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support programs that model inclusive philanthropic practices and honor artists as the cultural lifeblood of communities
- $150,000
Lilly Awards Foundation · New York City, NY · 2022
To support the activation of the lorraine hansberry sculpture through community based programming
- $150,000
Manilatown Heritage Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support sustainability planning for the community-based archive
- $150,000
Mary Miss - City As Living Laboratory · New York, NY · 2022
To support restoration, community engagement, and preservation of important cultural histories
- $150,000
Mexicali Biennial · Whittier, CA · 2022
To support organizational capacity and implementation of the mexicali biennial as part of the borderlands culture fund
- $150,000
New Haven Festivals · New Haven, CT · 2022
To support on memory initiative's organizational capacity and community engagement, artist stipends, and public programming in new haven
- $150,000
New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support strategic planning activities
- $150,000
New York Live Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support hope boykin's dance project honoring the legacy of shirley caesar and early administrative infrastructure for hopeboykindance
- $150,000
New York Live Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support a website and digital archives planning project for okwui okpokwasili and peter born
- $150,000
Nia Cultural Center · Galveston, TX · 2022
To support public programming at the nia cultural juneteenth legacy project headquarters and art gallery and build organizational capacity
- $150,000
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support executive transition, operational capacity building, and digital strategy planning to facilitate indigenous foodways education and access
- $150,000
Open Collective Foundation · Walnut, CA · 2022
To support the solidarity economy movement by centering systems-change work led by artists and culture-bearers
- $150,000
Paso Del Norte Community Foundation · El Paso, TX · 2022
To support the fund for ethical practices of transborder art
- $150,000
Pike School of Art - Mississippi · McComb, MS · 2022
To support increased staff support, equitable salaries, and planning for their site and subsequent cultural plan
- $150,000
Rair · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support general operations
- $150,000
Roundabout Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for the theatrical workforce development program
- $150,000
San Francisco Parks Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support friends of harvey milk plaza's organizational capacity and planning for harvey milk plaza
- $150,000
Space Gallery · Portland, ME · 2022
To support the re-site initiative including historian and artist stipends and public programming
- $150,000
The Queens Library Foundation · Jamaica, NY · 2022
To support the development of the queens memory monuments project
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
To support research for building infrastructures that would help artists with asset ownership as an economic justice and equity strategy
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
To support bridge funding for creative and independent producer alliance
- $150,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
To support project-related costs for the black trans artists under them records initiative as well as monthly stipends for each artist and production costs for community showcases
- $150,000
Thomas Jefferson Foundation · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
To support the ascendant juneteenth public programming
- $150,000
Transform 1012 N Main Street · Fort Worth, TX · 2022
To support the project's core staffing needs and continued planning activities
- $150,000
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To support capacity and management of the mexican american art since 1848 project, an open-source portal that compiles digital collections of mexican american visual art
- $150,000
Women'S Center for Creative Work · Glendale, CA · 2022
To support the re-establishment of a shared leadership model including research, implementation, and public conversations around organizational change
- $145,000
Flickr Charitable Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the development of a mechanism, called a data lifeboat, to preserve photograph collections hosted by flickr
- $145,000
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville · Edwardsville, IL · 2024
To support a series of convenings of black college and university presidents
- $144,000
University of Oxford · 2024
To support a research project on archiving algorithms and the social data related to them
- $141,411
University of Cambridge · 2022
To be matched two-to-one over five years, the annual income of which would be used to fund interdisciplinary programs organized and administered by the centre for research in the arts, social sciences and humanities
- $140,000
Noah Purifoy Foundation · Joshua Tree, CA · 2024
To support the conservation and preservation of the noah purifoy outdoor desert art museum
- $130,000
Library of Congress · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the completion of preservation research for shared-print collections

