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
- $100,000
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2023
To support the institute for women's studies
- $100,000
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the latin american and latino studies department
- $100,000
University of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2023
To support the department of pan-african studies
- $100,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2023
To support the department of african american studies
- $100,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2023
To support the harriet tubman department of women, gender, and sexuality studies
- $100,000
University of Maryland Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support the department of gender, women's, + sexuality studies
- $100,000
University of Massachusetts at Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023
To support the women, gender, sexuality studies program
- $100,000
University of Massachusetts Boston · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the womens, gender, and sexuality studies department
- $100,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To support the department of afroamerican and african studies
- $100,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To support the ethnic studies program in the department of american culture
- $100,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To support the department of women's and gender studies
- $100,000
University of Nebraskalincoln · Lincoln, NE · 2023
To support the womens and gender studies program
- $100,000
University of New Hampshire · Durham, NH · 2023
To support the department of women's and gender studies
- $100,000
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
To support the native american studies department
- $100,000
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
To support the department of chicana and chicano studies
- $100,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
To support the department of womens and gender studies
- $100,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
To support the department of african, african american, and diaspora studies
- $100,000
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2023
To support the department of africana studies
- $100,000
University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2023
To support the african american and african diaspora studies program
- $100,000
University of North Carolina at Greensboro · Greensboro, NC · 2023
To support the womens, gender, and sexuality studies program
- $100,000
University of Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2023
To support the department of indigenous, race, and ethnic studies
- $100,000
University of Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2023
To support the department of womens, gender, and sexuality studies
- $100,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To support the department of africana studies
- $100,000
University of Rhode Island · Kingston, RI · 2023
To support the department of gender and women's studies
- $100,000
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2023
To support the department of womens and gender studies
- $100,000
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
To support the department of african and african diaspora studies
- $100,000
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
To support the division of gender studies
- $100,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
To support the department of african american and african studies
- $100,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
To support accessibility of digital educational resources for students with disabilities
- $100,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the department of american indian studies
- $100,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the department of gender, women & sexuality studies
- $100,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the ethnic, gender, and labor studies program in the division of social and historical studies
- $100,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the department of american ethnic studies
- $100,000
University of Wisconsin at Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
To support the department of gender & women's studies
- $100,000
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
To support the womens & gender studies program
- $100,000
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2023
To support the department of gender, sexuality and womens studies
- $100,000
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2023
To support the department of african american studies
- $100,000
West Chester University of Pennsylvania · West Chester, PA · 2023
To support the department of women's and gender studies
- $100,000
Young Invincibles · Washington, DC · 2023
To support general operations
- $100,000
Authors Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 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
- $100,000
Bowdoin College · Brunswick, ME · 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
- $100,000
Collective Focus Resource Hub · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support recurring food and culture programming, the production of educational media spanning from these events, and increased organizational capacity
- $100,000
Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network · Denver, CO · 2022
To support the installation of historical markers and a large-scale mural by a local asian artist to reflect colorado's asian american history and the legacy of the chinatown community in denver's downtown
- $100,000
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the alliance for higher education in prison
- $100,000
Jewish Community Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Matching gift
- $100,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To support initiatives at the state and national levels that would promote a fair and accurate census in 2030
- $100,000
Swipe Out Hunger · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support general operations
- $100,000
Young Invincibles · Washington, DC · 2022
To support general operations
- $100,000
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation · Winstonsalem, NC · 2022
To support the inclusive public art initiative
- $98,000
Society of American Archivists Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support a pilot for archival training that centers indigenous needs and perspectives
- $95,000
Association To Preserve the Eatonville Community · Eatonville, FL · 2024
To preserve and rehouse the eatonville community archive collections
- $92,400
The Eyebeam Atelier · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support a partnership with momus and forge project to deliver a virtual and in-person residency for indigenous emerging art writers and editors in spring 2023
- $90,000
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2024
To support additional conservation work needed on a set of scrolls in the herculaneum papyri collection
- $90,000
Beyond Legal Aid · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support programs evaluation
- $90,000
Miami Valley Public Media · Yellow Springs, OH · 2022
To support the preservation of historical audio collections held by campus radio stations at historically black colleges and universities
- $86,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2022
To support a convening of the community archives collaborative
- $85,000
Candid · New York, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $85,000
Brooklyn Public Library · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support a national research project to identify and address library policies that may serve to create barriers to accessing books and other library resources
- $85,000
Candid · New York, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $85,000
Center for Curatorial Leadership · New York, NY · 2023
To support a pilot program to nurture the mid-career paths of curators of color in art museums across the united states, in collaboration with the studio museum in harlem
- $82,500
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support partnership with a resource development consultant to prospect self-determined philanthropy models with a focus on black artists and creative practitioners
- $82,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support listening sessions with tribal communities in washington state to better understand their library and technology needs for future pilot projects
- $81,000
Nonprofit Finance Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To support the technical assistance component of the latinx theater initiative
- $77,300
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Fdn · North Adams, MA · 2022
To support two think tanks to establish the initial grounding of the space, and work with will rawls to determine the ongoing advisory structure as well as his role at the organization in the long-term
- $75,000
Callaloo Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the preservation of the callaloo archives
- $75,000
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University · Tallahassee, FL · 2024
To support a design workshop of a sponsored project
- $75,000
Ithaka Harbors · New York, NY · 2024
To support an assessment of publishing models for scholarly monographs in ebook format
- $75,000
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support a sponsored project's musical heritage preservation work
- $75,000
The Roosevelt Institute · New York, NY · 2024
To support an analysis of higher education
- $75,000
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support planning for responsible information workforce development in the humanities
- $75,000
Albertine Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support the night of ideas
- $75,000
Aubin Pictures · New York, NY · 2023
To support production of the film "paint me a rd. Out of here"
- $75,000
Montana State University · Bozeman, MT · 2023
To support the 2023 tribal college librarians institute
- $75,000
Nonprofit New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $75,000
University of Hawaii at Mnoa · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support the international indigenous librarians' forum in 2023 and the development of publicly available white paper based on forum learnings
- $75,000
Candid · New York, NY · 2022
To support general operations
- $75,000
Nonprofit New York · New York, NY · 2022
To support general operations
- $71,250
Just Media · New York, NY · 2024
To support core staff positions
- $70,000
The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support analysis of civil court data in ohio with an equity lens
- $68,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support an upgrade to glosario, an open-source, multilingual glossary for computing terms developed by the carpentries, an inclusive community teaching data and coding skills
- $65,000
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2023
To support the preservation of original source materials on social welfare history and the exploration of networking similar collections for digital scholarship
- $65,000
The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation · Florissant, MO · 2022
To support the construction of the dred scott memorial monument
- $64,000
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To support the museum of broken windows
- $60,307
University of Cambridge · 2023
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
- $60,086
Chicago Opera Theater · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for the vanguard emerging opera composer residency program
- $60,000
Brooklyn Public Library · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support exhibition and public program activities
- $60,000
Entre Film Center · Harlingen, TX · 2024
To support artistic programs and a regional archive
- $60,000
Toni Morrison Society · Avondale Estates, GA · 2024
To support the organization of archival materials and planning for a digital archive
- $60,000
Big Ten Academic Alliance · Champaign, IL · 2022
To support the creation of a collection of backlist open-access ebooks in gender and sexuality studies
- $55,000
Suprseed · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support justen leroy's lay me down in praise
- $50,000
Literary Freedom Project · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support one book one bronx, community-based book discussions in the bronx
- $50,000
Morgan State University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support public exhibitions of place-based research, art, and design projects and community programming
- $50,000
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2024
To support the establishment of khayelitsha art school & rehabilitation centre's shack theatre in the eastern cape
- $50,000
Native Americans in Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2024
To support general operations
- $50,000
Pike School of Art - Mississippi · McComb, MS · 2024
To support increased staff support, equitable salaries, and planning for their site and subsequent cultural plan
- $50,000
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support archival development and storytelling of a sponsored project
- $50,000
The Heritage Management Organization · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support an exhibition of a sponsored project
- $50,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
To support myvote project
- $50,000
Council On the Environment · New York, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $50,000
La Historia Historical Society · El Monte, CA · 2023
To support the hiring of the organization's first full-time community archives manager

