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
- $900,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support operating expenses and programmatic costs to continue ongoing partnerships and seed new program areas for a sponsored project
- $900,000
Climate Museum · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for fellowships and programming related to environmental justice
- $900,000
Edward Charles Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
To continue support for a sponsored project with the development of collaborative partnerships and survey administration
- $900,000
From Prison Cells To Phd · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support the neighborhood access program
- $900,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2024
To continue support for pbs news hours canvas
- $900,000
Pangea World Theater · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To continue support for the national institute for directing and ensemble creation and general operating support
- $900,000
Storefront for Art & Architecture · New York, NY · 2024
To support increased staff salaries, hire communications and development personnel, and seed new public programs
- $900,000
Asian Arts Initiative · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support the launch of an asian american music initiative
- $900,000
Fresh Meat Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support ongoing capacity building and transgender and gender-nonconforming leadership and creativity
- $900,000
Hampton University · Hampton, VA · 2023
To support preservation assessment work and capital improvements for the university museum and clarke hall, the restoration of the charles white mural, and related programming
- $900,000
Mozilla Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support seeding justice-minded humanities approaches to ethical computing in college and university curricula through an interdisciplinary phase two of the responsible computer science challenge
- $900,000
New Dance Theatre · Denver, CO · 2023
To support capacity building and general operations
- $900,000
Richmond Public Library · Richmond, VA · 2023
To support the activities of the memory lab at richmond public library
- $900,000
Sozo Impact · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support capacity building and programmatic expansion
- $900,000
The Silk Rd Project · Boston, MA · 2023
To support innovative artistic community, capacity building, and plans to develop the american silkrd.
- $900,000
University of Guam · Mangilao, GU · 2023
To support a new center to house chamoru studies research and archives, serve as a connection between the community and the academy, and provide pathways for local community college and bachelor's students to pursue hig… read allTo support a new center to house chamoru studies research and archives, serve as a connection between the community and the academy, and provide pathways for local community college and bachelor's students to pursue higher degrees in chamoru studies less
- $900,000
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
To provide a final round of support for a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the university of cincinnati college-conservatory of music
- $900,000
Coalfield Development Corporation · Huntington, WV · 2022
To support restoration work at the mine wars museum and capital improvements and expanded programming at the west edge factory including a new black box theater and artist residency program
- $900,000
Logan Square Neighborhood Association · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support built elements of placekeeping along the armitage corridor, supplies and program costs, programming "pop up" events, and cultural performances and workshops
- $900,000
Project Pericles · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for a faculty and course development program that integrates voter education, civic engagement, and community-based learning into the humanities curriculum of colleges and universities
- $900,000
University of North Texas · Denton, TX · 2022
To support the further development of a trust for the stewardship of usage data about open-access monographs
- $894,000
University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023
To support faculty and student scholarship and the creation of new courses that deploy speculative methods and center the histories of people of color to envision more just environments and ecologies
- $884,500
Anchorage Park Foundation · Anchorage, AK · 2023
To support the indigenous place names project, a movement to amplify anchorages indigenous identity along the municipality of anchorage's public trail system
- $875,000
Fundacin Puertorriquea De Las Humanidades · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support general operations
- $875,000
Producer Hub · New York, NY · 2024
To support art installation and exhibition of a sponsored project
- $875,000
St Croix Foundation for Community Development · Christiansted, VI · 2024
To support planning and design for the reconstruction of the alexander theater and a cultural heritage regranting program
- $875,000
The Descendants Project · Vacherie, LA · 2024
To support planning, interpretation, and implementation for a museum and cultural center at the 1811 kid ory house
- $875,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support the washington prison history project
- $875,000
First Peoples Fund · Rapid City, SD · 2023
To continue support for the native performing arts fellowship program and programming at oglala lakota artspace
- $875,000
Fundacin Puertorriquea De Las Humanidades · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support general operations
- $875,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2023
To support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for islamicate digital humanities
- $875,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2022
To support staff as it establishes a set of long-term practices for an organizing space for socially-engaged artists with the ultimate goals of sharing its cooperative asset ownership and programmatic model to a wider p… read allTo support staff as it establishes a set of long-term practices for an organizing space for socially-engaged artists with the ultimate goals of sharing its cooperative asset ownership and programmatic model to a wider public less
- $875,000
New England Conservatory of Music · Boston, MA · 2022
To provide a final round of support to the boston bridge to equity and achievement in music (beam) initiative
- $875,000
University of Maryland at College Park · College Park, MD · 2022
To support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for islamicate digital humanities
- $868,500
Institute for Citizens and Scholars · Princeton, NJ · 2023
To continue support for the creation of pathways for scholars and higher education leaders who are making their fields and campuses more engaged and inclusive
- $864,000
Hers-Higher Education Resource Services · Denver, CO · 2024
To support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks
- $854,200
Charm City Cultural Cultivation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support capacity building for the last resort artist retreat, a program of charm city cultural cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees
- $854,200
Maryland Art Place · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support capacity building for the last resort artist retreat, a program of charm city cultural cultivation, with staff costs, fundraising consulting capacities, facilities management and professional fees
- $850,000
Betti Ono Foundation · Emeryville, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $850,000
Brandywine Workshop and Archives · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support general operations
- $850,000
Defending American Values Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024
To support an initiative to strengthen higher education
- $850,000
Kankouran West African Dance Co · Washington, DC · 2024
To support capacity building and general operations
- $850,000
Kenkeleba House · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for the collection and working toward kenkeleba museum
- $850,000
Recess Activities · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $850,000
Self-Help Graphics and Arts · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $850,000
The Futuro Media Group · New York, NY · 2024
To support the la brega, suave, and all-stars: the fania story podcasts
- $850,000
The Philadelphia Dance Company · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To continue support for capacity building
- $850,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
- $850,000
University of Wyoming · Laramie, WY · 2024
To support a living public archive of wyoming stories
- $850,000
Brandywine Workshop and Archives · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support general operations
- $850,000
Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023
To support the preservation of the historic jewel theater and related community engagement and programming
- $850,000
Kankouran West African Dance Co · Washington, DC · 2023
To support capacity building and general operations
- $850,000
Recess Activities · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support general operations
- $850,000
Self-Help Graphics and Arts · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support general operations
- $850,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
To continue to support the cornell prison education program
- $850,000
Digital Public Library of America · Boston, MA · 2022
To support the development of new models for advancing racial justice in the archival field
- $850,000
Harlem Grown · New York, NY · 2022
To support the marcus garvey park culture, creativity, & care initiative
- $850,000
Hunter College · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for an undergraduate program for advanced research in the public humanities emphasizing social justice themes
- $850,000
Nc Agricultural & Technical State University · Greensboro, NC · 2022
To support the establishment of a center for social justice that builds on the history and legacy of the institution's connection to the "greensboro four"
- $838,500
The International Association of Blacks in Dance · Washington, DC · 2022
To support a second cohort through the foundation's comprehensive organizational health initiative
- $835,000
Movement Research · New York, NY · 2022
To support the disability dance field through the access, movement, play residency program designed by and for disabled dance artists
- $830,000
Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2024
To continue support for howlround programming and administration of the national playwright residency program
- $830,000
Emerson College · Boston, MA · 2023
To continue support for howlround programming and administration of the national playwright residency program
- $830,000
The National Public Housing Museum · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the design, construction, and programming of the hatch family apartment exhibit and stipends and staffing for the artist as instigator project
- $826,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
To support a collaborative national network of scholars, culture workers, and organizers who bring intersectional disability justice approaches to the study of chronic illness
- $825,000
Joyce Theater Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for organizational capacity and structuring for a contemporary dance company, a sponsored project
- $822,000
American Philosophical Society · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To continue support for the native american scholars initiative
- $817,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
To support an integrative, interdisciplinary, and reparative approach to analyzing the role that data, computation, and archives play in black life
- $811,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To support the jailhouse lawyers initiative's flashlights project
- $810,000
Democracy at Work Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support guilded staff capacity and guaranteed payment program
- $810,000
Five Colleges Incorporated · Amherst, MA · 2022
To support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity
- $802,000
The University of British Columbia · 2022
To support the further development of, and sustainability planning for, ravenspace, a platform for the publication of multimedia books in native american and indigenous studies
- $800,000
Alaska Native Heritage Center · Anchorage, AK · 2024
To support general operations
- $800,000
American Composers Orchestra · New York, NY · 2024
To support modeling social practice within orchestras
- $800,000
Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $800,000
Center for Curatorial Leadership · New York, NY · 2024
To support curatorial leadership programs and organizational capacity
- $800,000
Haser · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support the core project in alliance with alianza cultural para emergencias de puerto rico
- $800,000
Power of Preservation Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support staffing, partner engagement, and programming in north america and africa of a sponsored project
- $800,000
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the digitization of museum collections
- $800,000
Black Arts Movement and Business District Community Development Corporation · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support capacity building for member organizations of the cultural reforestation project in oakland
- $800,000
Fisk University · Nashville, TN · 2023
To support implementation of a digital infrastructure, personnel, and digitization plan for the julius rosenwald fund collection and enable greater access to collection materials
- $800,000
King County Library System · Issaquah, WA · 2023
To support the activities of the memory lab at king county library system
- $800,000
Rhodes College · Memphis, TN · 2023
To support the development of an institute that translates arts and humanities research, teaching, and creative expression into social action
- $800,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2023
To support pathways to the humanities for undergraduates through childhood studies at the rutgers-camden campus, while deepening the fields engagement with questions of race and normativity
- $800,000
Springboard for the Arts · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
To support a robust network of arts advocacy groups and organizations that serve individual artists and communities
- $800,000
St Louis Civic Tech and Data Collaborative · St Louis, MO · 2023
To support the expansion, scaling, and widespread adoption of an open-source learning management system for prison education programs in the united states
- $800,000
The International Association of Blacks in Dance · Washington, DC · 2023
To support a second cohort through the foundation's comprehensive organizational health initiative
- $800,000
The Map Fund · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support for map fund core grant and spa program
- $800,000
The New School · New York, NY · 2023
To support phase ii improvements to safeguard the new school's orozco mural room
- $800,000
The Office Performing Arts Film · New York, NY · 2023
To support capacity building
- $800,000
University of Nevada at Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2023
To support place-based curricular development and collaborative public scholarship with las vegas's aapi communities
- $800,000
Axis Dance Company · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To support the creative potential of disabled dance
- $800,000
Betti Ono Foundation · Emeryville, CA · 2022
To support capacity building for member organizations of the cultural reforestation project in oakland
- $800,000
Brooklyn Public Library · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support the expansion of library-based services and programs for those reentering society post-incarceration
- $800,000
Design Trust for Public Space · New York, NY · 2022
To support outdoor staging in public space for arts and cultural organizations in new york city
- $800,000
Dickinson College · Carlisle, PA · 2022
To support the development of a program of study in native american studies and advance the national conversation on the indigenous boarding school experience with a focus on the history of the carlisle indian industria… read allTo support the development of a program of study in native american studies and advance the national conversation on the indigenous boarding school experience with a focus on the history of the carlisle indian industrial school less
- $800,000
Fisk University · Nashville, TN · 2022
To support implementation of a digital infrastructure, personnel, and digitization plan for the julius rosenwald fund collection and enable greater access to collection materials
- $800,000
Marymount Manhattan College · New York, NY · 2022
To continue to support prison education programs at the bedford hills and taconic correctional facilities for women
- $800,000
North Carolina Freedom Monument Project · Raleigh, NC · 2022
To support the construction of the north carolina freedom park and beacon of freedom
- $800,000
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice · Durham, NC · 2022
To support the renovation of the landmark pauli murray home, expanded organizational capacity and facilities, and inaugural exhibits

