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

$800,000
Scholars at Risk · New York, NY · 2022
To continue support for research and communications capacity, including for free to think, an annual report that documents attacks on academic freedom
$800,000
Springboard for the Arts · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To support a robust network of arts advocacy groups and organizations that serve individual artists and communities
$800,000
Wideman-Davis Dance of New York · Columbia, SC · 2022
To support the expansion of migratuse ataraxia through long-term, community-focused dance residencies in columbia, sc, montgomery, al, and harpersville, al
$795,000
Illinois Arts Alliance · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support creative states coalition staff capacity and convenings for arts advocacy organizations across the united states
$794,000
Producer Hub · New York, NY · 2024
To support visioning, research, and community engagement for a land-based sponsored project
$793,000
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support study and struggle
$791,000
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
To continue support for an inclusive, community-based environmental humanities fellows program
$786,500
Georgia State University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from perimeter college to georgia state university
$786,000
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To support the mapping prejudice project in further community engagement and technology work and in sustainability planning
$785,000
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support a fellowship program for threatened latin american scholars out of the university's latin american and latino studies program, as part of a network within the crossing latinidades consortium at hispanic-servi… read allTo support a fellowship program for threatened latin american scholars out of the university's latin american and latino studies program, as part of a network within the crossing latinidades consortium at hispanic-serving institutions less
$783,000
Fundacin Luis Muoz Marn · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support the puerto rico architectural heritage archive
$780,000
National Park Service · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development of research and studies to strengthen the preservation and interpretation of womens history
$780,000
Centro De Economia Creativa · San Juan, PR · 2022
To support revista etnica
$778,000
Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support movement, an immigrant musician led platform for the amplification and celebration of immigrant music and stories
$777,600
Floating Museum Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support organizational capacity and the expansion of the floating monuments programming series
$775,000
Proteus Fund · Amherst, MA · 2023
To support the visiting room project
$775,000
Create in Chinatown · New York, NY · 2022
To support the "kitchen studio" construction costs, expanded culinary public programs, operation expenses, and increased organizational capacity
$774,000
Community Council of Idaho · Caldwell, ID · 2024
To support the preservation of the farm security administration twin falls labor camp
$774,000
Community Council of Idaho · Caldwell, ID · 2023
To support the preservation of the farm security administration twin falls labor camp
$770,255
Dance Theatre of Harlem · New York, NY · 2022
To support artistic initiatives and capacity building
$770,000
West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
To support reconstruction and preservation of the robeson houses of philadelphia and princeton, as well as increased organizational capacity for collaborative initiatives
$764,338
Dance Theatre of Harlem · New York, NY · 2023
To support artistic initiatives and capacity building
$761,200
The University of Texas at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support an interdisciplinary project focused on birds that will engage students, faculty, & community members in reclaiming environmental knowledge already existing in borderlands indigenous & mexican american commun… read allTo support an interdisciplinary project focused on birds that will engage students, faculty, & community members in reclaiming environmental knowledge already existing in borderlands indigenous & mexican american communities less
$761,200
The University of Texas at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2023
To support a bird-focused project to engage students, faculty, & the community in reclaiming environmental knowledge; train students in transdisciplinary & community-based research methods; create public access to local… read allTo support a bird-focused project to engage students, faculty, & the community in reclaiming environmental knowledge; train students in transdisciplinary & community-based research methods; create public access to local environmental justice programs less
$758,500
Virginia Commonwealth University · Richmond, VA · 2022
To continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between virginia commonwealth university and brightpoint and j. Sargeant reynolds community colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completi… read allTo continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between virginia commonwealth university and brightpoint and j. Sargeant reynolds community colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions less
$755,000
Wideman-Davis Dance of New York · Columbia, SC · 2023
To support the expansion of migratuse ataraxia through long-term, community-focused dance residencies in columbia, sc, montgomery, al, and harpersville, al
$752,500
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support a fellowship for system-impacted writers, in partnership with the art for justice fund
$752,500
Center for Economic Research & Social Change · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support a fellowship for system-impacted writers, in partnership with the art for justice fund
$752,100
Scalawag · Durham, NC · 2024
To support drapetomania
$752,000
Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024
To support archival maintenance, research, operations and website development for a sponsored project
$751,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support zealous's storytelling initiatives
$750,000
A Blade of Grass Fund · Long Island City, NY · 2024
To support staff capacity and programs for an artist-governed organization
$750,000
Antenna · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support increased organizational and programmatic capacity
$750,000
Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design · Providence, RI · 2024
To continue support to implement strategic plans, leadership development and convenings, and curriculum opportunities for participating art colleges
$750,000
Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2024
To continue support for higher education in prison and degree development programs
$750,000
Bidoun Projects · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support general operations
$750,000
Blackspace Urbanist Collective · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support collective leadership and capacity building for a national accelerator model
$750,000
Blackstar Projects · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To continue support for operational costs
$750,000
Carleton College · Northfield, MN · 2024
To support a humanities for all times project
$750,000
Community Capital Fund · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support historic preservation, exhibition design, and construction of a sponsored project
$750,000
Depaul University · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the continuation of the humanitiesx program
$750,000
Dominican University · River Forest, IL · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$750,000
Educopia Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support capacity building of a sponsored project
$750,000
Gateways Music Festival · Rochester, NY · 2024
To support the incoming president and artistic directors vision
$750,000
Gaylesbianbisexualtransgender Historicalsociety · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support interdisciplinary research
$750,000
Hamilton College · Clinton, NY · 2024
To support the institute for american indian and indigenous studies
$750,000
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2024
To support a humanities for all times project
$750,000
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support the expansion of several projects at the intersection of data and black digital humanities
$750,000
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a succession plan designed to preserve the history, impact, and legacy of the company
$750,000
Mississippi Museum of Art · Jackson, MS · 2024
To continue to support the museums role as academic hub among four colleges and universities in jackson, mississippi
$750,000
Modern Language Association of America · New York, NY · 2024
To support programming to recruit and retain underserved students within language and literature programs
$750,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To support efforts across the humanities, libraries, and local community organizations in boston to create a digital and analog local history platform for citizen-archivists
$750,000
Performance Space 122 · New York, NY · 2024
To support general operations
$750,000
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art · Portland, OR · 2024
To support general operations
$750,000
Public Religion Research Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue support for the religion and renewing democracy initiative
$750,000
Rhizome Communications · New York, NY · 2024
To support an overhaul of a publicly accessible archive of digital art
$750,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To support research, community engagement, and public installations commemorating im/migrant stories
$750,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024
To continue support for the price humanities undergraduate research scholars program
$750,000
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey at Newark · Newark, NJ · 2024
To continue support for the nj-step program
$750,000
San Francisco State University · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the development of critical pacific islands and oceania studies pedagogy and related collaborations
$750,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To support research and conservation of the african american photography collection
$750,000
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024
To support a sponsored project with a disability justice framework across operations and external programs, and increase trainings to art organizations
$750,000
St Joseph'S Historic Foundation · Durham, NC · 2024
To continue support for operations and organizational capacity building
$750,000
Sundance Institute · Park City, UT · 2024
To continue support for indigenous storytelling through the indigenous program
$750,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
To support the development of latinx archives
$750,000
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support general operations
$750,000
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley · Edinburg, TX · 2024
To support course development in mexican american and ethnic studies
$750,000
University of California at Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To support the development of an interdisciplinary graduate curriculum
$750,000
University of California at Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
$750,000
University of California at Merced · Merced, CA · 2024
To support the university's center for the humanities
$750,000
University of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2024
To support the development of a liberal arts-focused prison education coalition
$750,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions
$750,000
University of Puerto Rico at Ro Piedras · San Juan, PR · 2024
To support internships for humanities majors
$750,000
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible
$750,000
Women'S Center for Creative Work · Glendale, CA · 2024
To continue support of a shared leadership model
$750,000
Xavier University of Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support a humanities for all times project
$750,000
A Blade of Grass Fund · Long Island City, NY · 2023
To support staff capacity and programs for an artist-governed organization
$750,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support this vital organization during a longtime leadership transition
$750,000
American University · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the humanities truck project, an initiative using a customized truck as a mobile platform for collecting, exhibiting, preserving, & expanding dialogue around the humanities, & for teaching grad students in th… read allTo support the humanities truck project, an initiative using a customized truck as a mobile platform for collecting, exhibiting, preserving, & expanding dialogue around the humanities, & for teaching grad students in the public history program less
$750,000
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2023
To continue support for readying the museum, a coalition of museum workers and artists organizing to address racial inequities in the museum field
$750,000
Artequity Community · Pasadena, CA · 2023
To support general operations
$750,000
Associated Colleges of the Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions
$750,000
Associated Colleges of the South · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions
$750,000
Big Ten Academic Alliance · Champaign, IL · 2023
To support academic leadership fellowships
$750,000
Carleton College · Northfield, MN · 2023
To support a humanities for all times project
$750,000
Chaminade University of Honolulu · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed higher education in prison program
$750,000
City College of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support the development of a multidisciplinary incubator focused on community-based partnerships and projects that engage built environment design and the humanities through a social justice lens
$750,000
Code for Science & Society · Portland, OR · 2023
To support invest in open infrastructure in the further development of the catalog of open infrastructure services and to test models and strategies for sustaining open infrastructure
$750,000
Educopia Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support the implementation of a strategic rd.map for capacity building and financial sustainability for cita press, publisher of public domain books in english and spanish written by women authors
$750,000
Florida International University · Miami, FL · 2023
To support the creation of a fellowship for threatened scholars from cuba based out of the universitys cuban research institute, as part of a network within the crossing latinidades consortium at hispanic-serving instit… read allTo support the creation of a fellowship for threatened scholars from cuba based out of the universitys cuban research institute, as part of a network within the crossing latinidades consortium at hispanic-serving institutions less
$750,000
Forward Impact · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support represent justice's ambassadors program
$750,000
Hamilton College · Clinton, NY · 2023
To support the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions of the new york six liberal arts consortium
$750,000
Haverford College · Haverford, PA · 2023
To support a humanities for all times project
$750,000
Howard 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
$750,000
Internet Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support a final phase of community webs, a cohort-based professional training program in web archiving for public libraries
$750,000
John Jay College of Criminal Justice · New York, NY · 2023
To continue to support the expansion of educational and reentry initiatives for current and formerly incarcerated students
$750,000
La Semilla Food Center · Anthony, NM · 2023
To support the chihuahuan desert cultural fellowship and storymapping agroecology in the chihuahuan desert programs
$750,000
Latino Theater Company · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support a succession plan designed to preserve the history, impact, and legacy of the company
$750,000
Loyola University New Orleans · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To support a research base for emerging statewide efforts to expand and improve access to higher education among incarcerated people in louisiana
$750,000
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation · North Adams, MA · 2023
To support will rawls and a new artist- and scholar-run space focusing on black contemporary arts, aesthetics, and their relations in north adams and williamstown, massachusetts