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
- $619,000
Hunter College · New York, NY · 2022
To support scholarly study groups between academics from the university of puerto rico and puerto rican scholars at the center for puerto rican studies
- $617,500
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support a series of projects and activities to address the varied issues facing critics of color
- $617,000
Knox College · Galesburg, IL · 2022
To support a humanities for all times project
- $615,000
Daylight Community Arts Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support dikan centers conservation and cultural heritage center, capital project planning, and organizational development
- $611,500
California State University at Fullerton · Fullerton, CA · 2023
To support the creation of humanities-orientated pathways through chicana/o studies building on the california area f, ethnic studies requirement
- $611,500
California State University at Fullerton · Fullerton, CA · 2022
To support the creation of humanities-orientated pathways through chicana/o studies building on the california area f, ethnic studies requirement
- $610,000
Broad Community Connections · New Orleans, LA · 2024
To support the design and construction of andr cailloux park and public programming including community-focused heritage and culture events
- $605,000
Portlight Strategies · Charleston, SC · 2022
To support i wanna be with you everywhere, including to expand and continue a festival of, by, and for disabled artists and writers, and creating more studio time, research, and events, as well as compensating disabled … read allTo support i wanna be with you everywhere, including to expand and continue a festival of, by, and for disabled artists and writers, and creating more studio time, research, and events, as well as compensating disabled organizers less
- $603,500
Lake Forest College · Lake Forest, IL · 2024
To support a humanities for all times project
- $603,500
Lake Forest College · Lake Forest, IL · 2023
To support a humanities for all times project
- $603,500
Morehouse College · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To support the development of an institute for black masculinities studies
- $600,000
1882 Project Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support organizational development, planning, and programming
- $600,000
Anchorage Museum Association · Anchorage, AK · 2024
To continue support for contemporary indigenous art and culture and climate justice programs
- $600,000
Anyone Can Fly Foundation · Englewood, NJ · 2024
To support strategic planning, capacity building, archival management, and the development of educational and public programs
- $600,000
Ballet Hispanico of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for the latine dance institute
- $600,000
Big Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support research, planning, and pilot programming at the emmett till and mamie till-mobley house museum
- $600,000
Borderlands Theater Teatro Fronterizo · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for research clusters, curriculum development, and co-teaching initiatives that integrate the humanities into multidisciplinary dialogue around science and technology questions of societal importance
- $600,000
Culture Mill · Saxapahaw, NC · 2024
To support operational costs and strategic research related to ongoing facility needs
- $600,000
Dallas Black Dance Theatre · Dallas, TX · 2024
To continue to support capacity building
- $600,000
Dance Iquail · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music · Boonville, CA · 2024
To continue to support the training, mentorship, and arts citizenship education for emerging composers
- $600,000
Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support a fellowship program of a sponsored project
- $600,000
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Hillman Grad Foundation · Encino, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Jacob'S Pillow Dance Festival · Becket, MA · 2024
To continue support for the pillow lab residency program
- $600,000
Leeway Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To support equitable succession planning
- $600,000
Legal Services Corporation · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue support for further development of the civil court data initiative
- $600,000
Louis Armstrong House Museum · Corona, NY · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Marian and Edward Macdowell · Peterborough, NH · 2024
To support general operations
- $600,000
Mississippi Center for Cultural Production · Utica, MS · 2024
To continue support for the sipp culture rural performance/production lab
- $600,000
Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024
To continue support for a sponsored project for work led by artists and culture-bearers
- $600,000
Museum Hue · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To continue support of capacity building efforts
- $600,000
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland, CA · 2024
To continue support for the knowledge management infrastructure initiative
- $600,000
Participant · New York, NY · 2024
To support a coalition of dance and performance, music and sound, film and media arts, literature, and visual arts organizations
- $600,000
Shorefront Nfp · Evanston, IL · 2024
To support organizational capacity building
- $600,000
Sixty Inches From Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support networks of artists, writers, and archivists in the midwest through the midwest satellites regional relationship-building program and the sixty collective alternative benefits program
- $600,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue support for an international support program for cultural heritage emergency preparedness and response
- $600,000
Stepafrika USA · Washington, DC · 2024
To support capacity building and general operations
- $600,000
Texas After Violence Project · Austin, TX · 2024
To support planning for the community archives collaborative
- $600,000
The Apollo Theater Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support work of executive director
- $600,000
The Classical Theatre of Harlem · New York, NY · 2024
To support capacity building and sustainability
- $600,000
The Flea Theater · New York, NY · 2024
To support the launch of a new shared leadership structure with resident theater makers and the launch of a new community building project
- $600,000
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support capacity towards archiving and digitizing the museums collection and history
- $600,000
The Tank Ltd · New York, NY · 2024
To support okwui okpokwasili and peter born of sweat variant with continued archival work and planning for a multi-year operations and production structure
- $600,000
The Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support a research project
- $600,000
Under the Radar Festival · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the transition of artistic leadership
- $600,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
- $600,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To support a faculty fellowship program that facilitates student engagement with us-mexico borderlands research
- $600,000
University of New Haven · West Haven, CT · 2024
To continue to support a degree-granting partnership between prison education initiatives
- $600,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
To support capacity and programming at the engine for art, democracy, and justice
- $600,000
Vision Into Arts Presents · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support capacity building and the development of music and arts projects
- $600,000
Warm Cookies of the Revolution · Denver, CO · 2024
To support future town programming, artist fees, and a documentation project
- $600,000
African Digital Heritage Foundation · 2023
To support open restitution africa which seek to open access to information on the restitution of african material culture and human ancestors, to empower all stakeholders involved to make knowledge-based decisions
- $600,000
Beth Morrison Projects · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support the prototype: opera/theatre/now festival
- $600,000
Coalfield Development Corporation · Huntington, WV · 2023
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
- $600,000
Community Arts Stabilization Trust · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support testing new ideas in creative place making and belonging for artists
- $600,000
Contra-Tiempo · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support capacity building and a new, shared leadership-structure
- $600,000
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support capacity building for member organizations of the cultural reforestation project in oakland
- $600,000
Efforts of Grace · New Orleans, LA · 2023
To continue support for the ash racial justice and healing initiative
- $600,000
Foundation Earth · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the onkyayun oheki project with a focus on capacity building as well as food and cultural heritage programs
- $600,000
Friends of Minidoka · Twin Falls, ID · 2023
To support the development of virtual walking tours related to sites of japanese american incarceration in the pacific northwest
- $600,000
Fundacin Comunitaria De Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2023
To support hurricane fiona response in puerto rico
- $600,000
Hispanic Federation · New York, NY · 2023
To support hurricane fiona response in puerto rico
- $600,000
Humanities New York · New York, NY · 2023
To support the post-incarceration public humanities partnership grant program
- $600,000
Institute for Afrourbanism · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the planning and design work for the dreamstead project and a humanities-focused community fellowship program
- $600,000
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning · Jamaica, NY · 2023
To support capacity building and integration of the building equity initiative into all operations and its organizational structure
- $600,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
To support the preservation, conservation, research and cataloging of the james van der zee archive
- $600,000
Mississippi Museum of Art · Jackson, MS · 2023
To support the center for art and public exchange and the community components of railwaysa national artist-led and community-dr.n project to accompany the upcoming exhibition on the great migration
- $600,000
Northstar Church of the Arts · Durham, NC · 2023
To support general operations
- $600,000
Portland Center Stage · Portland, OR · 2023
To support transformative leadership within the american theater
- $600,000
Prx · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To support the ear hustle podcast
- $600,000
Rhode Island Historical Society · Providence, RI · 2023
To support the development of a citywide inventory of commemorative works and the commissioning of temporary public art projects in partnership with the city of providence department of art, culture + tourism
- $600,000
Sixty Inches From Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support networks of artists, writers, and archivists in the midwest through the midwest satellites regional relationship-building program and the sixty collective alternative benefits program
- $600,000
Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
To continue support for an international support program for cultural heritage emergency preparedness and response
- $600,000
The Flea Theater · New York, NY · 2023
To support the launch of a new shared leadership structure with resident theater makers and the launch of a new community building project
- $600,000
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To continue support for social practice artists and faculty across the cuny system
- $600,000
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023
To support a faculty fellowship program that facilitates student engagement with us-mexico borderlands research
- $600,000
University of California at Merced · Merced, CA · 2023
To continue support for an undergraduate research program in the humanities and related fields for underrepresented students and others interested in pursuing scholarly careers
- $600,000
Ywca Southern Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2023
To support construction costs for the sosa-carrillo-frmont house including new spaces for presentations and exhibits, improved accessibility, and organizational capacity for descendientes del presidio de tucson
- $600,000
Blackstar Projects · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
To support general operating expenses as well as programs with a focus on expanding the reach of various mentorship seminars and opportunities
- $600,000
Chicago Sinfonietta · Chicago, IL · 2022
To support the activation of community partnerships
- $600,000
Empowerment Works · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022
To support empowerment avenue
- $600,000
Humanities New York · New York, NY · 2022
To support the post-incarceration public humanities partnership grant program
- $600,000
Illinois Humanities Council · Chicago, IL · 2022
To continue support for envisioning justice
- $600,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To support marking time
- $600,000
Pratt Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
To support the further development of the digital preservation outreach and education network
- $600,000
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum · Skillman, NJ · 2022
To support increased organizational capacity, historical interpretation of sites, and cultural education programming
- $600,000
The Industry Productions · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support visionary artists in their desire to combine a long-enduring art form and experimental technologies into contemporary narratives on behalf of a broadly diverse public
- $600,000
The Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History & Comm · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
To support organizational capacity, a planning and feasibility study, and related public cultural heritage programming
- $595,000
Aspiration · San Francisco, CA · 2023
To support community rebuilding for ketida (formerly: editoria), a digital-first monograph publishing platform
- $594,500
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2022
To support intersectional studies
- $592,500
Skidmore College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2022
To support a humanities for all times project
- $591,500
American Indian Higher Education Consortium · Alexandria, VA · 2022
To support the native language program to implement a common native language preservation strategy with a focus on capacity building at 37 tribal colleges
- $590,000
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support the museo del westside renovations, a community cultural historian, and organizational capacity
- $590,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To support graduate student internships in community-based archives
- $587,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
To support accessibility of digital educational resources for students with disabilities
- $584,000
New-York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for the center for womens history
- $580,000
Associated Colleges of the Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2024
To continue support for the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions
- $575,000
The Great Questions Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
To support humanities-based general education programming and faculty fellowships at community colleges

