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Richard King Mellon Foundation: all 1,140 grants

Largest first · $467.4M across 2021–2024 · back to the overview

$725,000
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To enhance public green spaces and trails through land conservation, tree planting, site restoration, and community engagement in westmoreland county
$700,000
Carnegie Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To build a new avian research facility to house an enhanced research program and expand public programming
$680,000
Community College of Allegheny County Education Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward the reinventing community approaches advanced manufacturing pilot program
$675,000
Catalyst Connection · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To create a sector-based partnership with the manufacturing apprenticeship collaborative
$651,000
Ligonier Borough · Ligonier, PA · 2024
To update and enhance the town hall
$637,000
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University the · Redwood City, CA · 2022
Toward 18-month support to determine if and how implementing nature prescriptions can increase time in nature and improve health to yield an actionable understanding of the nature-health connection
$635,000
STEM Coding Lab · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
For an in-school program and virtual curriculum expansion, operations staff, curation of ai curriculum, and launch of expanded university partnerships
$625,000
Susquehanna University · Selinsgrove, PA · 2022
Toward two-year support for collaborative research for effective watershed restoration, conservation, and undergraduate academic and professional development in ecology
$600,000
Allegheny Land Trust · Sewickley, PA · 2023
To acquire properties in the robinson run watershed, connecting broader parts of an important regional greenway
$600,000
Mutual Aid Ambulance Service · Greensburg, PA · 2023
To purchase ambulance equipment and computers for first responders
$592,000
Susquehanna University · Selinsgrove, PA · 2024
Toward support of the freshwater research institute
$582,000
Salem Township Volunteer Fire Company #2 · Forbes Road, PA · 2024
To improve training for volunteer fire fighters in westmoreland county
$575,000
Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2024
Toward support of project argyle
$570,000
One Mind · Rutherford, CA · 2024
To support an employer-led coalition in southwestern pennsylvania that will collaborate to improve the mental health of the local workforce and broader community
$550,000
Heart of the Rockies Initiative · Missoula, MT · 2024
To scale durable conservation of private lands in the central rocky mountain region while connecting habitat
$550,000
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To restore aquatic and forest habitat in central appalachia
$550,000
Foundation for Sustainable Forests · Spartansburg, PA · 2023
To purchase priority forested lands in pennsylvania's french creek watershed for conservation, habitat stewardship via ecological forestry, and outreach
$540,000
Texas a&M University-Kingsville · Kingsville, TX · 2024
To create a wildlife health reporting pipeline to facilitate spatial epidemiological analyses of chronic wasting disease for better informed management strategies
$530,000
Allegheny Intermediate Unit · Homestead, PA · 2022
Toward 18-month support for corporate immersion experiences, action planning, and professional learning within stem+c to enhance teachers instructional practices to prepare students for stem+c in-demand careers
$515,000
Allegheny Intermediate Unit · Homestead, PA · 2023
Toward 18-month support to expand services to meet the needs of children and families experiencing trauma in four new school districts
$506,000
Allegheny Conference On Community Development · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward continued support for business investment and job creation
$506,000
Allegheny Conference On Community Development · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To support business investment, job creation, and to lead efforts to attract and retain high-demand talent in the region
$506,000
Allegheny Conference On Community Development · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To address the economic opportunity gap in the region by attracting and retaining workforce talent in jobs that are in high demand
$506,000
Allegheny Conference On Community Development · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To support regional efforts to retain startup businesses, attract and support remote workers, and retain college graduates
$500,000
A Schools Pittsburgh'S Community Alliance for Public Education · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To increase student attendance and improve students academic outcomes
$500,000
Aspinwall Riverfront Park · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To activate a new expanded park space and upgrade current park facilities
$500,000
Better Block Foundation · Ewing, TX · 2024
To complete four creative placemaking projects in allegheny and westmoreland counties
$500,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations and programs
$500,000
Brother'S Brother Foundation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To assist those impacted by hurricanes helene and milton
$500,000
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Children'S Museum of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To redesign the museums backyard exhibit and to plan for a new outdoor campus experience
$500,000
Creating Pittsburgh Tomorrow · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To attract, retain and engage young leaders in pittsburgh
$500,000
Frick Art & Historical Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To expand audiences and forge and strengthen regional partnerships
$500,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2024
To support the caregivers documentary film
$500,000
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2024
Toward production of the documentary, ken burns presents hiding in plain sight: adult mental illness
$500,000
Headwaters Charitable Trust · Curwensville, PA · 2024
To complete 19 state highway road crossings in clarion, forest, elk and mckean counties
$500,000
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$500,000
International League of Conservation Photographers · Arlington, VA · 2024
Toward production of an imax film that inspires audiences to engage in conservation of the american south
$500,000
Kidsvoice · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To remove roadblocks to employment, housing, and health for foster youth to transition successfully to independent living
$500,000
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To develop and implement a variety of environmental education programs
$500,000
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Arlington, VA · 2024
To develop and implement regional strategies for investing in conservation and the well-being of appalachian communities
$500,000
Westmoreland Museum of Art · Greensburg, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$500,000
A Schools Pittsburgh'S Community Alliance for Public Education · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To coordinate resources to develop and implement evidence-based interventions that improve student attendance and academic attainment
$500,000
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations
$500,000
East Liberty Family Health Care Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Foundation for California University of Pennsylvania · California, PA · 2023
To develop plans, permits, and on-the-ground implementation of stream restoration and water-quality improvement projects in western pennsylvania
$500,000
Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Alexandria, PA · 2023
To implement restoration projects in the geographies of the western pennsylvania business plan for healthy forests and freshwater habitats that improve habitat and biodiversity while creating economic opportunities
$500,000
Frick Art & Historical Center the · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To expand audiences and forge and strengthen regional partnerships through inclusive exhibitions, inviting programming, and targeted marketing
$500,000
Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023
To support relief efforts in maui
$500,000
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Kiskiminetas Springs School the · Saltsburg, PA · 2023
To support the scholarship program
$500,000
Nantucket Conservation Foundation · Nantucket, MA · 2023
To restore approximately 40 acres of former cranberry bog to naturally functioning wetlands
$500,000
National Aviary Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To save birds from extinction with a multi-pronged, sustainable, and buildable approach
$500,000
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To attract new, young audiences and engage new and existing subscribers
$500,000
Pittsburgh Opera · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To build audience engagement
$500,000
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation the · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward an initiative to build the downtown theater community
$500,000
Pittsburgh Symphony · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations and to revitalize audience engagement
$500,000
Regional Trail Corporation · West Newton, PA · 2023
To address trail safety emergencies in communities within allegheny and westmoreland counties, primarily along the monongahela and youghiogheny rivers
$500,000
Westmoreland Museum of Art · Greensburg, PA · 2023
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Armstrong Trails · Kittanning, PA · 2022
To construct decking/railing on the kiski bridge to open the trail for bike and pedestrian use, closing an important gap in the regional trail network
$500,000
Conservation Fund the · Arlington, VA · 2022
To develop tools and implement successful regional strategies for investing in rural futures by activating the natural resource economy around important working forests
$500,000
Construction Junction · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Toward two-year support to build a supply chain for urban wood aggregated from deconstructed buildings and street trees to create jobs and divert waste from landfills
$500,000
Frick Art & Historical Center the · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Toward support of operations to continue exhibitions, programing, convenings, and communications to draw new and returning audiences
$500,000
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Land Trust Alliance · Washington, DC · 2022
To motivate millions of conservation-concerned americans to get outdoors and engage in land conservation through local land trusts
$500,000
Macgillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation · Laguna Beach, CA · 2022
To produce medical marvels, and screen the film at the carnegie science center and provide educational programming to youth
$500,000
Phoebe Foundation · Albany, GA · 2022
To expand the neonatal intensive care unit to address infant mortality
$500,000
Ruffed Grouse Society of America · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To implement business plans and accomplish forest stewardship, dynamic forest restoration, and continued innovation
$500,000
Thrill Mill · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Toward operational support to increase the success of pittsburgh start-ups and for the pittsburgh region to be a destination of choice for talent, companies, and investment
$500,000
Twin Cities Public Television · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
To produce a primetime pbs series and related online/social media content that explores and deepens americans relationships with the outdoors
$500,000
Westmoreland Museum of Art · Greensburg, PA · 2022
Toward support of operations
$500,000
African American Cultural Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To produce a high-quality documentary on the tragedy of infant mortality in the u.s.; its disparate impacts in black communities; and the solutions arising in pittsburgh
$500,000
Aspinwall Riverfront Park · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To improve a newly expanded riverfront park and create an off-road trail to be enjoyed by the public, improve community connectivity, public health, and the environment
$500,000
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Toward support of operations
$500,000
Keystone Elk Country Alliance · Benezette, PA · 2021
Toward two-year support to expand elk country visitor center facilities to increase visitation and conservation education capacity to create economic development opportunities at the visitor center and across the pa wil… read allToward two-year support to expand elk country visitor center facilities to increase visitation and conservation education capacity to create economic development opportunities at the visitor center and across the pa wilds region less
$500,000
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021
To restore forest and aquatic habitat within the seven rkmf focal geographies through a competitive grant program which addresses priorities identified in the foundation's new strategic plan
$500,000
One America Works · Austin, TX · 2021
To increase the pipeline of growing technology companies and technology workers that expand operations and build careers in pittsburgh and other midwestern cities
$500,000
Pittsburgh Opera · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
To restore the national negro opera company house as a community center and initiate arts programming
$500,000
Thrill Mill · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Toward support of operations and programs that aim to increase the success of pittsburgh start-ups
$500,000
Westmoreland Museum of Art · Greensburg, PA · 2021
Toward support of operations
$490,000
Literacy Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To enhance community-based reading tutoring programs to understand the design features that have the greatest impact on students' reading achievement
$483,509
Hazelwood Initiative · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Toward two-year support to purchase and renovate commercial properties in the hazelwood business district, and acquire residential properties
$470,000
Allegheny Council To Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Toward capacity building efforts to ensure immediate success and impact from the implementation of emerging public funding streams for infrastructure
$450,000
Ligonier Valley Young Men'S Christian Association of Pennsylvania · Ligonier, PA · 2024
Toward roof repairs
$450,000
Pennsylvania Environmental Council · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To educate key decision-makers and the general public about ways to improve conservation practices for positive environmental outcomes
$435,000
American Rivers · Washington, DC · 2021
To complete four projects reconnecting 29 miles of aquatic habitat in focal geographies and advance seven additional projects providing instream and floodplain connectivity
$425,000
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To protect property in somerset county as an addition to forbes state forest in the laurel highlands
$410,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust · Topsham, ME · 2024
To develop branding and content to increase public engagement
$409,000
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc the · Annapolis, MD · 2023
To support a 4 p approach (plans, partners, places, and practices) for maximum impact on improving water quality
$400,000
Bethlen Home of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America · Ligonier, PA · 2024
To upgrade room furniture and flooring
$400,000
Bible Center Church · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
For child and youth-serving programs
$400,000
Center of Life · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$400,000
Chesapeake Bay Foundation · Annapolis, MD · 2024
To support watershed restoration and best management practices to improve habitat and water quality in the chesapeake bay watershed
$400,000
Pittsburgh Area Community Schools · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To continue attendance improvement initiatives in westmoreland county
$400,000
Upmc for You · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
For freedom house 2.0s emergency medical technician training and apprenticeship programs
$400,000
Youth Enrichment Services · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Toward support of operations
$400,000
Amachi Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To provide programs that serve young people with an incarcerated parent
$400,000
Bridgeway Capital · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To support the alliance for creative rural economies partners program in johnstown, new kensington, and greensburg