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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “mellon”
Where the money went
Largest: $5.0M to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to launch the center for shared prosperity at carnegie mellon university: (the "center"), a university-community partnership to address barriers to equality in pittsburgh
Largest: $100,000 to SETON HILL UNIVERSITY — toward an annual scholarship in recognition of sandra s. mellon's community leadership
Largest: $1.5M to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains
Largest: $192,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — simons investigator in computer science
Largest: $500,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — launching decarb@cmu, an initiative connecting researchers and regional stakeholders working on industrial decarbonization
Largest: $8.6M to AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES — to support the administration and annual institutional renewals for the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship program
The Virginia Foundation for CommunityRichmond, VACharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $2.5M · through 2024Largest: $401,042 to VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM — to support the mellon, caps, claude moore scholars, clark foundation engineering and workforce programs.
Council of Graduate SchoolsWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $280,000 · through 2023Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE — mellon career pathway
Largest: $109,086 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to support the k-12 outreach efforts of carnegie mellon universitys learning sciences initiative
Largest: $250,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — research grant funding
Largest: $100,000 to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY — to support a nonpartisan policy translation fellowship at the center for informed democracy and social-cybersecurity at carnegie mellon university.
California State University FoundationLong Beach, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $185,761 to CSU LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION — mellon acls grant transfer to campus
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →