The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Historical FunderNew York, New York · EIN 13-1879954 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$555M
Organizations funded848
Typical grant$500,000
Total assets$7.9B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $250,000 and $750,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION |
|---|---|
| Address | 140 EAST 62ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10065 |
| Phone | 2128388400 |
| HTTPS://MELLON.FLUXX.IO/ | |
| Form and materials | SEE STATEMENT 26 |
| Deadlines | SEE STATEMENT 27 |
| Restrictions | ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY FOUNDATION GRANTS MUST BE CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND THE TREASURY REGULATIONS. |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
72% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To support the administration and annual institutional renewals for the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship program | $8,556,000 |
| City of Richmond | Richmond, VA | To support the planning, development, and initial operations of a cultural space located at the shockoe bottom train shed that memorializes… | $7,000,000 |
| The International Association of Blacks in Dance Inc | Washington, DC | To support a regranting program to artists and companies driving the future of black dance | $5,600,000 |
| Freedom Reads | Hamden, CT | To provide major renewed support to freedom reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity | $5,000,000 |
| Wgbh Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | To support the american archive of public broadcasting to preserve endangered public media holdings at scale for future access and use | $5,000,000 |
| Montpelier Foundation | Montpelier Station, VA | To support the creation of a memorial to the individuals who were enslaved at montpelier | $4,282,000 |
| Monument Lab | Philadelphia, PA | To support the expansion of the re:generation program, field building, narrative change work, and general operations | $4,000,000 |
| Los Angeles Nomadic Division | Los Angeles, CA | To support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to south central | $3,950,000 |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | Washington, DC | To support the african american cultural heritage action funds grantmaking, programs, marketing, expanded technical assistance for… | $3,500,000 |
| Fidelity Charitable | Cincinnati, OH | Matching gift | $3,485,813 |
| Hunter College | New York, NY | To continue support for the center for puerto rican studies rooted & relational initiative | $3,468,000 |
| The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events | Chicago, IL | To support the chicago monuments project and citywide community-initiated commemorative initiatives and installations | $3,400,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To support the development and initial work of the new office of human dignity | $3,000,000 |
| University of California at Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | To continue support for visualizing abolition | $3,000,000 |
| California State University at Fresno | Fresno, CA | To support internship programming for humanities students | $2,944,000 |
| The Center for Economic Research and Social Change Inc | Chicago, IL | To continue support for the writing freedom fellowship | $2,864,500 |
| Museum Am Rothenbaum | Hamburg, GM | To support digital benins next phase, and an open source repository of software and tools accessible to other digital heritage projects | $2,850,000 |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | Washington, DC | To support the establishment of an oral history project as part of the federal indian boarding school initiative | $2,700,000 |
| Alliance for California Traditional Arts | Fresno, CA | To support organizational capacity and a national fellowship for traditional artists | $2,500,000 |
| City University of New York | New York, NY | To support the further development of black, race, and ethnic studies across the cuny system | $2,500,000 |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Alexandria, VA | To support a national grantmaking competition for digitization of materials that deepen public understanding of people and communities that… | $2,500,000 |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Alexandria, VA | To support a regranting program for the digitization of materials | $2,500,000 |
| Latino Theater Company | Los Angeles, CA | To support the latinx theater initiative | $2,500,000 |
| Miami Valley Public Media Inc | Yellow Springs, OH | To support the preservation of historical audio collections held by campus radio stations at historically black colleges and universities | $2,500,000 |
| Old Dominion University | Norfolk, VA | To support internship programming for humanities students | $2,500,000 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL | To continue support for a research and training program for advanced graduate students | $2,500,000 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | To support an initiative that centers interdisciplinary humanistic scholarship | $2,285,500 |
| Kinfolk Tech Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | To continue support for the kinfolk ar monuments app and digital archive | $2,250,000 |
| Web Du Bois Museum Foundation | New York, NY | To support historic preservation and conservation work at the w.e.b. du bois centre in accra, ghana as well as organizational development… | $2,250,000 |
| New England Foundation for the Arts Inc | Boston, MA | To continue support for the national theater project | $2,206,000 |
| Invisible Histories Project | Birmingham, AL | To support general operations | $2,200,000 |
| New England Foundation for the Arts Inc | Boston, MA | To continue support for the national dance project | $2,062,000 |
| University of California at San Diego | LA Jolla, CA | To support the UC sentencing project, a collaboration between ucsd, UCLA, and members of the california coalition of women prisoners | $2,008,000 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | To support a partnership that connects academic instruction through masters-level coursework with on-the-job work | $2,000,000 |
| Baryshnikov Arts Center Inc | New York, NY | To support strategic planning and execution of the bloodlines interwoven festival | $2,000,000 |
| Centro de Economa Creativa Inc | San Juan, PR | To support the maniobra music cohort | $2,000,000 |
| City University of New York | New York, NY | To support the development of infrastructure and staff for strengthening the institutional archives of the city university of new york | $2,000,000 |
| National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Inc | Washington, DC | To support a regranting program and organizational capacity | $2,000,000 |
| Social Impact Fund | Los Angeles, CA | To continue support for organizational capacity, a preservation toolkit, and a regranting program of a sponsored project | $2,000,000 |
| The Historymakers | Chicago, IL | To support general operations | $2,000,000 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | To support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond | $2,000,000 |
| The Zeitz Mocaa Foundation | Cape Town, SF | To support general operations | $2,000,000 |
| University of Missouri at Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | To support internship programming for humanities students | $2,000,000 |
| University of Missouri at Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | To support historical and preservation projects as well as public programming across the kansas city region | $2,000,000 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | To support the creation of a humanities-based environmental justice studies curriculum and associated projects | $1,903,550 |
| City College of New York | New York, NY | To support internship programming for humanities students | $1,816,000 |
| University of Maryland at College Park | College Park, MD | To support the expansion of an archival information platform | $1,815,000 |
| Michigan Department of Natural Resources | Lansing, MI | To support michigan history center's gchi mshiiken deh minising/heart of great turtle island project | $1,800,000 |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc | Anchorage, AK | To support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks | $1,750,000 |
| The Heritage Management Organization Inc | Chicago, IL | To support organizational capacity, training, and a regranting program for cultural heritage projects in sub-saharan africa | $1,750,000 |
| US Biennial Inc | New Orleans, LA | To support a selection of monumental works at prospect.6 | $1,750,000 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | To support the movements against mass incarceration lab | $1,716,000 |
| Museum of West African Art Ltdgte | Benin City, NI | To support capacity, partnerships, and construction of artist studios and a residency guest house | $1,700,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities phds | $1,687,500 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To support an open competition addressing sustainable digital infrastructures and promoting justice and equity in digital scholarly practice | $1,657,500 |
| The Theater Offensive Inc | Boston, MA | To support capital costs and programming at the boylston black box | $1,650,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities | $1,625,000 |
| Sylvester Manor Educational Farm Inc | Shelter Island, NY | To support the historic manor house renovation and expanded history & heritage department programming and staffing | $1,575,000 |
| North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems | Minneapolis, MN | To continue support for indigenous foodways education | $1,550,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships | $1,500,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 848 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To support the development and initial work of the new office of human dignity | $7,000,000 |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Alexandria, VA | To support the digitizing hidden collections: amplifying unheard voices program | $5,000,000 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | To continue support to a sponsored project develop a financial management platform for artists | $5,000,000 |
| The University of Memphis | Memphis, TN | To support internships for humanities majors | $4,999,000 |
| University of South Carolina Upstate | Spartanburg, SC | To support internships for humanities majors | $3,604,000 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | To support internships for humanities majors | $3,537,333 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | To support a humanities-centered internship program | $3,500,000 |
| University of Hawaii at Mnoa | Honolulu, HI | To support the development of a hawaiian knowledge organization system | $3,220,000 |
| Hunter College | New York, NY | To continue support for the center for puerto rican studies rooted & relational initiative | $3,000,000 |
| National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Inc | Washington, DC | To support a regranting program and organizational capacity | $3,000,000 |
| United States Artists Inc | Chicago, IL | To continue support of artist fellowships | $3,000,000 |
| University of California at Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | To continue support for visualizing abolition | $3,000,000 |
| The Center for Economic Research and Social Change Inc | Chicago, IL | To continue support for the writing freedom fellowship | $2,864,500 |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Alexandria, VA | To support a regranting program for the digitization of materials | $2,500,000 |
| Institute of International Education Inc | New York, NY | To continue support for academic and humanitarian assistance | $2,500,000 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL | To continue support for a research and training program for advanced graduate students | $2,500,000 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | To support an initiative that centers interdisciplinary humanistic scholarship | $2,285,500 |
| Miami University | Oxford, OH | To support further development of an indigenous language archives platform through community research engagement | $2,100,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To support building capacity to administer a mellon mays undergraduate fellowship graduate program | $2,000,000 |
| Array Alliance Inc | Los Angeles, CA | To support an educational campaign for a film regarding public monuments in the united states | $2,000,000 |
| Hunter College | New York, NY | To continue support for diasporic digital studies, with a focus on graduate students and community collaboration | $2,000,000 |
| New England Foundation for the Arts Inc | Boston, MA | To continue support for the national dance project | $2,000,000 |
| Scholars at Risk Inc | New York, NY | To continue to support academic freedom hubs | $2,000,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To support national museum of african american history and culture | $2,000,000 |
| Social Impact Fund | Los Angeles, CA | To continue support for organizational capacity, a preservation toolkit, and a regranting program of a sponsored project | $2,000,000 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | To support US arts fellows | $2,000,000 |
| The National Black Theatre Workshop | New York, NY | To continue support for general operations | $2,000,000 |
| Ubw Inc | Brooklyn, NY | To continue support for general operations | $2,000,000 |
| University of Missouri at Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | To support historical and preservation projects as well as public programming across the kansas city region | $2,000,000 |
| San Francisco Public Library | San Francisco, CA | To continue support for the expanding information access for incarcerated people initiative | $1,966,000 |
| Marshall University | Huntington, WV | To support internships for humanities majors | $1,914,000 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | To support the creation of a humanities-based environmental justice studies curriculum and associated projects | $1,903,550 |
| Trinity University | San Antonio, TX | To support expansion of the philosophy and literature circle | $1,815,000 |
| University of Maryland at College Park | College Park, MD | To support the expansion of an archival information platform | $1,815,000 |
| Onondaga Historical Association | Syracuse, NY | To support a public history project and design competition in coordination with the city of syracuse | $1,800,000 |
| Gora Cultural Architects | Boston, MA | To continue support for bori-corridor | $1,782,000 |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc | Anchorage, AK | To support the creation of a permanent outdoor space featuring original artworks | $1,750,000 |
| Haser Inc | San Juan, PR | To continue support for the network of actions | $1,710,000 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | To continue support for el proyecto de LA literatura puertorriquea/the puerto rican literature project | $1,600,000 |
| Cave Canem Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | To support general operations | $1,550,000 |
| North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems | Minneapolis, MN | To continue support for indigenous foodways education | $1,550,000 |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | Detroit, MI | To support operating expenses and programmatic costs to continue ongoing partnerships and seed new program areas for a sponsored project | $1,500,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To continue support for postdoctoral fellowships | $1,500,000 |
| Dance Service New York City Inc | New York, NY | To continue support of the dance rehearsal space subsidy program | $1,500,000 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | To continue to support for a structured humanities learning community | $1,500,000 |
| Forge Project Association | Ancram, NY | To support organizational capacity and a lending collection of indigenous works | $1,500,000 |
| Freedom Education Project Puget Sound | Seattle, WA | To continue support educational opportunities | $1,500,000 |
| Hamilton College | Clinton, NY | To continue support for the implementation of the academic leadership fellows program among the new york six liberal arts consortium | $1,500,000 |
| Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc | Ossining, NY | To continue support of higher education in prison programs | $1,500,000 |
| Prospect Park Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | To support descendant partnerships and interpretative elements on the lefferts house grounds, including new exhibits and landscaping | $1,500,000 |
| Ps1 Contemporary Art Center Inc | New York, NY | To support general operations | $1,500,000 |
| Shift Design Inc | New Orleans, LA | To support organizational development and programming of a sponsored project | $1,500,000 |
| Silk Road Project Inc | Boston, MA | To continue support for capacity building and programmatic development | $1,500,000 |
| The Valerie J Maynard Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | To support capacity building and planning | $1,500,000 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | To continue support for a digital futures collaborative network | $1,491,500 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | To continue support for dissertation writing fellowships | $1,450,000 |
| The Center for Economic Research and Social Change Inc | Chicago, IL | To continue support of a sponsored project collective focused on education, mutual aid, and community building across prison walls | $1,400,000 |
| Valdosta State University | Valdosta, GA | To support internships for humanities majors | $1,350,000 |
| Movimiento Anans Inc | Carolina, PR | To continue support for revista tnica | $1,300,000 |
| Museum of West African Art Ltdgte | Benin City, | To support capacity, partnerships, and construction of artist studios and a residency guest house | $1,300,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $555,004,183 | 1,165 |
| 2023 | $524,690,293 | 1,109 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 14, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202523189349104752
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 13-1879954
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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