The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a nonprofit corporation governed by the laws of the State of New York. It was founded on the 30th of June 1969 through the consolidation of Avalon Foundation and Old Dominion Foundation.
Currently, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is making grants in five core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship; Scholarly Communications and Information Technology; Art History, Conservation, and Museums; Performing Arts; and, Conservation and the Environment.
The foundation's philosophy is to build, strengthen, and sustain institutions and thier core capacities.
Cambridge, MA—April 17, 2018. The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has received a grant of $870,000 from The Andrew W....more
Two River Theater is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation,...more
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are providing seven grants (totaling more than $1 million) to digitize out-of-print humanities texts and make them...more
The program is a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Design and the Minnesota Historical Society, and was awarded the grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation late last...more
This grant is from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, or APAEP, at Auburn University. This grant will allow Auburn to have an impact on...more
These grants are intended to provide financial assistance to city of St. Petersburg resident artists for specific projects. The program is designed to support public engagement of individual artists'...more
As announced in January, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the university a $300,000 grant to support enhanced collaboration between the libraries and the art museum. Six fellowship grants will...more
A $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been awarded to the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. The grant will go towards a...more
As a recipient of a prestigious $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Amherst College will develop an initiative to identify and prepare students from underrepresented ... The goal of...more
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University recently received a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support initiatives focused on inclusive pedagogy and community...more
Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”