Organization:Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | |
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| Founded | June 30, 1969 |
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| Founder | Paul Mellon Ailsa Mellon Bruce |
| Focus | Higher education Museums and art conservation Performing arts Conservation |
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| Method | Grants |
Key people | Elizabeth Alexander (President) |
Revenue (2015) | $380,179,226[1] |
| Expenses (2015) | $331,375,744[1] |
| Endowment | $6.1 billion |
| Website | www.mellon.org |
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, simply known as Mellon Foundation, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations had been set up separately by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon, the children of Andrew Mellon.
The foundation is housed in New York City in the expanded former offices of the Bollingen Foundation, another educational philanthropy once supported by Paul Mellon. Poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander is the foundation's current president. Her predecessors have included Earl Lewis, Don Randel, William G. Bowen, John Edward Sawyer and Nathan Pusey. In 2004, the foundation was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[2]
Core areas of interest
- Higher education, including the humanities, libraries, and scholarly communication and information technology
- Museums and art conservation
- Performing arts
- Conservation and the environment
Research group
Mellon has a small research group that has investigated doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, charitable nonprofits, scholarly communications, and other issues to ensure that the foundation's grants would be well-informed and more effective. Some of the recent publications of this effect include Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values, JSTOR: A History, The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values, and The Shape of the River.
Mellon's endowment has fluctuated in the range of $5–6 billion in recent years, and its annual grantmaking has been on the order of $300 million.
Projects & initiatives
- Aluka
- Artstor
- JSTOR
- Open Library of Humanities
- The Monuments Project[3]
- The Maniobra Initiative (The work of one's hands initiative)[4]
- Creatives Rebuild New York[5]
See also
- A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
- List of wealthiest charitable foundations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation". http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/131/131879954/131879954_201512_990PF.pdf.
- ↑ "Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts". Nea.gov. http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#04.
- ↑ "Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments". New York Times. 5 October 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/arts/mellon-foundation-monuments.html. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ↑ "Mellon Foundation, CEC launch $8 million artist program in Puerto Rico". Philanthropy News Digest. 4 May 2022. https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mellon-foundation-cec-launch-8-million-artist-program-in-puerto-rico. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ↑ "2,700 Artists in New York State Will Benefit from New $125M Program". Hyperallergic. 7 February 2022. https://hyperallergic.com/709695/2700-artists-in-new-york-state-will-benefit-from-new-125m-program/. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
External links
- Finding aid to the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Records at the Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
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