Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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| Founded | June 30, 1969 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Paul Mellon Ailsa Mellon Bruce |
| Focus | Higher education Museums and art conservation Performing arts Conservation |
| Location |
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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 is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew W. 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 were set up separately by Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the children of Andrew W. Mellon. It is housed in the expanded former offices of the Bollingen Foundation in New York City, another educational philanthropy supported by Paul Mellon. Elizabeth Alexander is the Foundation's 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]
Contents
1 Core areas of interest
2 Research group
3 Projects
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
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 in order 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
- Aluka
- Artstor
- JSTOR
- Open Library of Humanities
See also
- List of wealthiest charitable foundations
References
^ ab "Andrew W. Mellon Foundation" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
^ "Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts". Nea.gov. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2012-04-28.
External links
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation official site
- Mellon Program in Scholarly Communication
- Mellon Program in Museums and Art Conservation
- Mellon Program in Research in Information Technology
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowships
- The UCL Mellon Program
Finding aid to the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Records at the Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh