Announcements

Third Round of Grants to be Made to Arts Organizations Affected by Events of September 11

March 12, 2002

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today a third round of grants, totaling approximately $28.0 million, to be made from the Foundation's special $50 million fund to assist New York City cultural and performing arts organizations that were directly affected by the events of September 11, 2001. The recipients are forty-six performing arts organizations, twelve museums, the City's three circulating library systems, and the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library. To date, the Foundation has awarded a total of $43 million as part of the special initiative.

The grants were approved by a special Trustee Committee chaired by the Foundation's Chairman, Hanna H. Gray, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago. The other members of the Committee are W. Taylor Reveley, III, Dean of the William and Mary Law School, and William G. Bowen, the Foundation's President.

In making the announcement, Mr. Bowen stated, "This round of grants focused primarily on the larger performing arts organizations and museums. We were also able to make a series of grants to the City's public libraries which have served such an important role in the lives of New Yorkers following the attack on September 11th. With the funds remaining, we expect to focus on public parks and related organizations, and a number of organizations that were deferred in earlier rounds. Unfortunately, we have now reached the point where we are unable to consider new requests for assistance."

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private foundation, with assets of approximately $4 billion, which makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; museums and art conservation; performing arts; population; conservation and the environment; and public affairs. Information about the Foundation, including its annual reports and announcements concerning this special fund, is available on its Web site (http://www.mellon.org). The Foundation does not make grants directly to individuals.

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Performing Arts Organizations

Aaron Davis Hall
The Actors' Fund of America
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation
American Music Center
The American Symphony Orchestra League
The Apollo Theater Foundation
Ballet Theatre Foundation (American Ballet Theatre)
The Vivian Beaumont Theater (Lincoln Center Theater)
Big Apple Circus
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Information & Culture
The Carnegie Hall Corporation/The Carnegie Hall Society
City Center
College Community Services (Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts)
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
Cunningham Dance Foundation
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Discalced (Mark Morris Dance Group)
Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Thirteen - WNET)
Harlem School of the Arts
Henry Street Settlement
Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Joyce Theater Foundation
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance
King's Majestic Corporation
Lehman College Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Manhattan Theater Club
Metropolitan Opera Association
The New 42nd Street
New York City Ballet
New York City Opera
New York Foundation for the Arts
Paul Taylor Dance Foundation
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of NY (New York Philharmonic)
Playwrights Horizons
New York Shakespeare Festival (The Public Theater)
Queens Council on the Arts
Roundabout Theatre Company
Second Stage Theatre
Symphony Space
Theatre Development Fund
Theatreworks/USA Corp.
Town Hall Foundation

Museums

American Museum of Natural History
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Frick Collection
The Jewish Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Pierpont Morgan Library
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy of Design
Smithsonian Institution - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Studio Museum In Harlem
Whitney Museum of American Art

Libraries

Brooklyn Public Library
New York Public Library (which includes the Bronx and Staten Island)
Queens Borough Public Library
The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library