Mellon continues to distribute additional funds to help shore up struggling arts and cultural organizations and higher learning institutions.
Information on measures the Mellon Foundation is taking in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as helpful field resources.
COVID-19 Response, Press Releases
Mellon Foundation Announces Additional $200 Million Grantmaking Commitment to Arts and Humanities Nonprofits Devastated by Global Pandemic
June 11, 2020
COVID-19 Response, Mellon News
Coronavirus Relief Fund Raises Nearly $20 Million for Artists
September 24, 2020
Mellon Foundation Launches New Art Museum Futures Fund to Distribute Tens of Millions to Art Museums Nationwide
September 17, 2020
COVID-19 Response, Grantee News
Literary Arts Emergency Fund Awards More than $3.5 Million to 282 Organizations, Magazines, and Presses across the US in Historic Relief Effort
September 15, 2020
Mellon Foundation Launches New Initiative to Support 1,500 Artists and Small Arts Organizations as COVID-19 Crisis Continues
August 27, 2020
Mellon News
Leading Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy
June 10, 2020
CUNY Receives $10 Million to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives
August 13, 2020
Mellon Foundation Awards Emergency Grants to Prison Education Programs as COVID Crisis Continues
August 6, 2020
New Nationwide “United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund" to Give Arts Organizations a Critical Lifeline During Pandemic
June 16, 2020
A Message to Our Grantees and Partners about COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Apollo Theater, Second Stage, La MaMa, Hundreds More Receive Relief Aid From the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund
July 29, 2020
COVID-19 Response, Mellon News, Press Releases
Coalition of Arts Funders Launches Emergency Artist Relief Fund
April 8, 2020
COVID-19 Response, Grantee News, Press Releases
Mellon Foundation Announces $4 Million Emergency Relief Grant to the American Indian College Fund in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 22, 2020
Flamboyán Arts Fund and Mellon Foundation Announce $1 Million Puerto Rico Arts Emergency Relief Fund
April 28, 2020
Helping Citymeals and God’s Love We Deliver Feed NYC's Elderly and At-Risk Homebound Populations during COVID-19 Crisis
March 26, 2020
Helpful COVID-19 Resources
April 2020
Recognizing the Roles of Women throughout American History
March 18, 2021
COVID-19 Response
L.A. County’s Arts Nonprofits Get Pandemic Relief. How A $38.5-million Fund Will Work
February 9, 2021
Inside Higher Ed on "Just Futures"
January 14, 2021
Who Owns America’s History? The Answer Will Define What Replaces Fallen Monuments.
January 11, 2021
She’s Spending $250 Million to Rethink Memorials. How Should We Decide Which Ones to Dismantle?
January 6, 2021
Small US Art Museums Awarded Relief Grants by Mellon Foundation
December 16, 2020
William Penn and Mellon Foundations Give $8 Million to Philly Arts and Culture Groups Hit by COVID-19
December 2, 2020
President Barack Obama in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander & Michele Norris on Nov. 23 at 11:30am EST
November 2020
The Monuments Project: Building the Commemorative Landscape 21st-century America Needs
October 11, 2020
Race in America: The Arts
October 5, 2020
Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments