Press Room

Press releases, images, contacts, and information about Mellon Foundation.

Contacts

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Tonya Bell

Director of Media and Public Relations

Maggie Slowey

Media Relations Associate

Press Room

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Mellon at a glance

Founded

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was established by Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon, the children of Andrew W. Mellon.

Total endowment

Charitable grantmaking supports ideas and organizations that contribute to a more connected, creative, and just society.

Grantees in 2023

Mellon actively works with our grantee partners, and we are deeply immersed in the fields in which we invest.

Awarded in 2023

Grantmaking across all areas supports ideas and organizations that contribute to a more connected, creative, and just society.

Mellon’s visual identity and image library is the set of visual markers that allows us to both express and reinforce our values through aesthetics.

November 19, 2025

New National Study Offers Fresh Insight into the Lives and Livelihoods of US Artists

November 18, 2025

Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Arts Fund Announce the 2025 Letras Boricuas Fellows

November 12, 2025

Mellon Awards $6.5M to Institutions Advancing Jazz Scholarship and Storytelling

October 28, 2025

Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts

October 14, 2025

Humanity AI Commits $500M to Build a People-Centered Future for AI