The Foundation makes grants to institutions and organizations, not to individuals. All grants result from invitations issued by the Foundation to institutions with which staff have engaged in preliminary exchanges. We are unable to consider uninvited proposals. Please do not send inquiries about possibilities for support to more than one Foundation program. Before sending any material, send a brief inquiry by email to ach@mellon.org.

We do not fund direct grants to individuals, capital and equipment costs, overhead, indirect costs, endowment management fees, one-off conferences, conservation treatment, K–12 arts education, or digitization of collections.

Grantmaking Policies and Guidelines

Please see the Foundation's grantmaking guidelines for more information regarding the submission of proposals, annual reporting requirements, and grant modification procedures.

Other Funding Opportunities

The Arts and Cultural Heritage program supports a number of regranting programs in the performing arts.