Grants

Adler University
Chicago, IL, United States

$369,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

American Indian College Fund
Denver, CO, United States

$4,000,000
to support tribal college and university students in need of emergency financial support due to the COVID-19 crisis

Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Cambridge, MA, United States

$600,000
to continue support for the undergraduate education of refugee students in Bangladesh, including Rohingya and Afghan women

Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to continue support for a program for transfer students to foster faculty-supported independent academic research in the humanities and social sciences

California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$2,000,000
to support the CUNY Cultural Corps program

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$2,500,000
to support the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Grant Program for students impacted by the COVID-19 crisis

Claflin University
Orangeburg, SC, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, GA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Columbia University
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Dillard University
New Orleans, LA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

El Paso Community Foundation
El Paso, TX, United States

$598,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Emory University
Atlanta, GA, United States

$1,000,000
to provide tie-off support for a program of visiting scholars and dissertation-completing graduate students at the James Weldon Johnson Institute

Fisk University
Nashville, TN, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Florida International University
Miami, FL, United States

$1,612,000
to continue support for activities that assist humanities students to complete their degrees at Miami Dade College, transfer to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Los Altos Hills, CA, United States

$1,833,000
to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

Foundation for California Community Colleges
Sacramento, CA, United States

$360,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound
Seattle, WA, United States

$255,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC, United States

$800,000
to support a disability studies project that uses innovative digital visual pedagogy to further ASL and English bilingualism

Georgetown University
Washington, DC, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Hampton University
Hampton, VA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Howard University
Washington, DC, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Inc.
Ossining, NY, United States

$1,200,000
to renew support for the coordination of higher education programs and student support at correctional facilities throughout the Hudson Valley

Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Inc.
Ossining, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Institute of International Education, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$2,500,000
to continue support for academic and humanitarian assistance for displaced scholars threatened by war and repression

Institute of International Education, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support the Emergency Student Fund for international students in the US impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Johnson C. Smith University
Charlotte, NC, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Lincoln University
Lincoln, PA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

$800,000
to support the establishment of a center for excellence in teaching in the humanities

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI, United States

$745,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals

Marymount Manhattan College
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Miami Dade College
Miami, FL, United States

$1,400,000
to continue support for activities that would assist humanities students in completing their degrees at Miami Dade College and transferring to Florida International University, and strengthen faculty and staff collaborations between the institutions

Mississippi Humanities Council, Inc.
Jackson, MS, United States

$375,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Mount Tamalpais College
San Quentin, CA, United States

$500,000
to continue to support prison education and reentry

Mount Tamalpais College
San Quentin, CA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support college and university leaders who seek to improve campus services to immigrant students

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, United States

$462,000
to support a multiyear undergraduate internship pilot program to create pathways to careers in the arts for students from Howard University

New York University
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

New York University
New York, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to continue to support prison education and reentry programs

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, NC, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Northeastern Illinois University Foundation
Chicago, IL, United States

$873,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Pitzer College
Claremont, CA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, TX, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT, United States

$364,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ, United States

$15,000,000
to support the establishment of an institute for the advanced study of race and social justice

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
Newark, NJ, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
Newark, NJ, United States

$250,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Scholars at Risk, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$400,000
to continue support for research and communications capacity, including for “Free to Think,” a report on documenting attacks on academic freedom

Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College
Cumberland, KY, United States

$617,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Spelman College
Atlanta, GA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Stetson University, Inc.
DeLand, FL, United States

$359,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

The Council for At-Risk Academics
London, United Kingdom

$100,000
to support refugee scholars impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

United Negro College Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States

$2,500,000
to renew support for a suite of faculty development programs across 37 Historically Black Colleges and Universities

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States

$950,000
to support campus-wide expansion of the Art of Writing Program to community college and transfer students

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States

$1,000,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana

$800,000
to support the establishment of a center for teaching and learning for the humanities

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States

$150,000
to support collaborative research efforts among Research-1 Hispanic-Serving Institutions

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States

$517,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States

$1,000,000
to continue to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at research universities

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, ME, United States

$941,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR, United States

$481,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to support prison education and reentry

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, United States

$793,000
to continue support for the transfer of humanities students from Foothill De-Anza Community College District to the University of San Francisco, as well as faculty collaborations on curriculum and pedagogy

University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States

$700,000
to support curriculum innovation intended to attract first-year undergraduates to humanities courses and majors

Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$2,500,000
to provide support for ongoing assistance to the college-corrections partnerships participating in the Second Chance Pell pilot to ensure successful program implementation and statewide coordination, and to build strategies for improved enrollment and persistence rates for incarcerated students of color

Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, United States

$980,000
to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, NC, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA, United States

$110,000
to support enrollment stabilization efforts and emergency student needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States

$4,279,000
to support the development of a collective model of mentorship through program activities and scholarly collaborations centered on Indigenous knowledge and practices

Brown University
Providence, RI, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America”

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$3,000,000
to support the further development of ethnic studies across the CUNY system

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States

$150,000
to support a database of documents related to fugitives from North American slavery

Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR, United States

$750,000
to support community partnerships to address social suffering brought about by incarceration, inequitable access to higher education, and physical/mental illness

Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
Washington, DC, United States

$250,000
to support events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission, and its resulting report that examined the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and provided recommendations for a more just future

New York Public Library
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to continue support for the preservation of collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture that were not previously made available to the public

New York University
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to support the development of a Latinx focused interdisciplinary center

Rice University
Houston, TX, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities”

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
Newark, NJ, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City”

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
Newark, NJ, United States

$500,000
to support the Humanities Action Lab’s “Climates of Inequality and the COVID Crisis” initiative

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Race and the Middle East/North Africa”

The New School
New York, NY, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power”

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities”

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Place-based Histories in the Americas”

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States

$800,000
to support a final grant for the Global Urban Humanities Initiative with a new focus on engaged research and practice that documents marginalized communities and their histories in the San Francisco Bay region

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$1,000,000
to support a final grant to embed the urban humanities program permanently into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula

University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context”

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th to 21st Centuries”

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$500,000
to continue support for students and community partners in the Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program with a particular focus on recruiting diverse students to heritage studies and public history

University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
San Juan, PR, United States

$700,000
to support faculty development in the Afro-Diasporic program

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, United States

$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled “Unbordering Migration in the Americas: Causes, Experiences, Identities”

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, United States

$600,000
to support an inclusive, community-based environmental humanities fellows program

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States

$750,000
to support a series of graduate summer field schools led by the Vernacular Architecture Forum that train students in research methods that support the recovery of lost or erased spatial histories of marginalized people

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States

$5,000,000
to support the development of undergraduate curricular and research opportunities related to the university’s and the region’s Indigenous and Black histories and a series of postdoctoral-to-faculty fellowships in related fields

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cambridge, MA, United States

$150,000
to support dissemination of the results of the Foundation-funded Humanities Departmental Survey and Humanities in Our Lives Survey

American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States

$3,500,000
to support dissertation completion fellowships for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences

American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States

$1,900,000
to support the continuation of the Society and Scholars fellowship program, enabling faculty at research universities to connect humanities scholarship with the public interest

American Councils for International Education
Washington, DC, United States

$150,000
to support an online GIS-driven interactive site to collect key information on leading programs and practices in language education at the local, state, and federal levels

Brown University
Providence, RI, United States

$4,974,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Brown University
Providence, RI, United States

$245,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

Carleton College
Northfield, MN, United States

$300,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL, United States

$150,000
to support future programming and community outreach related to the Chicago Humanities Festival’s annual theme

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$2,000,000
to support a program to strengthen pedagogy across the CUNY system

Columbia University
New York, NY, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Columbia University
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States

$4,951,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Florida International University
Miami, FL, United States

$4,632,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Howard University
Washington, DC, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Illinois Humanities Council
Chicago, IL, United States

$750,000
to support the planning and implementation of a statewide initiative that uses the arts and humanities to bring forward the voices of those directly impacted by the criminal legal system

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, United States

$226,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands

$900,000
Final support for a humanities-focused research program that creates a network of institutions through Humanities Across Borders:  Asia and Africa in the World

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States

$4,394,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Johnson C. Smith University
Charlotte, NC, United States

$500,000
to support a suite of activities to expand the area and cultural studies programs

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States

$3,074,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Modern Language Association of America
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support the Language Enrollment Census

National Humanities Alliance Foundation
Washington, DC, United States

$1,085,000
to continue support for work to educate the public and policymakers about the vital role the humanities play in national and community life

Pomona College
Claremont, CA, United States

$285,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

$798,000
to support community-based documentary studies

Social Science Research Council
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$4,800,000
to support the International Dissertation Research Fellowship program for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, United States

$149,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

The New School
New York, NY, United States

$5,000,000
to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program to promote the hiring of scholars who would enhance diversity among faculty in the humanities

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, United States

$3,153,000
to support and expand a set of programs focused on Black Studies and racial justice that includes the Colored Conventions Project and the Center for Black Digital Research

The University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK, United States

$750,000
to support the development of an undergraduate fellowship in Native American and Indigenous Studies

The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS, United States

$500,000
to support the establishment of a campus institute for social justice and an interdisciplinary major in social justice studies

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, United States

$1,500,000
to continue support for a program in publicly engaged scholarship for graduate students in the humanities

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States

$291,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States

$2,877,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA, United States

$1,500,000
to continue support for an initiative to broaden the intellectual, pedagogic, and professional preparation of doctoral students in the humanities

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$5,000,000
to renew support for the development of innovative humanities curriculum, including the development of a social justice curriculum

University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA, United States

$2,959,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA, United States

$289,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

University of Georgia
Athens, GA, United States

$1,000,000
to support research and community engagement in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States

$5,000,000
to support the continued collaboration of the Humanities without Walls consortium of interdisciplinary humanities centers

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States

$257,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

$1,118,000
to continue support for building a data set studying the effects of liberal arts education on a broad set of student outcomes

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

$200,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$4,997,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, United States

$262,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR, United States

$4,520,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI, United States

$5,000,000
to support a Just Futures Initiative project

University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI, United States

$316,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, United States

$665,000
to support the creation of an undergraduate minor focused on humanities engagement with technology

Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, United States

$1,000,000
to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA, United States

$500,000
to support the expansion of the African American and Diaspora Studies program

American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States

$6,122,000
to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship:  Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Pomona, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; California Institute of Technology; City College of New York; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States

$3,600,000
to support Mellon Leading Edge Fellowships, enabling recent humanities PhDs to partner with nonprofit and government organizations active in the work of social justice and racial equity

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, United States

$2,028,000
to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support adjunct faculty impacted by COVID-related budget cuts and sustain humanities offerings at the City University of New York

Howard University
Washington, DC, United States

$755,000
to support a faculty development program

Institute for Citizens and Scholars
Princeton, NJ, United States

$775,000
to support a faculty fellowship in recognition of social justice service

Institute for Citizens and Scholars
Princeton, NJ, United States

$500,000
to support a suite of programs designed to facilitate the graduate school application process for Mellon Mays fellows taking gap years post-graduation

New York Public Library
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute

Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA, United States

$871,000
to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity

Teachers College–Columbia University
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support a study on guided transfer pathways in the humanities

The Aspen Institute, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States

$1,500,000
to continue to support and strengthen the Aspen Presidential Fellowship, which develops cohorts of community college leaders with the skills needed to transform their institutions and impact the field

The Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, United States

$500,000
to support a fellowship program designed to strengthen the field of early African American history

Trinity College
Hartford, CT, United States

$180,200
to provide implementation support for a convening for women of color leaders in higher education and other sectors

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, United States

$750,000
to support the Faculty of Color Working Group through the New England Humanities Consortium

University of Houston
Houston, TX, United States

$500,000
to renew support for the Mellon Research Scholars Program

Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$300,000
to continue support for new repertoire and a university-level curriculum

Alarm Will Sound, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$300,000
to continue support for artistic initiatives and organizational development

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA, United States

$150,000
to support a national planning effort to center the contributions of traditional artists to social justice work within, and between, their communities

Alternate Roots, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States

$1,250,000
to support a collaborative COVID-19 emergency response regranting program for community-based artists, culture bearers, and cultural organizations

Alternate Roots, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States

$600,000
to continue support for regranting programs for artistic initiatives and regional convenings

Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$1,680,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

California Community Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$10,000,000
to support COVID-19 emergency response for Los Angeles arts and cultural organizations

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to continue support for the Classical Commissioning Program

Clinton Community Christian Corporation
Clinton, MS, United States

$500,000
to support Sipp Culture in administering a collaborative COVID-19 emergency response regranting program for community-based artists, culture bearers, and cultural organizations

Clinton Community Christian Corporation
Clinton, MS, United States

$300,000
to continue support for the Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$350,000
to support strategic programming partnerships with city agencies, institutions of higher education, and Indigenous communities

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Inc.
Detroit, MI, United States

$1,000,000
to continue support for responsive engagement with the citizens of Detroit and pathways initiatives for musicians from underrepresented communities

Emerson College
Boston, MA, United States

$1,336,000
to continue support for HowlRound programming and administration of the National Playwright Residency Program

First Peoples Fund
Rapid City, SD, United States

$800,000
to support the Native Performing Artist Leadership program, and programming at Oglala Lakota Artspace

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Arlington, VA, United States

$1,425,000
to continue support for PBS Newshour’s CANVAS

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX, United States

$500,000
to continue support for artistic initiatives and organizational development

Howard University
Washington, DC, United States

$550,000
to support the assessment, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of the Howard University Gallery of Art collection 

Indian Land Tenure Foundation
Little Canada, MN, United States

$1,250,000
to support First Peoples Fund in administering a collaborative COVID-19 emergency response regranting program for community-based artists, culture bearers, and cultural organizations

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$2,000,000
to support digital programming, musician salaries, and the creation of new works during the COVID-19 pandemic

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC, United States

$3,000,000
to support the Social Impact Fund

Kenkeleba House, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to support the assessment, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of the collection

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD, United States

$1,710,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD, United States

$1,000,000
to continue support for the USArtists International Program

Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO, United States

$1,540,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

Museum of Chinese in America
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support a planning phase for the conservation of the collections

National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX, United States

$1,250,000
to support a collaborative COVID-19 emergency response regranting program for community-based artists, culture bearers, and cultural organizations

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA, United States

$750,000
to continue support for the Creation and Development Fund

National Philanthropic Trust
Jenkintown, PA, United States

$4,010,000
to support COVID-19 relief for Philadelphia arts and culture organizations

New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA, United States

$1,270,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

New Music USA, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$120,000
to support research and planning for New Music Hubs

New York Community Trust
New York, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to continue support for the Mosaic Fund, a funder collaboration to promote organizational health among small-to-midsized New York City arts organizations of color

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States

$750,000
to continue support for the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Opera America, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to support development and dissemination of new American opera

PAʻI Foundation
Honolulu, HI, United States

$750,000
to support a collaborative COVID-19 emergency response regranting program for community-based artists, culture bearers, and cultural organizations

Princeton Area Community Foundation, Inc.
Lawrenceville, NJ, United States

$500,000
to support the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$65,000
to support an archive assessment as part of the company’s legacy project

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA, United States

$1,000,000
to support the reinterpretation of the American art collection to foster a more equitable museum

Self-Help Graphics and Arts, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$350,000
to support organizational capacity building and future-forward imagining

Small Axe, Inc.
Lewiston, ME, United States

$200,000
to support curatorial research and dissemination about modernist Caribbean visual practices

SmartHistory, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY, United States

$150,000
to support the new role of dean of content and strategy and emerging art historians

Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States

$1,000,000
to support the Irene Hirano Inouye Memorial Fund for the Asian Pacific American Center’s directorship

Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States

$2,100,000
to support professional practice fellowships through the Smithsonian Latino Center

South Arts, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States

$1,830,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

Sundance Institute
Park City, UT, United States

$600,000
to continue support for the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program

The Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ, United States

$500,000
to continue support for the fellowship program

The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$375,000
to continue support for the Meredith Monk Lineage Project

The International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD, United States

$350,000
to support services to the field

The Laundromat Project, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support mapping of New York City’s Black, Indigenous, people of color-led and serving cultural entities, a collaboration with Hester Street and Museum Hue

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX, United States

$250,000
to support the Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition

The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$140,000
to support the production of new work

The Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA, United States

$600,000
to support the production and presentation of community-focused programming

UBW, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the Urban Bush Women archives

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL, United States

$200,000
to support Caribbean modernist research through The Geoffrey Holder Project

Western States Arts Federation
Denver, CO, United States

$1,970,000
to support the Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a collaboration among the six US Regional Arts Organizations

WNET
New York, NY, United States

$600,000
to continue support for ALL ARTS, a multiplatform portal for the arts

Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR, United States

$277,800
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Cara Mía Theatre Co.
Dallas, TX, United States

$238,100
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Center for Performance and Civic Practice
Phoenix, AZ, United States

$420,000
to continue support for the Catalyst Initiative

Crowded Fire Theater
San Francisco, CA, United States

$255,100
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Efforts of Grace, Inc.
New Orleans, LA, United States

$300,000
to continue support for the Ashé Racial Justice and Healing Initiative

La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$307,400
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL, United States

$353,300
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Mississippi Museum of Art, Inc.
Jackson, MS, United States

$1,250,000
to support the Center for Art and Public Exchange and the community components of Railways—a national artist-led and community-driven project to accompany the upcoming exhibition on the Great Migration

Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Washington, DC, United States

$293,000
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

New York University
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support research, dissemination, and archiving of work on Hemispheric Blackness and Hemispheric Migration through the Hemispheric Institute

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN, United States

$750,000
to support the planning and development for Penumbra’s Center for Racial Healing

Press Street
New Orleans, LA, United States

$500,000
to support planning, capacity building, and pilot programming for The Black School’s Black Schoolhouse

Rattlestick Productions, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$253,500
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

S U Theatre Corporation
Syracuse, NY, United States

$220,000
to support the four-city social justice theater project “Exiled in America”

Social and Public Art Resource Center
Venice, CA, United States

$5,000,000
to support the preservation, activation, and expansion of “The Great Wall of Los Angeles,” one of the country’s largest monuments to interracial harmony through civic engagement and muralist training

Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Berlin, Germany

$150,000
to continue support for the Syrian Heritage Archive Project

The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$414,400
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

The Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
New Haven, CT, United States

$492,500
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$530,000
to support Social Practice CUNY, a program to build capacity and deepen offerings to social practice artists and faculty across the CUNY system

The Illusion Theater and School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$300,600
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

The Minnesota Opera
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$500,000
to support an ensemble of locally based artists and the creation and development of new work

The New School
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support a pilot project to bridge politically engaged art, scholarship, and public engagement at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, United States

$370,900
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Theater Mu, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN, United States

$288,700
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Women’s Project and Productions, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$410,700
to support a three-year residency through the National Playwright Residency Program

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA, United States

$1,000,000
to support the reimagination of YBCA as an artist-led institution through “YBCA of the Future” activities

Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc.
Anchorage, AK, United States

$800,000
to support Indigenous programming for social change and community healing

Alonzo King LINES Ballet
San Francisco, CA, United States

$350,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency

American Lyric Theater Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$260,000
to continue support for the Composer Librettist Development Program

Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$600,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Beirut, Lebanon

$150,000
to support the Lebanon Solidarity Fund for emergency response and recovery of cultural organizations in Beirut, Lebanon

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States

$810,000
to support Readying the Museum, a coalition of museum workers and artists organizing to address racial inequities in the museum field through ASU Art Museum

Arts & Design Alumni Research
Austin, TX, United States

$650,000
to support the development of collaborative partnerships and inclusive survey administration for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

Arts Business Collaborative
Woodside, NY, United States

$150,000
to support organizational development and capacity building for Women of Color in the Arts

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, United States

$3,000,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support general operating costs and planning for the Instituto Coreográfico

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$325,000
to support a return to work through dancer pods

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD, United States

$150,000
to support a planning grant for the development of a museum community center and artist incubator

Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$5,000,000
to support The Black Seed, a collaborative national ecosystem for Black theater institutions

CABD, Inc.
Jamaica, NY, United States

$355,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency for Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Center for Cultural Innovation
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$600,000
to support AmbitioUS, an initiative to encourage the development of alternative economies for artists and cultural communities

Center for Curatorial Leadership
New York, NY, United States

$550,000
to support a pilot program to nurture the mid-career paths of curators of color in art museums across the United States, in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem

Center for Curatorial Leadership
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
To support an alumni platform for professional development and engagement

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD, United States

$350,000
to support a series of collaborative prototype projects and experiments

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$200,000
to support planning and capacity-building activities

Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$300,000
to support the California African American Museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA, United States

$500,000
to support interdisciplinary programming for visual and performing arts

Creative Visions Foundation
Malibu, CA, United States

$500,000
to support planning, capacity building, and pilot programming for The Institute of Black Imagination

Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Inc.
Dallas, TX, United States

$824,000
to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Dance Service New York City, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$318,000
to continue support for services to the field

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency

Dance/USA
Washington, DC, United States

$500,000
to continue support for services to the field

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Dayton, OH, United States

$771,000
to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Dorrance Dance Incorporated
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency

El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso, TX, United States

$100,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Emerson College
Boston, MA, United States

$550,000
to continue support for artist residencies

Fresh Meat Productions
San Francisco, CA, United States

$750,000
to support capacity building and leadership development

Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$450,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency for Kinetic Light

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX, United States

$600,000
to support new staff hires and continue support for core programming

Hudson River Museum of Westchester
Yonkers, NY, United States

$200,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$610,000
to continue support of pathways initiatives for musicians from communities underrepresented in concert music professions

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to support ICEensemble collaborations and mentorship of creators and artists

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA, United States

$500,000
to support creative “bubble” residencies

Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County, Inc.
Miami, FL, United States

$2,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$305,000
to support creative “bubble” residencies for Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI, United States

$350,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

La Peña Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley, CA, United States

$810,000
to support change capital, as part of the Foundation's Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$166,000
to continue support of pathways initiatives for musicians from communities underrepresented in concert music professions

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support planning for work with the Creative and Independent Producers Alliance

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$970,000
to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.
North Adams, MA, United States

$500,000
to continue support for artist residencies

McNay Art Museum
San Antonio, TX, United States

$1,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX, United States

$100,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI, United States

$1,000,000
to support implementation of knowledge management infrastructure

Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States

$2,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX, United States

$1,650,000
to support services to the field

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM, United States

$200,000
to support the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV, United States

$747,966
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

New Britain Museum of American Art, Inc.
New Britain, CT, United States

$250,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

New Dance Theatre, Inc.
Denver, CO, United States

$850,000
to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture, and History
New Orleans, LA, United States

$100,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

New York Live Arts, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$200,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency for HopeBoykinDance

Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY, United States

$425,000
to continue support for administration of a recoverable no-interest loan program for Mellon-supported arts and cultural heritage organizations

Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY, United States

$2,500,000
as a program-related investment, to increase the size of a recoverable no-interest loan program for Mellon-supported arts and cultural heritage organizations

Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY, United States

$40,000
to support technical assistance for the conservation center cohort of the Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

Northeast Ohio Center for Choreography
Akron, OH, United States

$750,000
to support the Creative Administrative Residency program

Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA, United States

$2,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association, Inc.
Ashland, OR, United States

$1,000,000
to support the organization’s planned reopening

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$900,000
to continue support for the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR, United States

$580,000
to continue support for artist residencies

PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to support a new director’s vision for a more equitable and participatory museum

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Riverside Art Museum
Riverside, CA, United States

$250,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

Robert Abbe Museum of Stone Age Antiquities
Bar Harbor, ME, United States

$200,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA, United States

$300,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$5,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Carnegie Hall Corporation
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support the National Youth Orchestra 2

The Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
New Haven, CT, United States

$350,000
to support a series of collaborative prototype projects and experiments

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA, United States

$300,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Inc.
Boston, MA, United States

$1,650,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Laundromat Project, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to support anchoring in community and the Create Change artist development program

The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Performance Zone, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$400,000
to support a creative “bubble” residency for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

The Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc.
Tulsa, OK, United States

$731,145
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, United States

$350,000
to support a series of collaborative prototype projects and experiments

The Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, NY, United States

$1,500,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

The Tank, Ltd.
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the creation of a multiuse portable performance space 

Time’s Up Foundation
Encino, CA, United States

$350,000
to support Museums Moving Forward, a program to create a culture of accountability and equity within the museum sector

Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Inc.
Tucson, AZ, United States

$100,000
to support the museum as a recipient of the Art Museum Futures Fund

United States Artists, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States

$5,000,000
to support emergency grants to artists facing dire financial circumstances due to COVID-19 through the Artist Relief Fund

United States Artists, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States

$2,500,000
to support a second round of funding for the Artist Relief Fund

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$1,200,000
to support the Nimoy Theater and local partners

University of Delaware
Newark, DE, United States

$150,000
to support conservation distance learning

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC, United States

$350,000
to support a series of collaborative prototype projects and experiments

Works and Process, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support creative “bubble” residencies

Accion Latina
San Francisco, CA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Council on Library and Information Resources
Arlington, VA, United States

$4,415,000
to support a national grantmaking competition for the digitization of collections of scholarly and cultural importance

Detroit Sound Conservancy
Detroit, MI, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

District Six Museum Foundation
Cape Town, South Africa

$162,000
to support core operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Faulkner Morgan Archive, Inc.
Lexington, KY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Florida International University
Miami, FL, United States

$1,000,000
to support the preservation, creation, and narration of stories about underrepresented communities in South Florida through oral histories, archives development, and digitization

Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Chicago, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Honey Pot Performance
Chicago, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Hula Preservation Society
Kaneohe, HI, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Interference Archive
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$60,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Internet Archive
San Francisco, CA, United States

$1,130,000
to support the development of a nationwide network of public library web archive

Internet Archive
San Francisco, CA, United States

$200,000
to support further research on the use of machine learning and other techniques to help identify and preserve online scholarly journals

Lesbian Herstory Education Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn , NY, United States

$90,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Muscogee Creek Nation
Okmulgee, OK, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$450,000
to support sustainability planning through capacity building for governance, staff, and collections, as well as through the development of a long-range digital strategy

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$600,000
to support a professional development program in digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums

Shorefront
Evanston, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

South Asian American Digital Archive
Philadelphia, PA, United States

$300,000
to continue support for a fellowship program to build a cohort of South Asian American community-based archivists

Stonewall National Museum & Archives, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

$50,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

The National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

University of Delaware
Newark, DE, United States

$70,000
to support the publication of digital exhibits based on case files from the archives of Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, a human rights organization in Guatemala

University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD, United States

$75,000
to support comparative case studies of digital humanities projects in an investigation of sustainability strategies

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, United States

$450,000
to support the use of poetry in audiovisual formats for research and teaching

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada

$800,000
to support an end-to-end service for the preservation, access, and analysis of web archives

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, United States

$44,000
to support a convening of experts to address machine-learning techniques to enhance public access to government records

Visual AIDS for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Visual Communications Media
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia , PA, United States

$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive

Yale University
New Haven, CT, United States

$750,000
to support the continued development of a national software preservation program

American Library Association
Chicago, IL, United States

$2,550,000
to support general operations

Aspiration
San Francisco, CA, United States

$370,000
to support sustainability planning for the Editoria publishing platform

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States

$125,000
to support the preservation of audiovisual cultural heritage materials and increased community access to them

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, United States

$500,000
to support the development of a research model for textual analysis, with the Project on the History of Black Writing as the initial flagship collection

Institute of Museum and Library Services
Washington, DC, United States

$1,500,000
to support materials research for collections care and the reopening of libraries and museums during the COVID-19 pandemic

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States

$410,000
to support sustainability planning for the Public Philosophy Journal

Salem State University
Salem, MA, United States

$66,000
to support a planning grant for assessment and sustainability of a new online, open-access journal “Reviews in Digital Humanities”

Stanford University
Stanford, CA, United States

$2,500,000
to support the further development of an initiative to advance the use of linked open data in academic libraries

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States

$750,000
to support the development of the Fulcrum platform for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN, United States

$750,000
to support the development of the Manifold platform for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States

$600,000
to support the further development of a multi-institutional initiative that would operate services for the identification, matching, and disambiguation of personal and organizational names in archival resources

Washington State University
Pullman, WA, United States

$700,000
to support the sustainability of the Mukurtu Shared platform for collaborative curation of Native American collections in libraries, archives, and museums

Council on Library and Information Resources
Arlington, VA, United States

$2,010,000
to support a postdoctoral fellowship program for data curation in African American and African Studies by extending the existing fellowships by two years

Council on Library and Information Resources
Arlington, VA, United States

$75,000
to support a feasibility study for a large-scale survey of archives held by HBCU libraries

Fisk University
Nashville, TN, United States

$90,000
to support planning activities for a portal that would connect to collections about Julius Rosenwald

Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation
Philadelphia , PA, United States

$600,000
to support a fellowship program for Philadelphia-area activists working with local archives to document and reinterpret acts of resistance

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States

$610,000
to support a collaboration with Princeton University and Historically Black Colleges and Universities libraries to preserve, and make accessible, records of the Colored Teachers Association as an initial phase for the Black Teachers Archive portal

Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$112,500
to support an investigation of needs for teaching with digital cultural heritage materials during the COVID-19 pandemic

Library of Congress
Washington, DC, United States

$15,000,000
to support a multipronged program of outreach, technology innovation, and archives development for, and by, traditionally underrepresented communities

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, United States

$750,000
to support a postdoctoral research program on the incentives and barriers to equitable and open scholarship

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States

$550,000
to support the development of a common data model for sharing archival materials related to the involvement of higher education in legacies of the Transatlantic slave trade

National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Washington, DC, United States

$2,350,000
to support start-up grants for scholarly editions on African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American histories

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL, United States

$200,000
to support the library’s collaboration with tribal communities to improve their access to and use of its Indigenous collections

New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, NM, United States

$970,000
to support the development of a sustainable model for a growing network of community memory labs serving the Indo-Hispano population in rural New Mexico and Colorado

Peace Development Fund
Amherst, MA, United States

$1,330,000
to support a multipronged effort to center the knowledge and languages of marginalized communities on the Internet

Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States

$750,000
to support Project STAND in the development of collaborative models for ethical documentation and teaching with primary resources on student activism

The Alexandria Archive Institute
San Francisco , CA, United States

$610,000
to support a pilot data literacy program for cultural heritage data in the field of archaeology

The Rebus Foundation
Montreal, QC, Canada

$762,000
to support the development of Rebus Ink, a tool designed as a centralized hub for researchers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to work with large sets of written and audiovisual content

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, United States

$750,000
to support new library service models for data-intensive humanities scholarship

University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, United States

$700,000
to support the expansion of a library-centered digital scholarship model, in which digital collections are adapted for computational use through machine learning and other methods

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, United States

$120,000
to support the development of Sourcery, a mobile application for sharing archival materials

ARRAY Alliance, Inc.
Encino, CA, United States

$500,000
to support the Law Enforcement Arts Accountability Project

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY, United States

$1,365,833
to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, United States

$4,000,000
to support Monument Lab’s operational capacity and research

Emmett Till Memorial Commission of Tallahatchie County, Inc.
Sumner, MS, United States

$1,141,750
to support a new memorial to Till and the center’s organizational capacity

Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, Inc.
San Juan, PR, United States

$1,000,000
to support the Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive

Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
San Juan, PR, United States

$2,000,000
to support the development and implementation of the General Archives Digital Collections initiative

MASS Design Group, Ltd.
Boston, MA, United States

$500,000
to support the development of the Public Memory and Memorial Lab

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States

$325,000
to support the Puerto Rico Disaster Archive

The Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$1,165,834
to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

The Constitution Hill Trust
Johannesburg, South Africa

$129,000
to support a strategic planning process for the organizational structure of the anticipated Museum and Archive on Constitution Hill

The National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$1,495,833
to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$150,000
to support the development of the Arthur Ashe Oral History Project, digital archives, and Inspirational Tour exhibit

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$3,650,000
to support the Million Dollar Hoods project, which seeks to archive historical documents, oral histories, and ephemera in order to chronicle the many impacts of policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH, United States

$150,000
to support the development of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Project

US Biennial, Inc.
New Orleans, LA, United States

$2,000,000
to support P.5’s “New Monuments” as well as the first year of projects for “Prospect’s Proposal”—collaborative, post-P.5 projects and programming centering on Tivoli Circle—that continue the conversation around monuments and public space

Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to support the National Student Poets Program

Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States

$300,000
to support the Restore Your Vote program

Federation of State Humanities Councils
Arlington, VA, United States

$1,960,000
to support the development of programming related to civic and electoral participation in a multivocal democracy by State Humanities Councils across the United States and its territories

Flamboyan Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States

$500,000
to support COVID-19 emergency relief efforts for Puerto Rican artists and arts organizations

From the Heart Productions, Inc.
Oxnard, CA, United States

$750,000
to support the development of The Clifton House, a creative space based in the home of Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton, and its initial programming for aspiring and established writers

Museum Associates
Los Angeles, CA, United States

$1,200,000
to support the development of approximately 18 virtual monument projects across Los Angeles County

New York Community Trust
New York, NY, United States

$10,000,000
to support emergency grants to small and midsized New York City–based arts and cultural organizations through the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund

The Andrew Goodman Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to provide general operating support

Tides Foundation
San Francisco, CA, United States

$300,000
to support the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Education Fund

Tufts University
Medford, MA, United States

$500,000
to support the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education’s National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement

Yale University
New Haven, CT, United States

$5,250,000
to support Freedom Reads

Flamboyan Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States

$1,147,500
to support individual fellowships for Puerto Rican writers across genres

The Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States

$150,000
to support the Rapid Response Fund for a Better Digital Future

The Museum for African Art
New York, NY, United States

$750,000
to provide general operating support

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY, United States

$50,000
to support a suite of exhibitions that illuminate the nuances, vibrancy, and importance of American democracy

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY, United States

$450,000
to continue support for the Citizenship Project

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, New York City, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$50,000
to support connect2culture’s Creative Explorations at Home series tailored to engage individuals with dementia and their caregivers

Arts & Minds, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to provide general support 

Early Alzheimer’s Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to provide general support 

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to support artistic programs tailored to engage individuals with dementia and their caregivers

Timeslips Creative Storytelling, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI, United States

$100,000
to provide general support 

City Harvest, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Citymeals-On-Wheels
New York, NY, United States

$400,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Citymeals-On-Wheels
New York, NY, United States

$1,000,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

City University of New York
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to support food security activities on City University of New York campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Food Bank for New York City
New York, NY, United States

$500,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

God’s Love We Deliver
New York, NY, United States

$250,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

God’s Love We Deliver
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Arlington, VA, United States

$500,000
to continue support for “Race Matters,” a reported series broadcast on PBS NewsHour

GrowNYC
New York, NY, United States

$150,000
to provide general support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

GrowNYC
New York, NY, United States

$100,000
to provide general support

Legal Services Corporation
Washington, DC, United States

$150,000
to support a study of the justice gap in the US

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$105,000
to support a planning grant for archives

Candid
New York, NY, United States

$70,000
to provide general support

Nonprofit New York
New York, NY, United States

$75,000
to provide general support

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

$50,000
to support the Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative