Andrew W. Mellon Foundation donations made to Lehigh University

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_W._Mellon_Foundation
Facebook username MellonFoundation
LinkedIn username the-andrew-w--mellon-foundation
Websitehttps://mellon.org/
Donations URLhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/
Twitter usernamemellonfdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://mellon.org/about/mission/
Grant application process pagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grantmaking-policies-and-guidelines/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/mellon-foundation

Brief history: https://mellon.org/about/history/

Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: https://mellon.org/programs/

Full donor page for donor Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Lehigh University in our system.

Full donee page for donee Lehigh University

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 21 225,000 341,286 5,000 28,000 90,000 100,000 140,000 225,000 295,000 370,000 670,000 744,600 1,400,000
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities 19 200,000 345,895 5,000 19,000 50,000 100,000 120,000 200,000 275,000 555,400 680,000 800,000 1,400,000
Past Programs 2 295,000 297,500 295,000 295,000 295,000 295,000 295,000 295,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Total 2016 2014 2012 2009 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 1999 1993 1990 1989 1981 1976 1972
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities (filter this donor) 19 6,572,000.00 100,000.00 800,000.00 680,000.00 1,400,000.00 605,400.00 28,000.00 219,000.00 140,000.00 460,000.00 790,000.00 5,000.00 0.00 275,000.00 100,000.00 225,000.00 744,600.00
Past Programs (filter this donor) 2 595,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 295,000.00 300,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 21 7,167,000.00 100,000.00 800,000.00 680,000.00 1,400,000.00 605,400.00 28,000.00 219,000.00 140,000.00 460,000.00 790,000.00 5,000.00 295,000.00 575,000.00 100,000.00 225,000.00 744,600.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (21 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 21)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
100,000.00152016-05-23Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/21600118/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
800,000.0022014-12-04Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/41400640/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
680,000.0042012-12-06Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/41200708/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
1,400,000.0012009-03-13Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/10900678/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
555,400.0062007-10-03Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/30700681/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
50,000.00182007-06-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/20700662/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
28,000.00192005-07-25Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/30500615/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
200,000.00122004-06-11Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/20400691/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
19,000.00202004-02-23Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/10400614/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
140,000.00132003-06-13Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/20300688/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
370,000.0072002-06-21Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/20200723/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
90,000.00172002-03-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/10200712/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
670,000.0051999-12-17Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/49900704/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
120,000.00141999-05-18Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/29900667/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
5,000.00211993-06-07Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/29300081/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
295,000.0091990-12-10Past Programshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/49000286/-- Program name: Past Programs.
275,000.00101989-06-12Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/28900110/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
300,000.0081989-03-22Past Programshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/18900007/-- Program name: Past Programs.
100,000.00151981-10-07Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/38100061/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
225,000.00111976-06-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/27600031/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
744,600.0031972-12-14Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lehigh-university/47200031/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.