Andrew W. Mellon Foundation donations made to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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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 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in our system.

Full donee page for donee Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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 17 362,000 536,924 5,000 25,000 100,000 250,000 250,000 362,000 545,000 750,000 875,000 1,270,000 1,750,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage 13 362,000 541,362 5,000 29,200 100,000 146,500 250,000 362,000 500,000 750,000 875,000 1,270,000 1,750,000
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities 1 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000
Scholarly Communications 3 545,000 688,333 306,000 306,000 306,000 306,000 545,000 545,000 545,000 1,214,000 1,214,000 1,214,000 1,214,000

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 2013 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2000 1999 1989 1984 1981 1980 1979 1978 1971
Arts and Cultural Heritage (filter this donor) 13 7,037,700.00 1,750,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 1,270,000.00 0.00 362,000.00 750,000.00 29,200.00 1,125,000.00 500,000.00 100,000.00 750,000.00 0.00 146,500.00 5,000.00
Scholarly Communications (filter this donor) 3 2,065,000.00 0.00 1,214,000.00 0.00 306,000.00 0.00 545,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities (filter this donor) 1 25,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 25,000.00 0.00 0.00
Total 17 9,127,700.00 1,750,000.00 1,214,000.00 250,000.00 306,000.00 1,270,000.00 545,000.00 362,000.00 750,000.00 29,200.00 1,125,000.00 500,000.00 100,000.00 750,000.00 25,000.00 146,500.00 5,000.00

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 (17 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 17)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
1,750,000.0012013-10-03Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/31300645/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
1,214,000.0032008-06-13Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/20800631/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
250,000.00112007-12-11Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/40700654/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
306,000.00102006-12-15Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/40600662/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
1,270,000.0022005-06-17Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/20500694/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
545,000.0072004-10-01Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/30400658/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
362,000.0092002-12-16Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/40200649/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
750,000.0052000-06-16Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/20000758/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
29,200.00151999-12-17Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/49900620/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
875,000.0041989-10-03Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/38900203/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
250,000.00111989-06-12Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/28900091/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
500,000.0081984-12-12Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/48400052/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
100,000.00141981-12-16Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/48100062/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
750,000.0051980-12-17Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/48000045/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
25,000.00161979-10-03Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/37900068/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
146,500.00131978-12-13Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/47800031/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
5,000.00171971-06-22Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/museum-of-fine-arts-boston/27100034/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.