Andrew W. Mellon Foundation donations made to National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.

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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 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. in our system.

Full donee page for donee National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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 18 250,000 299,797 36,350 45,000 100,000 180,000 250,000 250,000 280,000 300,000 550,000 750,000 750,000
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities 5 280,000 209,270 36,350 36,350 36,350 135,000 135,000 280,000 280,000 295,000 295,000 300,000 300,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage 1 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000 45,000
Other 12 250,000 358,750 75,000 100,000 180,000 185,000 250,000 250,000 350,000 550,000 600,000 750,000 750,000

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 2001 1998 1996 1995 1993 1992 1989 1988 1985 1984 1981 1980 1978
Other (filter this donor) 12 4,305,000.00 550,000.00 600,000.00 0.00 75,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 515,000.00 350,000.00 180,000.00 1,000,000.00 100,000.00 935,000.00
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities (filter this donor) 5 1,046,350.00 0.00 0.00 280,000.00 0.00 331,350.00 135,000.00 300,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Arts and Cultural Heritage (filter this donor) 1 45,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 45,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 18 5,396,350.00 550,000.00 600,000.00 280,000.00 75,000.00 331,350.00 135,000.00 345,000.00 515,000.00 350,000.00 180,000.00 1,000,000.00 100,000.00 935,000.00

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 (18 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 18)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
550,000.0042001-12-17Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/40100688/-- Program name: Other.
600,000.0031998-10-02Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/39800715/-- Program name: Other.
280,000.0081996-09-20Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/39600664/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
75,000.00161995-06-16Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/29500668/-- Program name: Other.
295,000.0071993-10-08Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/39300247/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
36,350.00181993-10-08Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/39300191/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
135,000.00141992-10-09Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/39200224/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
45,000.00171989-12-14Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/48900207/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
300,000.0061989-03-22Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/18900022/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
250,000.00101988-03-24Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/18800012/-- Program name: Other.
265,000.0091988-03-24Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/18800034/-- Program name: Other.
350,000.0051985-10-02Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/38500056/-- Program name: Other.
180,000.00131984-12-12Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/48400055/-- Program name: Other.
750,000.0011981-12-16Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/48100063/-- Program name: Other.
250,000.00101981-03-18Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/18100068/-- Program name: Other.
100,000.00151980-03-19Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/18000051/-- Program name: Other.
185,000.00121978-10-04Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/37800035/-- Program name: Other.
750,000.0011978-06-07Otherhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/national-bureau-of-economic-research-inc/27800035/-- Program name: Other.