Andrew W. Mellon Foundation donations made to Wellesley College

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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 Wellesley College in our system.

Full donee page for donee Wellesley College

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 51 250,000 359,799 4,000 43,750 50,000 98,000 190,000 250,000 317,000 400,000 500,000 800,000 2,500,000
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities 40 200,000 370,569 4,000 23,000 47,500 55,000 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 700,000 800,000 2,500,000
Diversity 7 250,000 251,714 68,000 68,000 200,000 200,000 200,000 250,000 317,000 317,000 320,000 407,000 407,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage 4 225,000 441,250 190,000 190,000 190,000 225,000 225,000 225,000 500,000 500,000 850,000 850,000 850,000

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 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1996 1995 1992 1989 1987 1985 1983 1981 1976 1971
Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities (filter this donor) 40 14,822,750.00 1,000,000.00 800,000.00 855,000.00 800,000.00 700,000.00 755,000.00 33,500.00 0.00 450,000.00 279,000.00 0.00 74,000.00 165,000.00 43,750.00 4,145,500.00 500,000.00 945,000.00 54,000.00 0.00 300,000.00 350,000.00 250,000.00 525,000.00 700,000.00 348,000.00 750,000.00
Arts and Cultural Heritage (filter this donor) 4 1,765,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 500,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 850,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 225,000.00 190,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Diversity (filter this donor) 7 1,762,000.00 68,000.00 0.00 0.00 317,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 407,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 320,000.00 0.00 200,000.00 200,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 51 18,349,750.00 1,068,000.00 800,000.00 855,000.00 1,117,000.00 1,200,000.00 755,000.00 33,500.00 407,000.00 450,000.00 279,000.00 850,000.00 74,000.00 165,000.00 43,750.00 4,395,500.00 725,000.00 1,455,000.00 54,000.00 200,000.00 500,000.00 350,000.00 250,000.00 525,000.00 700,000.00 348,000.00 750,000.00

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 (51 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 51)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
900,000.0032017-12-07Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/1708-04779/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
68,000.00382017-09-11Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/31700703/-- Program name: Diversity.
100,000.00342017-05-22Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21700127/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
800,000.0052015-12-10Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/41500606/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
800,000.0052014-06-05Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21400627/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
55,000.00392014-05-19Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21400126/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
317,000.00212013-12-05Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/41300685/-- Program name: Diversity.
800,000.0052013-06-06Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21300639/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
700,000.0092012-05-31Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21200664/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
500,000.00112012-05-31Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/21200716/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
55,000.00392011-05-31Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/31100112/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
700,000.0092011-03-10Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/11100668/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
33,500.00472010-09-16Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/31000630/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
407,000.00152009-12-10Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/40900717/-- Program name: Diversity.
100,000.00342008-06-23Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/30800627/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
50,000.00412008-06-23Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/30800628/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
300,000.00222008-03-14Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/10800709/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
23,000.00482005-12-12Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/40500693/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
12,000.00492005-09-17Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/30500636/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
44,000.00452005-09-17Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/30500637/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
200,000.00282005-03-18Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/10500665/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
850,000.0042004-03-19Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/10400637/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
5,000.00502003-08-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/30300624/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
69,000.00372003-06-13Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/20300700/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
165,000.00322002-06-21Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/20200707/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
43,750.00462001-12-27Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/10200608/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
1,500,000.0022000-12-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/40000682/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
2,500,000.0012000-12-15Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/40000686/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
250,000.00252000-06-16Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/20000739/-- Program name: Diversity.
98,000.00362000-06-16Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/20000700/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
47,500.00442000-05-16Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/20000627/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
500,000.00111999-12-17Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49900672/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
225,000.00271999-09-17Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/39900649/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
190,000.00311996-12-06Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49600620/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
475,000.00131996-12-06Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49600641/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
320,000.00201996-12-06Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49600664/-- Program name: Diversity.
420,000.00141996-12-06Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49600630/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
50,000.00411996-06-25Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/39600604/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
4,000.00511995-08-02Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/39500615/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
50,000.00411995-03-29Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/29500603/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
200,000.00281992-12-14Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/49200286/-- Program name: Diversity.
300,000.00221989-10-03Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/38900142/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
200,000.00281989-03-22Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/18900018/-- Program name: Diversity.
350,000.00181987-12-17Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/48700072/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
250,000.00251985-03-28Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/18500073/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
400,000.00161983-10-05Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/38300089/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
125,000.00331983-10-05Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/38300088/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
300,000.00221981-12-16Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/48100084/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
400,000.00161981-03-18Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/18100083/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
348,000.00191976-10-06Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/37600047/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.
750,000.0081971-03-11Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanitieshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/wellesley-college/17100046/-- Program name: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.