Richard King Mellon Foundation

• The Foundation funds through six programmes – conservation, economic development, economic mobility, health and well-being, organisational effectiveness and social-impact investments – so match your work to the right one; economic mobility and health and well-being focus on Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, economic development's priority is Southwestern Pennsylvania, and conservation work spans the United States.
• About eight in ten grants to organisations fall between $50,000 and $550,000, with a median around $230,000, so a request in that range is realistic.
• Apply through the General Application on a rolling basis, or follow the timeline in a Request for Proposals where one applies to your programme.
• Around 70% of grant dollars went to organisations already funded in the two preceding filings, so new applicants may find the Foundation more relationship-led than open-competitive.
• It will not fund applications on behalf of individuals, applications from outside the United States, ideas that include regranting to individuals, or lobbying, advocacy or political causes or events; within Social-Impact Investments only companies incorporated in the United States qualify, and Organizational Effectiveness is limited to organisations with an active grant or funding within the past three years.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Pittsburgh · Toward ten-year support of the university's construction and launch of a facility at hazelwood green to catalyze economic development strategy focused on building facilities for manufacturing cell, gene, and antibody-based therapies to treat human diseases
  $10,000,0002024 tax year
• Carnegie Mellon University · Toward ten-year support of construction of a new building for sciences in oakland
  $7,500,0002024 tax year
• Carnegie Mellon University · Toward four-year support to establish a permanent manufacturing futures institute at hazelwood green
  $7,000,0002024 tax year
• Carnegie Mellon University · Toward ten-year support to construct a robotics innovation center at hazelwood green to accelerate robotics discovery and entreprenuership and to strengthen pittsburgh's economic future
  $5,500,0002024 tax year
• American Prairie Foundation · To acquire multiple properties to assemble a short grass prairie ecosystem reserve in northcentral montana
  $4,500,0002024 tax year
• Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation · To conduct research in infection biology and childhood asthma at upmc childrens hospital and retain outstanding scientists in pittsburgh
  $2,100,0002024 tax year
• The Citizen Science Lab · To expand operations with the creation of the state-of-the-art center for scientific excellence at the historic mlk reading and cultural center in the hill district
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Phoebe Foundation · Toward construction of a new medical tower to house a level ii trauma center, neonatal intensive care unit, and intensive care facility
  $2,000,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.