Since 1947, the Richard King Mellon Foundation has invested in visionaries who seek to advance the competitive future and quality of life of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and to protect, preserve and restore America’s environmental heritage.
Effective and sustainable partners are key to solving complex social, economic, and environmental challenges, yet the nonprofit and public sector has chronically underfunded investments in organizational capacity. The Foundation aims to fund partners so that they will have the organizational strength and agility to pursue big ideas and take risks in service of accelerating achievement of their strategic priorities.
Grants are awarded to organizations and programs focused on:
esse excepteur sint quis eu fugiat elit enim laborum nulla sunt quis in qui anim culpa mollit eiusmod ut proident dolor do laboris do id nulla consectetur occaecat laborum non ut ad commodo cupidatat nostrud