Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$1,059,396,782

Total expenses

$584,700,649

Contributions and grants received

— not reported

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$475,771,188

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$7,894,931,360

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$555,004,183

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$555,004,183

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the accrual method, under which a grant is recorded when the foundation commits to it rather than when it pays, so the books total need not agree with the cash figures in this section: a grant promised one year and paid in another is counted in different years.

• AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

  $8,556,000

  NEW YORK, NY

  TO SUPPORT THE ADMINISTRATION AND ANNUAL INSTITUTIONAL RENEWALS FOR THE MELLON MAYS UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

• CITY OF RICHMOND

  $7,000,000

  RICHMOND, VA

  TO SUPPORT THE PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, AND INITIAL OPERATIONS OF A CULTURAL SPACE LOCATED AT THE SHOCKOE BOTTOM TRAIN SHED THAT MEMORIALIZES AND COMMEMORATES THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN RICHMOND

• THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN DANCE INC

  $5,600,000

  WASHINGTON, DC

  TO SUPPORT A REGRANTING PROGRAM TO ARTISTS AND COMPANIES DRIVING THE FUTURE OF BLACK DANCE

• FREEDOM READS

  $5,000,000

  HAMDEN, CT

  TO PROVIDE MAJOR RENEWED SUPPORT TO FREEDOM READS AS IT SCALES ITS LIBRARY INSTALLATIONS AND EXPANDS ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY

• WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

  $5,000,000

  BOSTON, MA

  TO SUPPORT THE AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING TO PRESERVE ENDANGERED PUBLIC MEDIA HOLDINGS AT SCALE FOR FUTURE ACCESS AND USE

• MONTPELIER FOUNDATION

  $4,282,000

  MONTPELIER STATION, VA

  TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF A MEMORIAL TO THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE ENSLAVED AT MONTPELIER

• MONUMENT LAB

  $4,000,000

  PHILADELPHIA, PA

  TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF THE RE:GENERATION PROGRAM, FIELD BUILDING, NARRATIVE CHANGE WORK, AND GENERAL OPERATIONS

• LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION

  $3,950,000

  LOS ANGELES, CA

  TO SUPPORT THE SEMI-PERMANENT INSTALLATION OF A MONUMENT TO SOUTH CENTRAL

• NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES

  $3,500,000

  WASHINGTON, DC

  TO SUPPORT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE ACTION FUNDS GRANTMAKING, PROGRAMS, MARKETING, EXPANDED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR PROSPECTIVE GRANTEES, AND THREE SIGNATURE PRESERVATION PROJECTS

• FIDELITY CHARITABLE

  $3,485,813

  CINCINNATI, OH

  MATCHING GIFT

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Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2024

Filed

10 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202523189349104752

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