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iemanja

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5. The Mellon money also birthed the Mellon Foundation

Reply to Wiz Imp (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 12:08 AM

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which is the largest private humanities funder in the nation. Diversity is a core value of the foundation. Somewhere along the line, there was a decent Mellon.

ETA: The Foundation was set up by Andrew Mellon’s children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_W._Mellon_Foundation

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