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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
of
New York City
in the
United States
, is a
private foundation
with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by
Andrew W. Mellon
of the
Mellon family
of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. These foundations were set up separately by
Paul Mellon
and
Ailsa Mellon-Bruce
, the children of
Andrew W. Mellon
. It is housed in the expanded former offices of the
Bollingen Foundation
in
New York City
, another educational philanthropy supported by Paul Mellon.
Earl Lewis
is the Foundation's president. His predecessors have included
Don Randel
,
William G. Bowen
,
John Edward Sawyer
and
Nathan Pusey
. Lewis is the former Provost of
Emory University
. In 2004, the Foundation was awarded the
National Medal of Arts
.
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