New Generations Program

Funders

The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (www.ddcf.org) is to improve the quality of people’s lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke’s properties. The foundation’s assets currently total approximately $2 billion. Since 1997, the foundation’s Arts Program has committed approximately $163 million in grants to supporting artists in the contemporary dance, jazz and theatre fields, and the nonprofit organizations that nurture, produce and present them.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org) is a private philanthropic institution with assets of approximately $5.3 billion; AWMF makes grants on a selective basis to institutions of higher education, independent libraries, centers for advanced study, museums, art conservation, and performing arts organizations. The foundation’s Performing Arts program focuses on achieving long-term results by providing multi-year grants to leading organizations in the disciplines of music, theatre, and dance. Annual giving in the area of the performing arts has averagedapproximately $19.8million per year since 2004, not including approximately $20 million in disaster recovery relief grants made to New York based performing arts organizations in the wake of September 11, 2001. In 2004 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was awarded a National Medal of Arts.