THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART — grant history

Registered charity 313838 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£8.3m
Grants listed (FY2025)
37
Listed grants total
£901k
Accounts grants total
£899k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (20 grantees)
  • Education/training (18 grantees)
  • General Charitable Purposes (6 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
  • Economic/community Development/employment (2 grantees)
  • Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
  • Recreation (2 grantees)
  • Religious Activities (1 grantee)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
  • Throughout London (3 grantees)
  • Throughout England (2 grantees)
  • Italy (1 grantee)
  • Kent (1 grantee)
  • Lambeth (1 grantee)
  • City Of Wakefield (1 grantee)
  • Nottingham City (1 grantee)
  • Nottinghamshire (1 grantee)
  • Southwark (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Nazima JamalFY2025£96kDoctoral Scholarship: Charting the Journey: Mapping the Ways in Which Sheba Feminist Publishers Shaped Black Feminisms and Queer Feminisms in Britain
Author Grants (Large)FY2025£62kGrants to individuals
Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California)FY2025£60kSenior Fellowship: The Art of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire
Exhibition Publication GrantsFY2025£36kGrants to institutions
Orjana RudeloffFY2025£32kMA/MPhil Studentship: Seeds of Invisibility: Interrogating the Intersections of Ecology and Colonialism in Ingrid Pollard’s *Three Drops of Blood*
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & MuseumFY2025£30kCuratorial Research Grant: Tempera Revival and Legacy: A Story to Be Discovered
Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Museum of West African ArtFY2025£30kCollaborative Project Grant: The Broken Heart of the Forest Kingdom: Digital Restitution of the Benin Bronzes to their Eco-Cultural Context
Bishopsgate InstituteFY2025£30kCuratorial Research Grant: The Art of Rachael Field: Lesbian Art, Archives and Tradition (1988–2024)
Household Belfast C.I.C.FY2025£30kCuratorial Research Grant: Critical Domesticities: An Archive of the Home as a Site for Artistic Production in Belfast
The Bowes MuseumFY2025£30kCuratorial Research Grant: Acquisitions in an Altered Landscape: Exploring a Legacy of Extraction and a Future of Ecological Justice at the Bowes Museum
Matrix Archive Group (MAG)FY2025£28kDigital Project Grant: Matrix Open: Curating a Feminist Digital Architecture Archive
Event Support GrantsFY2025£26kGrants to institutions
University of DelawareFY2025£25kConservation Research Project Grant: Conservation, Assessment and Scientific Analysis of Artworks by Simeon Solomon
Computer Arts ArchivesFY2025£25kConservation Research Project Grant: British Cybernetic Art 1965–1975
Junior FellowshipsFY2025£24kGrants to individuals
Research Support GrantsFY2025£24kGrants to individuals
Research Support GrantsFY2025£23kGrants to individuals
Digitisation GrantsFY2025£20kGrants to institutions
Caroline Bressey (University College London)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
Edwin Coomasaru (independent scholar)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926–2024
Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani (University of Edinburgh)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: The Commonwealth of Art and Visual Culture in Postwar Britain, 1948–1978
Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: Landscapes from Below, 1770–1830
Nina Vollenbroker (The Bartlett School of Architecture)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: Hide and Speak: An Architectural History of Deaf Education in Britain (1840–1900)
Alison Bennett (University of Cambridge)FY2025£18kMid-Career Fellowship: African Saints and the Visual and Material Culture of British Churches: A Case Study of the Uganda Martyrs
Event Support GrantsFY2025£18kGrants to institutions
Liverpool John Moores UniversityFY2025£16kDigital Project Grant: “Our Most Beautiful Mechanical Contrivances”: Exhibiting Empire in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool
Sean KetteringhamFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: Postwar Folk: Modernism, Britain, and the Anthropological Imagination
Tobah AuklandFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: British Art and Extraction, 1937–1975
Carly BoxerFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: Pictures of Health: Medicine, The Body, and Its Image in Late Medieval England
Melissa CarlsonFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: Painting Protest: Censorship, Subversion, and the Avant-garde in Socialist Burma (1962-1988)
Theo GordonFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: Viral Landscapes: Art and HIV/AIDS in the UK
Danielle HewittFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: On The Architectural History Of Destruction: A Material History of London’s Bombsite Debris
Alina KhakooFY2025£15kPostdoctoral Fellowship: We Shift You: Art, Infrastructure, Anti-Racism and Feminism in Britain, 1980–97
British School at RomeFY2025£12kRome Fellowship: Residency for Tom Young
Tom Young (The Courtauld)FY2025£7kRome Fellowship: Honorarium for research on “Old Indians” in Italy
Andrew Wyld Research Support GrantsFY2025£4kGrants to individuals
Author Grants (Small)FY2025£3kGrants to individuals
Whitechapel GalleryFY2024£40kCuratorial Research Grants
Compton Verney House CharityFY2024£40kCuratorial Research Grants
Museums NorththumberlandFY2024£36kCuratorial Research Grants
Kingston UniversityFY2024£30kDigital Project Grants
Sir John Sloane's MuseumFY2024£25kConservation Grant
Delaware Art MuseumFY2024£25kCuratorial Research Grants
Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century ArtFY2024£23kDigital Project Grants
The Photographers' GalleryFY2024£21kDigital Project Grants
Camden Art CentreFY2024£20kCuratorial Research Grants
Queen's University, BelfastFY2024£20kCollaborative Project Grants
Queen Mary, University of London & University of AberdeenFY2024£20kCollaborative Project Grants
Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam MuseumFY2024£19kConservation Grant
British School at RomeFY2024£12kRome Fellowship
The Hepworth WakefieldFY2024£10kPublication Grants
Baltic Centre for Contemporary ArtFY2024£7kPublication Grants
Nottingham contemporaryFY2024£7kPublication Grants
Manchester University PressFY2024£7kPublication Grants
University of EdinburghFY2024£6kDigital Project Grants
Oxbow BooksFY2024£6kPublication Grants
Yale University Press LondonFY2024£5kPublication Grants
Drawing RoomFY2024£5kPublication Grants
McGil-Queens' University PressFY2024£5kPublication Grants
National Galleries of ScotlandFY2024£5kPublication Grants
National Museums LiverpoolFY2024£5kPublication Grants
The HunterianFY2024£5kPublication Grants
The Chinese University of Hong Kong PressFY2024£5kPublication Grants
Warwick UniversityFY2024£5kPublication Grants
Whitechapel GalleryFY2024£5kPublication Grants
Studio VoltaireFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
Leeds Museums and GalleriesFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
Mount Stuart TrustFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
Liverpool CathedralFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
Letchworth Heritage FoundationFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
The Stained Glass MuseumFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
Peckham PlatformFY2024£3kEvent Support Grants
V&AFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
Universidad de San Buenaventura CaliFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
The Womens's Art Library (Goldsmith's, University of London UniversityFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
The Photographers' GalleryFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
Pallant HouseFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
Kunsthalle MannheimFY2024£2kEvent Support Grants
Royal Holloway, University of LondonFY2024£1kEvent Support Grants
University of WestminsterFY2024£1kEvent Support Grants
University of YorkFY2024£600Event Support Grants
Museum of the HomeFY2023£37kCuratorial Research Grants
Turner ContemporaryFY2023£35kCuratorial Research Grants
Drawing Room Tannery ArtsFY2023£30kCuratorial Research Grants
TateFY2023£30kDigital Project Grants
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)FY2023£30kCuratorial Research Grants
Four CornersFY2023£30kDigital Project Grants
The Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFY2023£25kConservation Grant
The Royal Academy of ArtsFY2023£22kCuratorial Research Grants
University of LincolnFY2023£20kDigital Project Grants
University of East AngliaFY2023£20kCollaborative Project Grants
Arts Council CollectionFY2023£20kCollaborative Project Grants
British School at RomeFY2023£12kRome Fellowship
The Hepworth Wakefield, in collaboration with A Practice for Everyday LifeFY2023£10kPublication Grants
No Place PressFY2023£8kPublication Grants
Book WorksFY2023£8kPublication Grants
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandFY2023£8kPublication Grants
The Lutterworth PressFY2023£7kPublication Grants
MACKFY2023£5kPublication Grants
Yale University Press LondonFY2023£5kPublication Grants
Tate PublishingFY2023£5kPublication Grants
North Herts CouncilFY2023£5kPublication Grants
Lund Humphries and Royal West of England Academy (RWA)FY2023£3kPublication Grants
Westminster AbbeyFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
University of WolverhamptonFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
Dartington, DevonFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
University of CambridgeFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
Touchstones, RochdaleFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
V&A Wedgwood Collection (Barlaston) and V&A South Kensington (London)FY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
Sky Room, MK Gallery, Milton KeynesFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
Murray Edwards College, CambridgeFY2023£2kEvent Support Grants
London Linnean SocietyFY2023£1kEvent Support Grants
Liverpool University PressFY2023£1kPublication Grants
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT)FY2023£1kEvent Support Grants
Universität BaselFY2023£1kEvent Support Grants
Victorian Society and/or Liverpool University PressFY2023£381Publication Grants

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This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 901483 vs reference 898819 (0.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.