Sarah Cordelia Scaife

Sarah Mellon was the niece of Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury during the Great Depression). Along with her brother Richard King Mellon, she was made heir to the Mellon fortune, including Mellon Bank and major investments in Gulf Oil and Alcoa. Her son, Richard Mellon Scaife, is the owner–publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Sarah Scaife founded the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 1941 to assist traditional charitable efforts, such as the Children's Zoo, the Pittsburgh Zoo and tree-planting initiatives throughout the city's 88 neighborhoods.

The family's philanthropic bent often placed it in the center of history.

It was the Sarah Scaife Foundation that provided the original risk capital that allowed Dr. Jonas Salk to build his laboratory and conduct his research into a polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. The foundation gave the doctor two grants, totaling $35,000, in the late 1940s and early 1950s that led to the discovery that eradicated polio.

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