# Sarah Mellon Scaife **Sarah Mellon Scaife** (1903–1965) was the daughter of Richard B. Mellon and the mother of [[Richard Mellon Scaife]] and [[Cordelia Scaife May]]. She established the **[[Sarah Scaife Foundation]]** in 1941 — the philanthropic vehicle her son later transformed into a flagship engine of conservative-movement funding. Her own giving was largely conventional charity; the foundation's ideological turn came after her. > Status: **stub** — expand her life and the foundation's pre-conservative era.