| Williams College | Mellon Professorship | 12/14/72 | $750,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Time Out for Man | 12/14/72 | $2,500 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Huston-Tillotson College | Black Colleges Program | 12/14/72 | $150,000 | Austin, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | University Press Program | 10/24/72 | $150,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Scholarly Publications | 09/19/72 | $250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Fund for Theological Education, Inc. | First-Year Fellowship Program | 09/19/72 | $275,000 | Decatur, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $150,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $75,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $40,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| McGill University | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $40,000 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Higher Learning |
| American Council on Education | Seminars for College Presidents | 09/19/72 | $75,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Catalyst, Inc. | General Support | 09/19/72 | $60,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Dartmouth College | University Press of New England | 09/19/72 | $40,000 | Hanover, NH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery | Endowment | 09/19/72 | $500,000 | San Marino, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The University of Oklahoma | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $75,000 | Norman, OK, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $75,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $100,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York Public Library | Humanities Scholarships | 09/19/72 | $1,000,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Philosophical Society | Andrew W. Mellon Fund | 09/19/72 | $300,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $150,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | University Press Project | 09/19/72 | $40,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Texas at Austin | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $75,000 | Austin, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Pierpont Morgan Library | The Andrew W. Mellon Fund | 09/19/72 | $400,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | University Press Program | 09/19/72 | $40,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
